#hawick — Public Fediverse posts

Urban scenery at its best. A view of Hawick Town Hall, in the heart of Hawick in the Scottish Borders. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/hawick/hawick/index.html

#Scotland #Hawick #TownHall #ScottishBorders

Historic Hawick tweed mill recreates Victorian designs to mark 200th anniversary https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78e5m9m0vpo #Scotland #ScottishBorders #Hawick #Textile #Fashion #Weaving #History

Watching My Kind of Town from my home town Hawick for the 3rd or 4th time 🙂 It was repeated on the telly the other night and is on the iPlayer. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001hl5s/my-kind-of-town-series-3-4-hawick #TV #Scotland #ScottishBorders #Hawick #Rugby

Ridiculously excited to get the latest Hawick Archaeological Society Transactions and find an illustrated article on the history of Wilton manses. My second Hawick childhood home is the latest Wilton manse - sold by us to them in 1991. My first Hawick childhood home was near an earlier Wilton manse. #Hawick #Scotland #ScottishBorders #ChurchOfScotland

Ridiculously excited to get the latest Hawick Archaeological Society Transactions and find an illustrated article on the history of Wilton manses. My second Hawick childhood home is the latest Wilton manse - sold by us to them in 1991. My first Hawick childhood home was near an earlier Wilton manse. #Hawick #Scotland #ScottishBorders #ChurchOfScotland

Ridiculously excited to get the latest Hawick Archaeological Society Transactions and find an illustrated article on the history of Wilton manses. My second Hawick childhood home is the latest Wilton manse - sold by us to them in 1991. My first Hawick childhood home was near an earlier Wilton manse. #Hawick #Scotland #ScottishBorders #ChurchOfScotland

Ridiculously excited to get the latest Hawick Archaeological Society Transactions and find an illustrated article on the history of Wilton manses. My second Hawick childhood home is the latest Wilton manse - sold by us to them in 1991. My first Hawick childhood home was near an earlier Wilton manse. #Hawick #Scotland #ScottishBorders #ChurchOfScotland

Ridiculously excited to get the latest Hawick Archaeological Society Transactions and find an illustrated article on the history of Wilton manses. My second Hawick childhood home is the latest Wilton manse - sold by us to them in 1991. My first Hawick childhood home was near an earlier Wilton manse. #Hawick #Scotland #ScottishBorders #ChurchOfScotland

Firebrand premièred this new radio play at this year's DunsPlayFest. Presented on stage as a radio play it was remarkably spell binding. Great to see them touring it.

#newWriting #DunsPlayFest #Hawick #Theatre #RadioPlay #Firebrand

Recalling playing accordion for Hawick High School musical shows in the late 1980s. Just blogged about this, remembering Hawick High School shows Fiddler on the Roof, Oliver! and Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. 1987-1989. https://vivsacademicblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/recalling-playing-accordion-for-hawick-high-school-musical-shows-in-the-late-1980s/ #music #Hawick #ScottishBorders #Scotland #accordion

When it opened in 2018, the Borders Distillery in Hawick became the first (legal) whisky distillery in the Scottish Borders since 1837. It comes complete with the most visually impressive still room we've seen. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/hawick/bordersdistillery/index.html

#Scotland #Hawick #ScottishBorders

Sad to see upcoming demolition of old Hawick High School buildings - some musings from me https://vivsacademicblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/sad-to-see-upcoming-demolition-of-old-hawick-high-school-buildings/ #Hawick #ScottishBorders #Architecture #Scotland

Got me some art supplies in (the pencil case is full of a good range of grades of graphite pencils etc.). I used to love drawing as a teenager. Especially in O'Grade Art and Design, when being sent out into Wilton Lodge Park on our own to draw the landscape and wildlife was just the best thing ever! I'd like to return to drawing, though I won't be able to get out much. Considered using my iPad, but for me, I think, analogue would be better. Wish me luck! #art #drawing #Hawick

Hawick Saxhorn Band to celebrate 170th birthday with display https://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/25141283.hawick-saxhorn-band-celebrate-170th-birthday-display/ #Hawick #Music #Scotland #BrassBand #History

