Yetholm History Society owns a collection of books (and some audio-visual material), which are housed in the Mission Hall. Given the limited space which we have available our collecting policy is that items should relate to Yetholm and Bowmont Valley. For security reasons the cabinet in which they are kept is locked, however our collection available for consultation by anyone interested in the area. If you would like to do so then please contact us via the contact page. A list of the contents of our library is shown below:
Mission Hall bookcase : updated 20/11/2023
Books
ACFA and BAS An archaeological field survey in the Halter Burn valley, Part 1, Halterburnhead ACFA and BAS An archaeological field survey in the Halter Burn valley, Part 2, Shotton Hill Acton,T. and Mundy,G., eds Romani culture and gypsy identity 1997 Acton,T., ed Gypsy politics and traveller identity 1997 Adams,M. The King in the North 2013 Allan,A. Tweed Rins Tae the Ocean 2021 Anderson,E. The Hill Folk 1991 2 copies Anderson,G.M. From the Glens to the Lowlands 1979 Archaeological Practice, The see Northumberland National Parks Authority Baird,William General Wauchope 1902 Baird,William Memoir of the late Rev. John Baird (photocopy) 1862 Binnie,G.A.C. The churches and graveyards of Roxburghshire 2001 2 copies Border Country Life Association The Scottish Borderland 1988 Borders Family History Society Roxburghshire Monumental Inscriptions I Hownam and Linton II Morebattle III Yetholm IV Sprouston and Lempitlaw V Eckford VIII Oxnam IX Roxburgh X Crailing and Nisbet Borders Family History Society Newsletter: June 1989……Kelso and Linton July 1991…..Hounam March 1992….Morebattle June 1992….. book review - Yetholm Borrow,George see Fraser,A. Bowden,C. The Last Shepherds 2004 Brander,Michael Ho for the Borders 1964 Brockie,W. The Gypsies of Yetholm 1884, original + p’copy Browne,J.H. Glimpses into the past in the Lammermuirs 1992 Campbell,A. and Robeson,R. Kelso: History in focus 2001 2 copies Clark,Peter Where the hills meet the sky: a guide to wartime air crashes in the Cheviot hills 1997 Cooke,Arthur Five hundred pounds reward no date ( ?1950s) Cowe,Bunty Clooty mats and sheepshearing 1995 Craig,M.W. The Border burnings 2008 Cruft,K.,Dunbar,J., and Fawcett,R. The Buildings of Scotland: Borders 2008 Darsley,R. and Lovett,D. Berwick to St.Boswells: country railway routes 2015 Davidson,R. Leaves from a peasant’s cottage drawer 2008 Denoon, C. Maxton 2000 2000 Dent,J. and McDonald R. see Scottish Borders Council Dippie Dixon, David Upper Coquetdale (first pub. 1903) 1974 Dippie Dixon, David Whittingham Vale (first pub.1895) 1979 Dixon,W. see Seattle,M. Dodgshon, R.A. The removal of runrig in Roxburghshire and Berwickshire, 1608 – 1766. In Scottish Studies, vol 16, part 2, page 121 1972 Douglas, Sir George Life of Major-General Wauchope, CB,CMG,LLD 1905 Edwards,A.R. Photographic Archive 1879 – 1965 2016 Fairless,P. Northumbria’s Golden Age 1994 Fraser,A. ed George Borrow’s Tour of Galloway and the Borders 1866 2015 Gauldie,E. The Scottish country miller 1700 – 1900 1918 Giles,C and Goodall, I.H. Yorkshire Textile Mills 1995 Gordon,F. Family and forebears of Dr.James and Mrs Mima McDonald of Belford Gray,J. The Story of Job and Job in a cheviot plaid 2021 Gray,Robert see Watson,Graeme Grundy,J,McCombie,G,Ryder,P,Welfare,H, eds. The buildings of England:Northumberland 1992 Guardian,The The long winter 1962 – 3 1963 Gubbins,B The drovers are coming to Morpeth town 2012 Gurney,P. Shepherd Lore 1985 Hall, Annegret Andrew Thompson 2021 Hart,E. The Hill Shepherd 1977 Haugh, Seymour Sixty Years Strong, A History of the Borders Search and Rescue Unit, 2023 Historic Village Atlas – Hethpool see Northumberland National Parks Authority Historic Village Atlas – Kilham see Northumberland