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The Upper Tweed Community News Issue 72 March 2016 Flooding in Upper Tweed the Recent Fooding in Uppertweed Was Dramatic and Destructive, the Worst After Storm Frank £ 0.70 The Upper Tweed Community News Issue 72 March 2016 flooding in upper tweed The recent fooding in UpperTweed was dramatic and destructive, the worst after Storm Frank. SEPA reported a record level at Kingledores:at 3.144m on 30/12/2015 at 10:30 (the averge is 0.39m.) refecting the massive run-off in Tweedsmuir and above. Water cascading down the burns and running over an already saturated land massively increases the deluge. The damage to homes, businesses and farming was signifcant although less in Upper Tweed than some other areas. The foods have triggered an on-going review of food prevention by Scottish Borders Council.. Resilient communities may provide sandbags and other assistence. As it is likely that, with climate change, this pattern will recur it is clear that long- term planning is required. It could involve barriers, alterations in rivers but also in increasing the capacity of land to hold water with strategic fooding and forestry planting. Flooding over the newly installed food protection at Merlindale pouring onto the B217 Merlindale Bridge,almost breached. - again. This was the third recent food. The barrier held for the frst two. © J.Lintott ©.M.Lukas CONTENTS Broughton Bowling CluB p 2 ww1 rememBered. p 3 thirlestane- a Century of Change p 4 musiC in ChurCh: poem p 5 Borders forest trust: Vision p 6 Broughton primary sChool p 7 small Village - Big energy p 8 tweedsmuir talk p 9 notiCeBoard p10 Bananas news p11 gill Bateman retiral.& Bft p12 The valley at Stanhope. When food receded the damage was seen as below. ©C.Parker Dyke destroyed, forlorn barrier, soil Trees uprooted. ©C.Parker Stones from a dykes strewn over the feld eroded, ©C.Parker ©C.Parker This issue is sponsored by Broughton & District Bowling c luB p2 Upper Tweed Community News 1 Broughton and Distict Bowling Club Season 2016 OPENING OF THE GREEN on Saturday 16th April - 2.00pm New Members will be made welcome Sunday 17th April – 12.00pm – 4.00pm Open Day for all Ages Bowls provided Flat Shoes please Secretary : Christine Kay Tel : 01899 830369 www.broughtonanddistrictbowling.co.uk Upper Tweed Community News 2 WW 1: In Memorium In June 2014, theUpper Tweed Community News listed the men from our communities who died in the disastrous, tragic World War 1. Some families still live in our community. We will continue to feature some of these men over the next 2 years. SWANS MINICOACH HIRE 3 Springwell Brae Broughton 01899 830251 16-seater mini coaches for hire Sapper John Bell Gunner George Cochrane Royal Engineers Royal Field Artillery John Bell, also son of John Bell, formerly George Cochrane was the son of the HANDYMAN of The Wrae and later of Duns was a late William Cochrane, shepherd at ploughman at Cardon who volunteered Mossfennan and was by trade a joiner FENCING soon after the outbreak of war. He before joining up in December 1915. He GARDENING joined the 1st Battalion of the Cameron was attached to the Royal Field Artillery Highlander in November 1914 and and was trained at Luton and Woolwich SMALL BUILDING REPAIRS was transferred to the Royal Engineers barracks before being sent to France in AND RENOVATIONS Tunnelling Company in May 1915. August 1916. The war on the Western Front had In 1899, The Royal Artillery had been DOUGLAS A ROPER bogged down into siege conditions by divided into different elements, The Royal November 1914. Both sides needed to Garrison Artillery (RGA), the Royal THE LOGAN, TWEEDSMUIR break through the enemy’s defensive Horse Artillery (RHA) and The Royal TEL: 01899 880284 entrenched positions. Then mining Field Artillery (RFA). The Royal Field under the enemy lines started, placing Artillery was its largest arm during WW1 explosives and blowing them up. In some being responsible for medium calibre areas, both sides mined and counter- guns and howitzers. There were over 150 mined intensively. For the infantry RFA Brigades active in WW1, the great above ground, the wait for underground majority of them in France attached to Electrical Contractor explosions was nerve-wracking indeed; Army Divisions. The Royal Artillery was (Prop: N Curatolo) for the men underground, hard toil often re-amalgamated into one force in 1924. • Domestic, Commercial & Industrial came accompanied by sudden death. George Cochrane was wounded in action Installations th The pre-war British army had no specifc on 17 October 1916 and died from his • Security Lighting & Alarms organisation for carrying out sapping, wounds in Boulogne Hospital ten days • Electric Showers mining and tunnelling operations, later on 27th October. although most men of the Royal Engineers • House Re-wires The chaplain in his letter said “how received some training in