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2.3.09 - Tornado comes to Berwick. Tornado, the first steam locomotive to be built in Britain for fifty years travelled north through Berwick attracting hundreds of people and acted as a curtain-raiser to the year's festival. |
13.5.09 - The Royal Border Bridge lighting trials begin. One possible legacy of the Stephenson 150 Festival is the illumination of the Royal Border Bridge, hopefully in 2010 its 160th anniversary. The image below is an artist’s impression of what it might look like. This would act as a beacon to travellers and reinvent the bridge as a modern icon, putting Berwick on the map. and could change colour or possibly ‘chase’ trains across the bridge!
The project is very aware of environmental and other concerns the public might have. The lights would be extremely efficient and inexpensive to run. For a variety of reasons this project would not go ahead if there were any objections from interested parties and the funding for this proposal has yet to be sourced. Please contact us:- |
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Brief Encounter Missed this? Come to our other film nights.
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21.5.09 First Stephenson 150 Film Night - Brief Encounter
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Crossing the Tweed is open 1pm - 4pm, every day (except Wednesdays) until 29th September |
28.5.09 Main Guard exhibition Crossing the Tweed open. Members of Berwick Civic Society and other invited guests attend a preview evening at the superb exhibition, Crossing the Tweed, by Berwick Civic Society in Berwick's Main Guard building, just off the town walls. The exhibition celebrates theTweed bridges between Berwick and Coldstream and includes new information about an alternative design to the Royal Border Bridge, discovered a couple of days before the opening! The exhibition will go on until September 29th 2009.
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Model Railway Exhibition sponsored by the Tweeddale Press through the Berwick Advertiser, and the Heritage Lottery Fund through Your Heritage.
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12.6.09 Model Railway Exhibition confirmed. Stephenson 150 is proud to announce that funding has now been secured and an exhibition of large model railway layouts in a range of scales will be at the Swan Centre for Leisure in Tweedmouth on the weekend of 29th - 30th August. Sorry for any confusion as to whether this was on or not!
There will be a FREE vintage bus service between this event and the Ford and Etal Estates event, where there will be a major Stephenson 150 exhibition on the Heatherslaw Light Railway, Robert Stephenson and the Royal Border Bridge, and Berwick town centre to enable everyone to enjoy all the events taking place over that weekend. |
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24.6.09 Second Gus Fairburn Lecture: Dr Bailey posed the rhetorical question, "How can one encompass a life of the stature of Robert Stephenson in one lecture?"
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27 - 28.6.09
A big thank you to everyone who made this weekend such a success; the organisers, exhibitors, speakers, volunteers and you, the public. An astonishing 1250 people came on Saturday and a further 500 came on the Sunday.
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27.6.09 While the exhibition was taking place in Berwick Guild Hall, other enthusiasts took advantage of the rare opportunity to visit Norham Railway Station. The next tour will take place at the end of the East Ord to Norham Station railway walk.
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1.8.09 An invigorating 10 mile walk was enjoyed by about 70 people. The great thing about these walks is the things you encounter that, unless you drive on the very minor roads, you would not know existed.
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Do Architecture, the reknowned Glasgow firm are undertaking feasibility trials into the illumination of the Royal Border Bridge. The images below are real!