National Parks Authority Hodgson,N. Below Flodden 2003 Hogg,Betty Just for a laugh no date Hogg,Betty Echoes – the memoir of a countrywoman no date Howarth, A.M. Life in a Scottish Border farmhouse in the 20s and 30s Ingram,A. Shepherding tools and customs (Shire Album 23) 1977 Iredale, D. Bondagers 2011 Jeary,M and Mulham,M, eds From Kelso to Kalamazoo (the life and times of George Taylor (1803 – 1891) Jeffrey History and Antiquities of Roxburghshire – extracts Jones,A. Travelling people and the tinkler gypsies of Galloway 2000 Kennington,F. Travellers’ tales from the Borders 2000 Kelso Connections Group We’re from Kelso 2009 Kilpatrick,D. Walter Scott’s Kelso 2005 Kirk of Yetholm,The Leaflet, no author named. 3 copies Laidler,L. Up the Valley no date Lang Syne Publishers Border life in days gone by. (Reprint of Lang,A and Lang,J) 1976 Leighton,A. reviser Wilson’s Tales of the Borders and of Scotland no date Lennen, Linda Hendry Scotland’s other royal family 2019 Leyden,J. and Brown,T. The Poetical Works of Dr.John Leyden 1875 (facsimile reprint) Low, Mary St Cuthbert’s Way 2000 Lucas, Joseph The Yetholm gypsies 1882 Lyle,E.B. A reconsideration of the place names in Thomas the Rhymer. In Scottish Studies vol 13, part 1, page 65. 1969 MacDougall, Ian Bondagers 2000 Mackie,A.O. and Robson,M.J.H. The parish of Linton no date 2 copies MacLeod,Dawn Land of Tweed (chapter on Yetholm) 1983 McLeish,Norrie Death in the Borders no date McLeish,Norrie The Haunted Borders no date McLeish,Norrie The Haunted Borders 2010 Manning,William The man in the iron mask: The Newstead parade helmet (from ‘Image, Craft and the Classical World’ 2005 ) Marsden, John The illustrated Border Ballads 1990 Maxwell-Irving, A.M.T. Early firearms and their influence on the military and domestic architecture of the Borders (from Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol.103. 1970-71 ) Mitchell,A A Borders schoolmaster 2000 Moffat,Alastair The Borders 2006 Moffat, Alastair Kelsae 2006 Morebattle Millenium History Group Kalewater: a miscellany 1999 2 copies Murray,Roddy Jock Todd of Blakelaw 2018 Northumberland National Parks Authority Cheviot Hills Heritage Atlas ?date Northumberland National Parks Authority and The Archaeological Practice: Historic Village Atlas - Hethpool 2004 Historic Village Atlas - Kilham 2004 Paterson,John The history and genealogy of the family of Wauchope of Niddrie- Merschell (photocopy) ?1858 Perkins,Roy Old Yetholm, Morebattle, Hownam and Mowhaugh 2007 (2 copies) Piggot,Stuart Scotland before history 198… Powell,Bob Scottish agricultural implements 1988 Rae,Janet Fabric of Scotland (Johnstons of Elgin) 2018 Rae,Bill ‘water mills on the Bowmont’, article in Scottish Local History, Issue no.60, spring 2004 Rae,Bill ‘the making of Bygone Yetholm’, article in Scottish Local History, Issue no.70,summer 2007 Rae,William A guide to Yetholm, Scottish Borders 1995 (10 copies) Ranger Service A hill walk – end of the Pennine Way !993 Ranger Service A hill walk – the Eildon Hills 1993 Ramage,W. An auld herd’s memories 1983 3 copies Ricalton,W.A. Longhorsley in WW2 20? Roberts,I., Carlton,R., and Rushworth,A. Drove roads of Northumberland 2010 Robson,M.J.H. A break with the past (changed days on two Border sheep farms) 1990 Robson,M. Dykes, ditches and disputes 2004 Scottish Borders Council Early Settlers in the Borders 1997 Scottish Borders Council Christian Heritage in the Borders 1998 Scottish Borders Council Farm and Factory: revolution in the Borders 2001 Scottish Borders Council Heritage sites in the Borders 2001 Scottish Studies. Vol 13 part 1 1969 University of Edinburgh Scottish Studies. Vol 16 part 2 1972 University of Edinburgh Seattle,M. The Master Piper 2011 Sitwell, W. The Border 1927 Smith,C.S. see Gurney,P. Smith, John