YHS at Yetholm Show

Yetholm History Society will have a stall at this year's Border Shepherd's Show, which will take place on the Venchen Haugh, Town Yetholm, on Saturday 7th October. We will be launching our latest book Yetholm Past and Present - A Walking Guide at the event. Also on sale will be prints and postcards of Janet Canning's wonderful illustrations, which are used throughout the book. For more details ofYetholm Past and Present see the Publications section of the website. We will also be selling copies of the DVD Yetholm - the Finest Place and Graeme Watson's book The Last of the Wandering Minstrels, a selection of poetry by Robert Grey, the nineteenth century vagabond poet, who hailed from yetholm and always referred to himself as 'the Yetholm Poet'. If you are coming to the show, make sure you check out our stall.

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A picture from the YHS archives, although it is not cetrtain that it is of the Border Shepherd's Show, which this year celebrates its 154th anniversary.