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Ruth Williamson of Lennel village has kindly donated a quality bench to be installed in better weather inside Lennel kirk. The conserved site, during summers, is expected to witness a steady flow of visitors. We are confident the seat will be regularly used and appreciated. Thanks Ruth.

Our kindred body, Coldstream's Heritage Ltd (CHL), has some spare cash from the Lennel kirk project and is envisaging a visitor information board at the Braeheads overlooking the river Tweed, a very popular stopping-off point for visitors. As well as highlighting visitor facilities in Coldstream, the board will also inform visitors of history and the

Headstone found in the wall at Yardford fishing shiel at West ord.    It has been taken out of the wall the last time we looked. We have no idea where it is now.

The Society extends its thanks to Bob Higham for a very interesting talk last Thursday on the Borderline. He had, along with family, walked the whole length of the current border, from the Solway to the North Sea. As Bob described the experience of his staged walk, he alluded to quite a bit of history

Talk by David Welsh.

For a fascinating talk and presentation on 5th October on 'The History of Luke's Brae'.

The project is complete and details can be found under the Lennel Kirk Project.

Martha Andrews is very much thanked for giving an excellent talk at the history society last Thursday. Her talk was on Norham and district and was particularly well supported by excellent power point photos. Thanks Martha. Martha must like us as she has joined our committee!

Thanks are extended to Peter Munroe on a splendid talk at the history society on 2nd February. His enlightening talk was on 'Treasure and a Coldstream Lad'.  

Today, Coldstream's Heritage Ltd (Community Interest Company) is 'borrowing' the history society website to do three things:- 1) to alert volunteers that further archaeology will commence either in early or mid-March; 2) the stonemasonry repairs will be commenced on 3rd April by a firm from Blyth called Team-Force Restoration Ltd; and 3) we want to

Grateful thanks are extended to Aileen Orr of Hutton for her wonderful talk last night on the famour bear of World War II. In front of a good audience Aileen never used any notes and talked spendidly about the famous Wojtek and the impact the bear had on the military. It was a wonderful presentation