Tom Weir was a writer, broadcaster and an environmentalist. Tom wrote and presented this classic Scottish TV series Weir's Way which ran from 1976 to 1987
Thank you for sharing this wonderful video. It’s so wonderful to see Berwick back then...I remember it so well, it’s so very different now. The Market was destroyed when the council pedestrianised the street and the salmon fishing is barely existing now. It’s still an extremely beautiful and vibrant town tho. 😊
@15:20 what a beautiful scene in a beautiful town. It’s sad that they pedestrianised part of the town. I’ve yet to come across a town that wasn’t adversely affected to a smaller or greater extent after it was pedestrianised. Everywhere you look in this video shows a beautiful town. Stay well 😀
Had many visits and holidays here in Berwick some history. Should be in Scotland I agree with Tom it’s more of a Scottish feel to it like what Ayr is to Ayrshire is Berwick to Berwickshire. Some folk may disagree but that’s my personal opinion.
My dad (Frank Riley) was born in Berwick 1921, he was schooled there, later he worked as a grave digger, later he served in WW2, after the war moved to Toronto Ontario Canada where I was born; I have always wondered about what Berwick was really like, he always described it as a tough place to grow up in, tough people, and not much else was said about it, his mother was a Postal worker. We would get the Berwick newspaper delivered to us in Toronto in the 1960s and 70s, the main stories in those papers (that I remember) would be weddings and parades.
The story of Berwick is a story of war “wow !!! That’s a statement and a half ” Amazing that the stones Alec Dempster is using are 12th century from the old castle “to think these very stones have In Grained in them story’s of king Robert the Bruce and one of the greatest knights sir James Douglas along with the unsung heroes as well “the story’s of old kings of the North and kings of the south thanks Tom where ever you are great episode 👍👍