“A Troublesome Mongrel”: an unusually characterful court case in Hawick, Scotland in 1882. https://caversonenamestudy.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/a-troublesome-mongrel/ #Hawick #Dogs #Crime #Scotland #History

Urban scenery at its best. A view of Hawick Town Hall, in the heart of Hawick in the Scottish Borders. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/hawick/hawick/index.html

#Scotland #Hawick #TownHall #ScottishBorders

Watching the recent Antiques Roadshow from Thirlestane Castle in the Scottish Borders, and look how it ends! So many Scottish Borders sweeties! #ScottishSweets #Sweets #ScottishFood #Scotland #Food #ScottishBorders #Hawick #Jedburgh #Galashiels #AntiquesRoadshow #Thirlestane #ThirlestaneCastle

Me trying the live audio transcription facility in MacOS Sequoia. Well it could be quite useful, but with serious caveats! #MacOS #Sequoia #transcription #accessibility #Hawick #Roxburghshire #ScottishBorders #Scotland #accents #ScottishAccent #ScottishAccents #NotesApp #Mac

Me trying the live audio transcription facility in MacOS Sequoia. Well it could be quite useful, but with serious caveats! #MacOS #Sequoia #transcription #accessibility #Hawick #Roxburghshire #ScottishBorders #Scotland #accents #ScottishAccent #ScottishAccents #NotesApp #Mac

Me trying the live audio transcription facility in MacOS Sequoia. Well it could be quite useful, but with serious caveats! #MacOS #Sequoia #transcription #accessibility #Hawick #Roxburghshire #ScottishBorders #Scotland #accents #ScottishAccent #ScottishAccents #NotesApp #Mac

Me trying the live audio transcription facility in MacOS Sequoia. Well it could be quite useful, but with serious caveats! #MacOS #Sequoia #transcription #accessibility #Hawick #Roxburghshire #ScottishBorders #Scotland #accents #ScottishAccent #ScottishAccents #NotesApp #Mac

Me trying the live audio transcription facility in MacOS Sequoia. Well it could be quite useful, but with serious caveats! #MacOS #Sequoia #transcription #accessibility #Hawick #Roxburghshire #ScottishBorders #Scotland #accents #ScottishAccent #ScottishAccents #NotesApp #Mac

More indexing the many hundreds of newspaper references I found to a travelling German accordion player and tuner in mid/late 19th century Scotland. He's now turned up in my home town Hawick, and I'm seriously distracted by other adverts on the page. Like this one from 1892. #Hawick #ScottishBorders #SocialHistory #Umbrella #Umbrellas #19thCentury #NineteenthCentury #Newspapers #BNA #BritishNewspaperArchive #Scotland #History #accordion #squeezebox

Welcome to newcomers to #Mastodon. Happy to see you! I'm an academic #historian, urban/cultural/book/social history, esp. #Scotland 17th/18th/19th centuries. Also accordionist, genealogist, former computer scientist, interactive fiction writer and #DoctorWho fan. Originally from #Hawick, now in #Dundee. https://vivdunstan.co.uk #urbanHistory #culturalHistory #bookHistory #socialHistory #accordion #genealogy #familyHistory #computerScience #interactiveFiction #17thC #18thC #19thC #history

When it opened in 2018, the Borders Distillery in Hawick became the first (legal) whisky distillery in the Scottish Borders since 1837. It comes complete with the most visually impressive still room we've seen. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/hawick/bordersdistillery/index.html

#Scotland #BordersDistillery #Scotch #Whisky #Distillery #Hawick #ScottishBorders #UndiscoveredScotland

Urban scenery at its best. A view of Hawick Town Hall, in the heart of Hawick in the Scottish Borders. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/hawick/hawick/index.html

