An extract from the Edinburgh Evening Post, Wednesday 07 November 1832. Mr. WALTER THORNBURN was angling in the Tweed last week, and hooked a salmon at a place called the New Water, below Innerleithen. The fish proved remarkably camstairy from the beginning, refusing and despising all in manner of control. In short, he would neither […]

We decided to spend the first night of our honeymoon (heading for Orkney) at the historic Crook Inn. It turned out hilarious. The place was locked up for the night and a very disgruntled gentleman eventually opened the door. He then proceeded to treat us as if we were on a dirty night away! Which […]

In 1978 I was called by the Langhaugh shepherd to help drag 150 Blackface sheep down to shelter. They were not able to move because they were weighed down by huge ice balls on their fleeces. We cut the ice off with a Swiss Army knife and dragged them down to a stell to shelter […]

As part of Connecting Threads river-wide creative project Being a River, a series of five creative workshops will be held in the Upper Tweed exploring art, water, sensation and connection in and around the riverside at Drumelzier. Over five Thursday afternoons, explore how the river reflects our experiences through its flow, stillness, turbulence and depth. […]

Look out for Destination Tweed and Tweed Stories at the Merlindale Nature Festival! We’ll be there to chat about our projects, sharing stories about ecology and the river, and we’ll have the opportunity for you to share a story, special place or memorable moment with us and add it to our growing community archive. At […]

Mary Johnstone and Peggy Ferguson share their memories of Peebles in the 1920s and 30s which were recorded in the early 2000s and are reproduced here by kind permission of The Tweeddale Society from their 2005 publication ‘Peebles Remembered’. Whitie’s Books and Crafts in Peebles have copies. Mary, We swam in the Tweed. It was […]