the subject. • Portable Appliance Testing highly Gunner Cockrane was held, how Digging beneath an enemy position with • SBSA Registered Self-Certifer patiently he suffered, tenderly nursed and the object of destroying it was featured in peacefully died” the book ‘Birdsong’ by Sebastian Faulks. All work guaranteed There were over thirty Royal Engineers He was buried with full Military Honours Unit 2, Lindsaylands Road, Tunnelling Companies active on the in Boulogne Cemetery on 20th October Biggar ML12 6EQ Western Front. and his name is on the Broughton War Tel 01899 220160 07860 750982 Fax 01899 220160 Memorial. John was killed in a mine explosion on 1st E-mail: [email protected] June 1916 on Vimy Ridge. His brother http://www.nacelectrics.com/ had been killed only 8 months earlier on 30th September 2015. John’s name is on The Archive the Broughton War Memorial. These biographies are drawn from the excellent book by Dr A Gunn, The Book of Remembrance for Tweeddale Burgh and Parish, published in 1925. The Book of Remembrance for Tweeddale It provides short biographies and photographs of those who died in WW 1. states, “It was said that the two brothers were Additional information from families for the series will be welcome. much esteemed, cheerful, active and patriotic. The book is available in an impressive digitised version from the National They willingly gave themselves at the call of Archives of Scotland at duty. Their memory is cherished both by their https://archive.org/stream/bookofremembranc1925gunn#page/n9/mode/2up. bereaved parents and friends” Upper Tweed Community News 3 Thirlestane A Century of Change in Broughton Thirlestane, on the southern edge of Broughton village, was built in 1903 by John Best, the engineer from Edinburgh who was in charge of the construction of the Talla dam. The site was originally a farm steading. The land sloped down from the road but John Best built much of it up to the road level, using soil excavated from a tunnel he built at Broughton Knowe to take the water main to Edinburgh. He named the house “Dalnaskhl”, later changed to Rachanside and now Thirlestane. In the garden, there is a plinth with small red tiles spelling out ‘Talla 1903’. The house, stable block and a tall fagpole in the garden. (postcard 1907) Unfortunately John Best was unable to attend the Talla dam’s In the late 1930s, advertisements to attract paying guests to the grand opening ceremony on 28th September 1905, due to a house were placed by a “Mrs. Cameron, late Crook Inn”, and the car accident reported as “he was being driven in a motor on facilities were described as “Fishing, Tennis and Croquet. First- the road near Broughton when the chauffeur, endeavouring to Class Table; Every Comfort. Moderate. Near Station. Bus keep the car as clear as possible of a restive horse coming in passes door. Personal Supervision.” the opposite direction, swerved so far out of his course as to From 1940-51 Isobel Sked (later Cummings), her parents and run the car into a wall. Mr. Best was thrown from the car and sisters, rented it for £85 a year. They kept a pig, chickens and sustained injuries that were not of a serious description.” After some hives of bees at the bottom of the garden. They took he died on June 1908 in Edinburgh his son, also John Best, and paying guests: the drying poles behind the house were in a contractor, inherited the house but he probably only occupied constant use because of all the linen which needed washing it occasionally. In the 1911 census he was aged 41 and lived in They also served afternoon teas to people who had come out Edinburgh with his wife Helen, their eight children aged 3-15, from Edinburgh. Broughton had no electricity then so they and 4 female servants. had a generator in a shed and also used candles and oil lamps. The house has had various alterations over the years, including There was no central heating and there were freplaces in the an extension in around 1914. An advertisement of May 1914 bedrooms. At frst all hot water had to be brought upstairs via stated “Builders wanted, 10d per hour. Apply Dalnaskhl.” a dumb waiter, but wash-handbasins were later installed in the In April 1916 a couple surnamed Winton and their daughter bedrooms, now disappeared. Isobel recalled that she used to sled Jessie had just moved into the fat over the stables belonging down the feld opposite the house and also climbing along the to the main house, now known as Courtyard Lodge, to act as boundary wall, exciting because of its curved top. caretakers/gardeners. Mr. Winton wrote to his son Jim, then The Polish army, billeted nearby, sometimes used the house serving in the trenches: “We have got settled down in our new for meetings. I have been told that General Sikorski stayed place, it is really a pretty place and we have from the windows in one of the upstairs bedrooms.
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