February 2012
9 posts
A Father's Loss to Cholera, 1832
I stumbled on a sad story today, but one which shows the real cost of the Cholera epidemic in 1832. Its easy to read about the outbreaks of Cholera in the 19th century in a clinical historical sense and it can be difficult apart from finding the numbers of deaths to finding out how it affected an individual family, to find out the real human cost.
Thomas Ternant, a Gardener living in Coldstream,...
First Visit to Kelso Library
On Friday, we met with the staff at Kelso Library to discuss future exhibitions as part of a rolling programme to make the Kelso Archive accessible for a wider audience. Our colleagues at Duns Museum are also involved in the project, which highlights the strengths of local partnership working.
The Kelso Archive Collection is one of the most important held at the Hub. It provides a unique insight...
Walkerburn Mills
Recently, we spent a highly productive and enjoyable morning working on a project with a colleague from Arts Development.
They are developing a programme, which uses traditional song and other active learning approaches to bring to life Walkerburn’s industrial heritage for young people in the local primary school (P1 to 3 & P4 to 7 classes).
As we hold the Ballantyne (Walkerburn Mills)...
A trip to Eyemouth prompts some musings!
Today we went to Eyemouth to pick up the records that the Eyemouth Harbour Trust Board have decided to deposit with us. This will be a great collection to get cataloguing as it details the life of the harbour - which is still a fishing port today!
Before we left we had a quick search to see if we could find an interesting, amusing story to inspire our trip and came accross a volume on google...
Lest we forget
We had a really interesting email today from Gerry Graham, Honorary Secretary of the Hawick Archaeological Society, in connection with our Olympics project.
Gerry enclosed an article about Ivan Laing from Hawick who scored the first ever hockey goal in the Olympics. He is commemorated every year with a hockey match between the senior boys and senior girls of Hawick High School and local...
Archives and Olympics – starting local, thinking...
Border sporting greats of yesteryears are about to enter the arena once more, only this time in the form of an education resource.
We’re currently busy developing a pack of archive newspaper reports to support schools delivering sport-themed projects in this Olympic year.
Via David Ferguson, chief rugby writer, The Scotsman, we were able to track down Henry Gray, manager of Eyemouth leisure...
Jimmie Guthrie rides again
We’re currently helping Burnfoot Primary School to resource a really interesting project on Hawick Historical figures, starring Jimmie Guthrie, Hawick’s racing legend, Isobel Baillie (Hawick’s bright eyed soprano, who performed live at the Hollywood Bowl) and many, many more.
This is entirely in tune with Curriculum for Excellence’s aspirations to offer personalisation and choice in learning...
Border Horrible Histories Exhibition
Posted by: Keith
We're in Who Do You Think You Are Magazine!
Just so you know! We’re featured in this month’s Who Do You Think You Are Magazine.
As a result of this one of our regular archive users came bounding in to tell us that she was delighted to find her great-great grandparents marriage (Robert Kinghorn and Janet Patterson July 1828) shown on a digitised document (Smailholm Kirk Register of Collections and Mortcloths May 1822 - May...