The village has a thriving HISTORY GROUP but we need your help. We are always looking for information about the village and its former residents.
Do you have any old photos, postcards or anything else that you feel is important and could be shown?
We will scan anything and return the original.
If you feel you can help please contact any of the people listed below
Susan Latheron 01890 818573
Linda Gray 01890 818474
Mark Kinghorn 01890 818467
Chirnside History Group would like to hold a small exhibition displaying photographs and memorabilia from the village's past.
If anyone has any items that they would be prepared to loan for the exhibition could they please call George Brown on 10890 818374, email the site by clicking the link in the bottom of this page.
All such items will be treated with care.
We would be particularly interested if anyone has any photographs, etc. related to the Italian/German prisoner of war camps sited near to the village towards the end of the Second World War.
If you have any photographs showing views of the village from the past and would be happy for them to appear on this page please email them to the site.
For information on Chirnside from the 1930s to 1960s, visit this website (opens in new window)
2011/2012 PROGRAMME
September 19th – Chris Ledgerd – Chaplaincy in
the Armed Forces
October 17th - Sandra Gann – History of the
National Parks
November 21st – Laurie Petit -Cromwell was here
December - No meeting
January 16th - Bob Higham- Celtic Connections
February 20th - Linda Bankier - History of Berwick through the archives
March 19th Dinah Iredale– Dondagers
April 16th – Alick Hay – History of Duns Castle and
the Hay Family
May 21 – Peter Maule – Brewing in the Borders.
This picture has been printed from a glass negative taken in about
1908. It is a view of the back of the paper mill showing the
footbridge over the Pen Brig.
Thanks to Bob Thomson, who found the glass plate, for permission to
use this image.
The Parish Church
The original mill buildings form part of Ahlstrom's modern factory
The Doocot