I think what happened was that my grandfather, going for a walk on a Sunday afternoon, saw the deposits of sand and gravel up at Neidpath Castle. He must have thought about it and approached the Earl of Wemyss and they made an arrangement that he could take as much as he wanted for £10 […]

Tweedsmuir Kirk stands in the small, scattered community of Tweedsmuir, just off the A701. To reach it from the main road, cross the river Tweed at Carlowse Brig, and then take a left at the crossroads, which takes you down the lane, through the village of Tweedsmuir past the kirk to the car park. The […]

Circus parade My mother-in-law remembered circuses on the village green in Norham in the 1930s, and parades of elephants – chained together – arriving from Berwick! Misty memory A foggy damp February morning with Vicar Rob beside the river in Norham for the annual Pedwell Prayer An exciting sighting Spotting egrets at the Lees beat […]

Crystal from Australia drew this brilliant picture of her garden adventure with her mummy in sunny Peebles. Thank you, Crystal, for posting your story in our Tweed Stories postbox while it was at the Go Tweed Valley Information Centre in Peebles. Find out what else you can see and do in the area at the […]

Isabel and Peggy, who grew up in Peebles in the 1920s and ‘30s, have fond memories of foraging for summer fruits. Isabel: When we were young, we swam in the river – that’s where we spent our summer holidays as children. We were thrown out in the morning by our parents and just played in […]

There is a memorial in the shape of a cairn beside the A701 travelling to Moffat, before the Devil’s Beef Tub. It was erected in 1931 at the behest of the then Tweedsmuir Minister, Rev Dr Crockett, on the centenary of the tragic event that it commemorates. Rev Crockett had known an old man who, […]