News
Programme of Events for 2013/14
The Society is pleased to announce a new programme of events for the rest of 2013 and through to 2014. These can be viewed on the 'Events' part of the website. The Society's annual subscription is now £6, payable in January. Visitors continue to be charged £1. Talks are held in the Eildon Centre, Victoria
Shrumpton’s Cave and the name Shrimpton
Anyone interested in this is invited to have a look at 'Historic Documents' in the 'Projects' part of the website. Local historians are supposed to know all the answers, but in reality they don't. Help!
Piper Bell at the Menin Gate
Three committee members of the Coldstream and District Local History Society (Will Murray, Trevor Swan and Gerald Tait) and three friends (Robert Bell, Kenny Brodie and Barry Gold) travelled last week to the Somme Great War Battlefields in France and to Ypres, the centre of the Ypres Salient, another heavily damaged area in Flanders during
Extension to website
The Society has agreed to invest further in the website by setting up functionality to record headstone transcriptions in the Birgham, Leitholm, Eccles, West Learmouth, Branxton and Swinton church/kirk yards. Details will gradually appear in the coming months.
New Society Hon Sec
This is Lynne Burgess who has taken over from Ann Hutchinson. The Society is very grateful for the work carried out by Ann in the past few years.
Talks and Field Trips – late 2013/Early 2014
The Society committee met last night and drew up a very interesting programme of talks commencing in the autumn of 2013 and finishing in the early summer of 2014. Watch this space.
17th and 18th Centuries – Life in Coldstream and District
Sometimes it is good to reflect on days gone-by and recently a piece of work on life in Coldstream in the 17th and 18th centuries has been reviewed. Have a look under 'Projects' and 'Historic Documents'.
Snippets from old Newspapers
5th May 1871, Census Returns, Inhabited Houses 457, uninhabited Houses 37, Males 1196, Females 1421, Children age 3-13 attending school 360. Windowed rooms 2016 “The window tax” Shops 63. Population in 1851 3245. 1861 2823. 1871 2617
James IV Sword, Dagger and Ring and ‘Borderers Return’ Project
There has always been doubt that the sword, dagger and ring deposited in the College of Arms in Queen Victoria Street, London, are the real thing. The College admits that they have no real evidence and the Royal Armouries suggest that both the sword and dagger are of a later period and the ring has
Historic Memorials of Coldstream Abbey
We have found an old document which belonged to Alastair Brown-Scott and it describes an account of Coldstream Abbey of 1850. The original version is lodged in Coldstream Library. On this website, If you look into 'Projects', then 'Historic Documents', then 'Historical Memorials of Coldstream Abbey', you will find some scanned images of the history of
King James IVs Body
The Secretary of the Flodden 1513 Club has written to both the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and the Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club to ask if the Club and 'Scotland' can install a plaque somewhere appropriate in Old Deer Park where James's body was last seen in 1513 and the turn to 1514. Old