Coutts Marjoribanks They didn’t expect their loving son to change so dramatically when they sent him to discover himself in the new colony. Discarding the fame of aristocracy for the life of the often romanticized wild west, Coutts Marjoribanks (pronounced Marchbanks) would become a cowboy. His story will be told when O’Keefe Ranch holds its
Our kindred society, Coldstream Community Trust, is running a very valuable community energy switch from 4th August to save households money on energy bills and raise money for the activities of the Trust. Households can be anywhere in the UK, they need not be in the Coldstream area. Here is the detail:- FOR HOUSEHOLDS –
A public meeting on 28th May was attended by 25 interested parties and 6 people gave their apologies. A note of the meeting is attached and self-explanatory.
As a result of the work carried out by the History Society at Lennel Kirkyard in transcribing headstone details into this website, it is being nominated by Historic Scotland for a national award, the Scottish Heritage Angel Award.The Scottish Heritage Angel Awards are supported by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. They were established in 2014.
Thanks are extended to David Welsh for his talk last Thursday evening on the Scotch Haugh and Baa Green. Any local wishing more information on this strange quirk of the Border line, there is reference to it in the history book on Coldstream 'Second to None: A History of Coldstream'.
A Community Trust volunteer and a History Society volunteer have today surfaced Jacob's Well on the site near the Coldstream Bridge. It took some digging out – soil, wild garlic shoots, stones and awkward roots. If you are visiting the site, watch that the walkway is in need of repair and moved away from the
A John Evans has written an excellent book on Patrick Brydone and here is the book's introduction: Born near Berwick upon Tweed in the Scottish Borders, and the son of a Church of Scotland minister, Patrick Brydon served as a second lieutenant in the Seven Years' War, returning from Portugal in 1763. Hearing that other
James has to be thanked for his wonderful talk on the life of Eric Liddell, the Olympic athlete and religious man, whose mother was born in Paxton. James had very few notes and obviously knew his subject very well. Eleanor Moffat introduced James and Trevor Swan did the vote of thanks for a very engaging
Please open the above title of this news. The Coldstream Community Trust is taking the lead on this project but it will have interest for this society. Gerald Tait of the Trust and the Society and Trevor Swan of the Society met officials of Historic Scotland (HS) on site on 23rd January 2015. Robin Kent,
Historic Scotland is sending representatives to meet Community Trust officials at Lennel kirkyard on Friday 23rd January. These include a grants expert, a scheduled and ancient monuments expert and case officer. HS seem interested in repairing and restoring to some semblance of order the old lennel kirk, built in 1120 and last used in 1705,
Thanks are extended to Clive for his excellent talk last night on Queens, Camp Followers and Women of Flodden.
The Coldstream Community Trust obtained a grant to carry out a feasibility study of the old Lennel Kirk which is now in a dilapidated state. The study was carried out on 16th December 2014 and the report is currently with the Trust. The study was funded by Historic Scotland (HS) and it appears that HS
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