Ian Brunton shared memories of Peebles in the 1930s, which were recorded in the early 2000s. They 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. Every August, the boys would wait anxiously for the time when the mill dams […]

Willie Euman shared memories of Peebles in the 1930s, 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. There was a stretch east of Tweed Bridge on the north bank of the […]

Peebles Bowling Club meets on Mondays and Thursdays and finishes at 12.15. I am a full time carer for my wife, but I go to the bowling club then cycle across the Peebles rugby fields and hide my bike in the wood. Then I sit beside the river, opposite Kings Meadow woodland, with my Book […]

Happy memories where waters meet… Skimming stones where the Biggar Water joins the Tweed [just north of Drumelzier] Swimming at Merlin’s Grave, where the Powsail Burn and the Tweed meet [also north of Drumelzier] Walking along the prom with Great Aunt Betty [at Berwick, where the Tweed meets the sea] Ingrid asked: Tributaries in Scotland […]

There are different ways of enjoying the waters in Merlindale, according to these locals. Boating on the field – when our grandson was little and the river flooded the fields here, we would put him in the rubber dinghy to paddle around on the floodwaters because we knew it was safe! My favourite swimming spot […]

Icebergs on the Tweed During the hard winter of 2010 I was driving into Kelso and was astonished to see little icebergs floating down the river! I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, but I think the council was clearing the snow from the roads upriver and tipping it into the Tweed. An unexpected arrival […]