Extract from an interview with Maureen Thornborrow who remembers growing up near the Fruid reservoir and attending Tweedsmuir Primary School. If you’ve never been up to Fruid, you should go for a look and see where I grew up. And then subsequently all my children grew up after that. A wonderful playground, it’s very remote […]

I moved to the Scottish Borders for college from North Wales and soon found work on both Mossfennan and Drumelzier Place…very enjoyable place to work with my dog Nel.

Drumelzier is a special place where my family roots are and the Tweed provides the backdrop. My father was born at Drumelzier Place Farm around 1914. The Browns lived all around the area, Tweedsmuir, Drumelzier, Broughton, Biggar. Lovely memories spending holidays there with grandparents. I learned to swim in the River Tweed.

Writer John Mackay Wilson (1804-35), who was born and lived in Tweedmouth, returned to his hometown to take up the role of Editor to The Berwick Advertiser in 1832. Two years later, he started publication of his Tales of the Borders, which became international bestsellers for the best part of 120 years. Sadly, Wilson died […]

While building the dam, a crane fell on top of where I was standing! At the last minute I saw it falling and managed to evade it falling on top of me. After two years the dam was completed at Tweedsmuir.

A little past the Beef Tub, near the head of the Cross Burn, on the A701 heading towards Tweedsmuir, is the Postie Stone. It commemorates the lives of John Goodfellow, a coach driver, and James McGeorge, a coach guard. These two good friends were taking the mail coach from Dumfries to Edinburgh in February 1831. […]