Extracts from the diary of John Smith of Darnick (1782 – 1864) Designer of Yetholm bridge Stansfield, G. The lost railways of the Scottish Borders 1999 2 copies Strang,C.A. Borders and Berwick: illustrated architectural guide 1994 Tait,Jon The BorderTaits: a brief record of the family during the reiver period 2015 Tait,Jon Dick the devil’s bairns 2018 Tegner,Henry Charm of the Cheviots 1970 Tipping,Richard Bowmont 2010 Tokely,A.V. The Kirk Yetholm gypsies 2004 ( 4 paperback) Trainer,Dr.J.L. Kelso: yesterday, today, tomorrow 1985 Turnbull,W. and Pattison,B. Wartime memories of Kelso 2001 Vigne,R. Thomas Pringle 2012 Waddington,C. Land of Legend 1997 Wain, Brian Vets in Kelso (foreword by Joe Brown) 1986 Watson,G Goodwife Hot: Northumberland’s past in its place names 1986 Watson,G. Jedburgh Place Names 2012 Watson,Graeme, ed. The last of the wandering minstrels: selected poems of Robert Gray, the Yetholm poet 2016 2 copies Wilson’s Tales of the Borders and of Scotland – revised by Alexander Leighton no date Wilson’s Tales of the Borders and of Scotland no date Wood,P.D. Yetholm – materials for a history 2007 2 copies Yetholm History Society Bygone Yetholm 2006 3 copies Yetholm History Society Watermills on the Bowmont 2002 2 copies Yetholm History Society Yetholm Past and Present 2017 2 copies Young,D. Yetholm Parliamentary Papers no date
Yetholm Border Shepherds’ Show – these now held with other archive material on this subject 122nd show- catalogue of entries…………………………………………………………1983 132nd show- catalogue of entries…………………………………………………………1993 133rd show -catalogue of entries………………………………………………………… 1994 134th show- catalogue of entries…………………………………………………………1995 136th show-catalogue of entries…………………………………………………………..1997 + prize list 137th show -catalogue of entries………………………………………………………….1998 138th show -catalogue of entries………………………………………………………….1999 139th show …………………………………………………………………2000 prize list only 140th show – catalogue of entries……………………………...2002 + prize list 143rd show……………………………………………………………………2005 prize list only 144th show ……………………………………………………………………2006 prize list only 145th show – catalogue of entries…………………………………2008 146th show …………………………………………………………………..2009 prize list only 150th show – catalogue of entries ……………………………… 2013 152nd show – catalogue of entries…………………………………2015
Maps Bartholemew ‘reduced survey’ - 2 miles:1 inch – North Northumberland South Northumberland Durham Bartholemew revised – ½ inch contoured – Northumberland x 3 copies Tyneside War Office 1932 (revision 1940) - Cheviot Hills Ordnance Survey 1 inch - Sheet 64, 1947 - Berwick upon Tweed Sheet 70, 1952/3 – Jedburgh Sheet 70, revised 1961/2, - Jedburgh Ordnance Survey Landranger -2cm: 1km – Sheet 74 – Kelso and surrounding area Sheet 80 – Cheviot Hills and Kielder Forest area Ordnance Survey Pathfinder – (1:25000) -Sheet 475-The Cheviot Hills(North) x 2 copies
DVDs The forgotten workers 2012 Valley in the North 2009 Vintage farming in the Borders CDs Film of gypsy coronation 1959 Main Street Village Praise Huntsman’s Cottage Gypsies – Charlie Dawson Text and Refs Old Yetholm ‘04 Old Yetholm 2, with ‘dream of childhood’ Yetholm Panto 2010 Toll Roads Past Lives (BBC Radio Scotland) ‘Lest we forget’: the Gallipoli campaign and its impact on the men of Kelso The Chevy Chase: ‘Shaking loose the Border’ Longhorsley Local History Society archives Summer holidays in Yetholm (memories from 1930s)
VHS tapes The Dales Diary (ITV)- part of one episode + CD (Bygone Yetholm) A year in Yetholm 1996 3 tapes +CD
Tapes ‘The last Border’ (BBC Radio Scotland, programmes 1,2 and 3) 1993-4. 2 tapes ‘Out and about in Yetholm ‘ (Radio Tweed 11/2/1991) x2 copies *Yetholm Festival Week June 1999 + General Wauchope re-enactment + Gypsy crowning + Baird re-enactment