Tweed Stories
Tweed Stories is a growing online archive of stories, memories and special places submitted by communities who live, work and travel along the river, collected as part of the Destination Tweed project.
It celebrates the nature and history of this iconic river, from source to sea, with new stories uploaded every week!
Discover our Tweed Stories and your treasured places below, or use the search boxes to find particular themes or places of interest to you.
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Many countries are separated from each other by a border which is ...
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Rally in the valley I have very many happy memories of marshalling ...
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Moffat Munchies As a family we stopped in Moffat on our way ...
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Growing up along the banks of the River Tweed, the river has ...
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Not many people know that two people with ancestors from Kelso were ...
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Once upon a time (and until the Division of Wark Common in ...
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I knew a local who used to do an awful lot of ...
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When I was 12 or 13 we had this new teacher who ...
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The Mill Dam was emptied once a year at the Annual Mill ...
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We have many memories of family walks along the river. One I ...
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We very often walked along the Tweed at Peebles, through the park ...
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We had friends who lived in Peebles, having moved there from Edinburgh ...
Help us build the Tweed Stories archive!
The River Tweed has inspired generations, and now we’d love to add your story. Submit your story to help us celebrate the River Tweed and its people, places and history.