Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 47 (3)

The author discusses the history of the textile industry in the Borders, focusing on the period from the late-sixteenth to the late-twentieth centuries and looking at various aspects including the types of textile operations carried out, the conditions in which they took place, the technology used, the economics of the industry and the reasons for its decline.

Article on the seventh-century Northumbrian saint Æbbe, who was head of a double monastery on what is now known as the Kirk Hill on St Abb's Head, Berwickshire. Soon after her death in about AD 680 the monastery was accidentally burnt down and not replaced, but in the twelfth century her remains were taken to the Church of St Mary at Coldingham, and an oratory dedicated to her was built on the old monastic site by the monks of St Cuthbert. She continued to be generally recognised up to the Reformation. Includes

On the explanation of an inscription, `Ancrum and Heriot, Fellowhills 1887' on a stained glass window in Ladykirk Church. The article is based on the notes of a former President and Secretary of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club during the 1920s which relate to two owners of Fellowhills during the first half of the nineteenth century.