#Scotland #Hawick #TownHall #ScottishBorders #UndiscoveredScotland

First chromatic button #accordion practice since before my vaccines. I definitely need to work more on basic exercises. But tonight enjoyed playing some of my favourite tunes from sheet music, including Sunrise Sunset, the Pirates of the Caribbean theme, and the Skye Boat Song. The last two were new for me on this hunt the right button box. Skye Boat Song will be especially good to play to keep learning this new for me accordion system. Oh and I also played some #Hawick tunes by ear. #Squeezebox

Browsing the #Hawick parish #kirkSession minutes online. Serious yikes at this handwriting from 1821. Not happy making. #Palaeography #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #NineteenthCentury #19thCentury

Very belatedly - only tracing this since early 1980s! - spotted the 1871 Wilton Dean #census gives more accurate birthplace for my ggg-granny Margaret Cavers, Mrs Hall. Other records say Stow parish, Midlothian or Selkirkshire. This census says Fairnehirst, Midlothian i.e. farm Ferniehirst near Torwoodlee. There's no surviving record of her baptism. Her parents moved around a lot - her dad Thomas was a shepherd. Her widowed mum Helen ended up back at #Hawick. #genealogy #FamilyHistory #Scotland

Browsing old #newspapers in the #BritishNewspaperArchive and finding a very intriguing J.G. Yung #accordion performer and piano etc tuner popping up frequently in the #ScottishBorders in the latter half of the 19th century (1850s onwards). A bit of genealogical digging finds he was born in #Darmstadt, #Germany, and died in #Hawick in 1903. I may well pull together the various references into a more scholarly article. #squeezebox #Scotland #music #MusicHistory #HistoryOfMusic #Genealogy #BNA

Digging out my schoolgirl #French to email #accordion makers #Maugein to tell them how phenomenally the new chromatic box #CBA seems to be helping my hand control generally, fighting my #neuro cerebral #vasculitis. 250 ish French words later and all done. It's a marvel how much French language I remember, even if I have to check a few words here and there. But I can write 90% of it in one go. Higher French in 1988/9 at #Hawick High #School was a very long time ago. #LanguageLearning #squeezebox

Time for a fresh #introduction. I’m an #academic #historian (have PhD in historic Scottish reading habits #bookHistory), genealogist, former computer scientist and #accordion player. Live with progressive #neuro disease. Keen player and author of #InteractiveFiction games. Also before I got too ill I enjoyed playing #CallOfCthulhu #RPG. Keen reader (that PhD was really appropriate!) and #fountainPen user. Originally from #Hawick in #ScottishBorders now live in #Dundee, #Scotland. #books #reading

Don’t usually watch the #proms, but chanced upon #Grieg tunes. Which I recognise from the local #Hawick operatic society doing the Song of Norway show one year in the 1980s! I was asked by my #violin teacher to play the violin for the show that year, but declined. #ScottishBorders #music #AmateurOperatics #Norway

Don’t usually watch the #proms, but chanced upon #Grieg tunes. Which I recognise from the local #Hawick operatic society doing the Song of Norway show one year in the 1980s! I was asked by my #violin teacher to play the violin for the show that year, but declined. #ScottishBorders #music #AmateurOperatics #Norway

Don’t usually watch the #proms, but chanced upon #Grieg tunes. Which I recognise from the local #Hawick operatic society doing the Song of Norway show one year in the 1980s! I was asked by my #violin teacher to play the violin for the show that year, but declined. #ScottishBorders #music #AmateurOperatics #Norway

Don’t usually watch the #proms, but chanced upon #Grieg tunes. Which I recognise from the local #Hawick operatic society doing the Song of Norway show one year in the 1980s! I was asked by my #violin teacher to play the violin for the show that year, but declined. #ScottishBorders #music #AmateurOperatics #Norway

Don’t usually watch the #proms, but chanced upon #Grieg tunes. Which I recognise from the local #Hawick operatic society doing the Song of Norway show one year in the 1980s! I was asked by my #violin teacher to play the violin for the show that year, but declined. #ScottishBorders #music #AmateurOperatics #Norway

