All meetings are held in the society's own Hertitage Centre - the Mission Hall, Grafton Road, Town Yetholm TD5 8RU. This 'tin tabernacle' (see image below) was built in the 1930s and is itself part of Yetholm's historic environment. It is slightly set back from the road.
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Yetholm History Society 23/24 Programme
September 23rd (Saturday) 10.00am. Private tour of Mellerstain with Lesley Abernethy. £18 October 3rd Lecture: Lady Grizell Baillie - Lesley Abernethy (author) November 7th The Union Chain Bridge - a brief history and its recent restoration - Edward Cawthorn (Hon Sec of the Friends of the Union Chain Bridge) December 5th Christmas meal - Border Hotel. 7pm for 7.30. February 6th Wooler in World War II - A Defended Village - Alan Sture (+ AGM) March 5th Irregular Border Marriages -Linda Bankier April 2nd Ad Gefrin - Anglo-SaxonRoyal Township & Creating a 21st Century Museum - Dr Chris Ferguson Revised date - this talk will now take place on 16th April. May 7th St.Cuthbert and the Venerable Bede: an Anglo-Saxon history - Katharine Tiernan (author). All meetings will take place in the Mission Hall in Grafton Road at 7.30pm. |