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Coldstream's Heritage Ltd, a Community Interest Company set up to conserve and research the medieval Lennel kirk, is hosting a coffee morning in the British Legion next Saturday (7th) at 10:30am. Donations of bakes and raffle prizes would be greatly appreciated, as would volunteer help. Donations can be deposited with Trevor Swan, Will Murray or

We must thank Eric for a wonderful talk on Wark Castle etc at the December history evening. Eric is a very good speaker, funny, serious, interesting etc. Thanks Eric and have a good Christmas.

In the past three months, we were experiencing problems with the website in terms of it occasionally being 'down', some sections 'down' or war memorial and grave headstone photos missing. Trevor Swan has led on rectifying these problems and it looks as if we have overcome them. We hope you enjoy the website.

We are experiencing some problems with the hosting plan and attempting to resolve these.

August and September saw many hours of volunteering in conducting tonnes of rubble and soil clearing, exposing buried memorials, kirk entrances and steps and the exercise, supervised by Richard Carlton and his team of colleagues from The Archaeological Practice Ltd of Newcastle upon Tyne, has been a success in confirming that the kirk, built in

The autumn/winter/spring series of talks started last Thursday evening and continue through to May next year. Please refer to the Events section to see what’s happening. The annual subs are £10 or if you just want to attend talks, £2 per talk. the talks are held in the Comunity Center Coldstream

Grateful thanks are extended to David Welsh of Morebattle for a splendid talk on the 1851 census of Coldstream. This took place last thursday evening in front of a packed hall.

The society is extremely grateful to the Hudson Hirsel Fund for an £860 grant towards upgrading this website etc. Unfortunately the hosting plan is with a computer firm that doesn't answer the telephone or e-mails and the site is occasionally showing http/error messages. For example, sometimes the war memorial section cannot be opened. Hopefully, this a

The project has now started with a Conservation Architect and Archaeologist appointed. The archaeology is first and the planned programme is:- 25th August – rubble clearance 31st August – Geophysical Survey Late September/Early October – Trenching. Coldstream's Heritage – Community Interest Company is looking for more archaeology volunteers.  Coincidentally, research into the history of the

Through Community Trust and History Society volunteers, the steps leading down to Jacob's Well have been laid with good gravel, making them tidier and safer. The path to the seat beside the river has also been cleared. It looks like the Woodland Trust, the owner of the woodland area, is going to work in partnership

The Coldstream and District Local History Society is very busy just now and amongst several initiatives is start of the Autumn/Winter monthly talks. Details of these – held every first Thursday in the month – can be found on the website www.coldstreamhistorysociety.co.uk. The first one is on Thursday 1st October at 7:30pm in the Eildon