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Yetholm 18th July 1963. Centre R.B. Martin (95 years) and on right his daughter Elizabeth (Bessie) Martin, who was for many years the most stalwart member of the Mission Hall congregation.

Charles Faa Blythe, the last King of the Yetholm Gyspies, at home in the palace, Kirk Yetholm, c 1900.

Yetholm Border Shepherd's Show Committee 1921

Archibald Gladstone, blacksmith, who crowned the last king of the gypsies, outside Smithy - photo used in newspaper article published 1927

Photograph of Leek Club members: (L to R) P Tait, W Notman, D Turnbull, G Purves, Alistair Young, T Allan, G Tice, A Veitch. c.1975.

Photo outside village butcher's shop, Town Yetholm, with (L to R) Donny Cockburn, George Lees & John Tweedie. 1993 .

Yetholm School pupils c. 1910. Teacher is Mr Mather.

Photo at 1983 Gypsy Coronation re-enactment - left to right: Jean Younger, Robin Butler and one of Eileen Gillie's daughters.

Pupils at Yetholm School, c1948.

Unknown woman, c.1900, outside the now demolished cottages in front of the kirk.

Club outing (?) leaving from the Plough Hotel, Town Yetholm, c 1950?

Yetholm Angling Club outside the Swan Hotel, 1908.

Yetholm Cricket Team 1945-46. Back row (l to r) Rev. K Mcfadden, W Jeffrey, John Butler, R. Cockburn, W. Paveley, T. Tokely, R. Turnbull. Front Row: P.R.Darling, T. Davidson, J. Tait.

Fancy dress competitors c 1950 - Poddy Underwood and Alison Butler.

A Yetholm family - image used as a postcard sent 1908.

John Adams and his wife. John was a tailor whose business expanded in the 1940s to become a grocers shop.

Dr Turnbull, village doctor in the mid-20th century.

Robert Herbert, mason, demolishing the old thatched Lowriewell Cottage, Town Yetholm - and then rebuilding and slating it c.1905.

Andrew Blythe, one-armed schoolteacher and session clerk. After his death he left money to pay for the stained-glass windows in the kirk (perhaps the most attractive such windows in the Borders) and also to install the chiming clock in the kirk tower.

A child - possibly Webb Daw - on Town Yetholm green, late-1940s.

Mr Christie, Skaffy Douglas and Croxy Douglas. The two Douglas brother were well known characters in the village. Skaffy, as his nick-name suggests, was the village dustman.

Dedication of Yetholm Church windows 1934.

Dedication of Andrew Blythe Church windows, 1934. BR: J Dixon Turnbull, Garnet Tice, William Turnbull. FR: Mr Lorne Campbell (Architect), Rev Kenneth McFadden, Rev. John White (Glasgow), James Ballantine (Window manufacturer).

Yetholm School Staff 1970s.

Yetholm School Staff 1970s. BR: Mrs Aitchison, Mr Robson FR: Maureen Roberton, Malcolm MacGregor (Head), Libby Wichary

Working on Calroust Farm in 1930s.

Raking up the hay, 1930s, Calroust Farm. L to R: Scott Telfer, Jimmy Long, Jim Telfer + a relative of the Telfer family, there to help.

King Charles sitting on bridge over mill lade in Kirk Yetholm, c 1900.

Mary Little with one of the large end-over-end kirns. The photograph was taken at Cocklawfoot.

Matthew and Mary Douglas, Kirk Yetholm Green, c.1900.

Mary Douglas seated to left of the doorway of her shop, Kirk Yetholm, c.1900. Other people unknown.

Cripple Matthew

Rev. John Baird.

James Martin c.1910.

Miss Downs and children of Mowhaugh School.

Men with cart on Dow Brae, c.1910.

Mr Roberton of Yetholm Mains.

Rev. Norman MacPherson - ?

Bari Gadgi and Bari Manushi 1962.

The Kirkin' of the Bari Gadgi & Bari Manushi 2023.

Richie Stenhouse perhaps - ? Plus the oldest man in Kirk Yetholm in 1912.

Bessie and Richie Stenhouse, possibly with their grandmother.

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