Happy 4th of July to my American friends who celebrate. Two g..uncles of mine emigrated from Hawick in Scotland to America and fought for American independence against the British. I need to look more into their history ... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #ScottishHistory #Hawick #ScottishBorders #Scotland #4thofJuly #IndependenceDay #AmericanRevolutionaryWar #USA #America #AmericanRevolution

When it opened in 2018, the Borders Distillery in Hawick became the first (legal) whisky distillery in the Scottish Borders since 1837. It comes complete with the most visually impressive still room we've seen. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/hawick/bordersdistillery/index.html

#Scotland #BordersDistillery #Scotch #Whisky #Distillery #Hawick #ScottishBorders #UndiscoveredScotland

Delighted to manage a little #accordion practice, playing lots of my own arrangements. Here was my quick initial warm up today, playing Sunrise Sunset from #FiddlerOnTheRoof. I first played this in the late 1980s for the #Hawick High #School #show production. I also played the accordion for school shows of Joseph and Oliver in other years. Back then I was playing on my larger red accordion bought in 1981. That's still my main box. Today I was playing my smaller blue model. #musicals #squeezebox

Bill McLaren's 'chaotic' study to be recreated
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-65400600 #BillMcLaren #Rugby #ScottishRugby #Scotland #ScottishBorders #Hawick #Sport

Just watching last night’s Grand Tours of Scotland’s Rivers, this week about the River #Teviot and #Teviotdale, my home area https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001l1jy/grand-tours-of-scotlands-rivers-series-2-5-an-independent-river #ScottishBorders #Roxburghshire #Hawick #Jedburgh #Kelso #Roxburgh #Scotland

Just watching last night’s Grand Tours of Scotland’s Rivers, this week about the River #Teviot and #Teviotdale, my home area https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001l1jy/grand-tours-of-scotlands-rivers-series-2-5-an-independent-river #ScottishBorders #Roxburghshire #Hawick #Jedburgh #Kelso #Roxburgh #Scotland

Just watching last night’s Grand Tours of Scotland’s Rivers, this week about the River #Teviot and #Teviotdale, my home area https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001l1jy/grand-tours-of-scotlands-rivers-series-2-5-an-independent-river #ScottishBorders #Roxburghshire #Hawick #Jedburgh #Kelso #Roxburgh #Scotland

Just watching last night’s Grand Tours of Scotland’s Rivers, this week about the River #Teviot and #Teviotdale, my home area https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001l1jy/grand-tours-of-scotlands-rivers-series-2-5-an-independent-river #ScottishBorders #Roxburghshire #Hawick #Jedburgh #Kelso #Roxburgh #Scotland

Just watching last night’s Grand Tours of Scotland’s Rivers, this week about the River #Teviot and #Teviotdale, my home area https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001l1jy/grand-tours-of-scotlands-rivers-series-2-5-an-independent-river #ScottishBorders #Roxburghshire #Hawick #Jedburgh #Kelso #Roxburgh #Scotland

National importance of #Stobs Camp near #Hawick recognised https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-65262798 #Scotland #ScottishBorders #Army #ArmyHistory #Military #MilitaryHistory #WW1 #WorldWarOne #PrisonersOfWar #POW #GermanSoldiers #TrainingCamp #ScottishHistory

National importance of #Stobs Camp near #Hawick recognised https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-65262798 #Scotland #ScottishBorders #Army #ArmyHistory #Military #MilitaryHistory #WW1 #WorldWarOne #PrisonersOfWar #POW #GermanSoldiers #TrainingCamp #ScottishHistory

National importance of #Stobs Camp near #Hawick recognised https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-65262798 #Scotland #ScottishBorders #Army #ArmyHistory #Military #MilitaryHistory #WW1 #WorldWarOne #PrisonersOfWar #POW #GermanSoldiers #TrainingCamp #ScottishHistory

National importance of #Stobs Camp near #Hawick recognised https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-65262798 #Scotland #ScottishBorders #Army #ArmyHistory #Military #MilitaryHistory #WW1 #WorldWarOne #PrisonersOfWar #POW #GermanSoldiers #TrainingCamp #ScottishHistory