Yetholm Show 2018

YHS had a busy stall at this years' Yetholm Shepherd's Show. Visitors included holidays makers who just happened to be here at the weekend of the show and many local people. One of the latter was Billy Younger (above) who had come with the vintage tractor contingent - an aspect of the show which has grown greatly over the past few years. Chatting with Billy it suddenly dawned that he was the individual who featured in a piece in the Berwickshire News in December 1951, a copy of which we have in the YHS archives (below). Billy's father farmed at the remote Currburn farm until the 1970s - several miles down a track from the road at Primside Mill. Billy attended Yetholm School and clearly benefited from a good mathematical education - and the long walk to school clearly did him good too as he is still hale and hearty! After his father left the farm it was amalgamated with a larger property and Currburn's history as an independent enterprise came to an end.