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Wednesday 14th February 2024 in the Parish Centre Gwen and Antony Chessell introduced two contrasting talks, one of an adventure in South Australia into Queensland and the other to the far north of the Northern Territory on the Arafura Sea. Gwen told us about what was supposed to be a round camping trip with brother-in-law, […]

A Presentation by Annie Robinson When did you last give more than a passing glance to any of the beautiful stained glass windows in many of Berwick’s Buildings? That was the question that we asked ourselves following Annie’s comprehensive, educational and fascinating talk about the history of glassmaking and stained glass, the stories of the […]

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On Wednesday 11 October the Civic Society had its annual joint meeting withBerwick History Society. James Bruce stood in for Clive Hallam-Baker, whohad been scheduled to talk about the first millennium of Border history untilill-health obliged him to postpone. It happens James has spent much of thisyear working on different versions of an academic paper […]

A presentation by Sandra Gann A discovery of the site of an old ‘iron church’ in Spittal led to an exploration of ‘tin tabernacles’ asthat is what the hundreds of iron churches erected during the Victorian era were called. What were they, why were they called tin tabernacles as they were made of iron and […]

A Presentation by Sandra Gann SEPTEMBER 2023 Talk Poster Tin TabernaclesDownload Berwick Heritage Open Days

Nick Lewis, Collections House Officer, National Trust Lindisfarne For the July meeting of the Civic Society we heard the story of how Edward Hudson, Founder of Country Life Magazine, took on the castle of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne in 1901 and in 1903 commissioned the architect Edward ‘Ned’ Lutyens to redesign the building as […]