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Crowds gather for the unveiling of Wauchope memorial, September 1902.

'Yetholm - Coronation - The Start 1911'. A parade of children to celebrate the coronation of George V. Rev. Carrick-Millar to the right of the piper.

'Kirk Yetholm Fastens Een 1912' Traditionally the oldest man in the village threw the ball that started the Ba' Game on the Haugh. Many other sporting races took place on that day as well.

Two men & three women sorting wool on the village green, c.1900.

Part of the huge crowd gathered in Town Yetholm High Street to witness the coronation of King Charles Faa Blythe. 1898.

'IOGT Queen of the Borders. Woodside. 1908' The Good Templars were a temperance organisation. They held meetings in Byewell Cottage, Town Yetholm and many members were the core of the group that founded the Mission Hall. Woodside is a farm in the Bowmont Valley close to Yetholm.

1959 Gypsy King Coronation Re-enactment. L to R: Unknown, Robert Nichol, Eric Gillie, Elma Goodfellow, Garnet Tice, Dodie Young, Phyllis Douglas, Tibbie Herbert, Mabel Coulter, unknown.

Two charabancs on village green - many charabanc tours visited the village in the 1920s and 30s, but this may show people from Yetholm about to set off on a trip.

Children, with teachers, waving British and American flags, in front of Wauchope Memorial. End of WW1, 1919?

Celebrations for the return of Colonel Wauchope after the Battle of Omdurman.

'Yetholm Shepherds Show 1909 - Sheep Judging'

'The Kelso Laddie visits Yetholm' c.1955 The Yetholm Ride from Kelso to Yetholm is one of the main events of Keslo Civic Week.

'Duke of Buccleuch's Foxhouds Yetholm 1st April 1909'. Foxhounds are still a regular sight around Yetholm.

'Yetholm Shepherd's Show 1910 - The Walmsley Troupe'

'Berwick Scouts Camp Yetholm 1914'. In the first decades of the twentieth century Scout troops often held Summer camps at Yetholm.

The Yetholm Spittal Trip, 1913 - every year the entire village decamped for a day at the seaside. These carts carried people to Mindrum from where they caught the train to Spittal.

A wedding in Town Yetholm c.1890, participants unknown.

Doreen Hutcheon, Bari Manushi, with children, 1963 Yetholm Festival.

'Yetholm visit of 4th KOSB 17th Febry 1915' During the First World War parties of soldiers often marched through the village to encourage recruitment.

Unveiling of the War Memorial on the haugh between Kirk and Town Yetholm in April 1922 by Sir George Douglas of Springwood Park. Twenty-three men from Yetholm were killed in the war.

'Laying of the foundation stone of Free Church 11th April 1882'

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