A Celebration of Newstead’s unique history and heritage. Nestled between the Eildon Hills and the River Tweed, the Newstead Sundials Festival is a celebration that brings together our community and visitors to consider the passage of time through our unique settlement. The festival will be a vibrant tapestry of music, workshops, stories, food, and community […]

Join Buglife Conservation Officer Kate O’Leary for a day of plug planting to help improve local wildflower meadows for biodiversity! Works will begin at Priorswalk Park before walking to Melrose Parish Church for more plug planting. Light refreshments will be provided and sturdy footwear and suitable outdoor clothing is recommended. To register your interest, please […]

Join the Uncovering the Tweed team for an excavation of a possible moated site at Fairnilee, Galashiels. Site hours will be between 10am and 3pm. Sign up for a day or two to try it out or come for the whole week! They recommend signing up for a series of consecutive days if you are […]

Join photographers Zoe Hamill and Kat Gollock at the final event of their project, Terra Incognita. Through walking, photography, writing and gathering, photographers Zoe Hamill and Kat Gollock seek to create alternative maps of the middle section of the River Tweed by collecting and marking the lesser-heard memories and stories that are housed within its […]

Join photographers Zoe Hamill and Kat Gollock at the third event in their new project, Terra Incognita. Through walking, photography, writing and gathering, photographers Zoe Hamill and Kat Gollock seek to create alternative maps of the middle section of the River Tweed by collecting and marking the lesser-heard memories and stories that are housed within […]

James Valentine, working for his family company, took some of the earliest photographs of the Tweed in the 1860’s.