HAWICK REIVERS FESTIVAL FRIDAY 22ND - SUNDAY 24TH MARCH 2019 BORDERS KITH & KIN JRW_Reivers_FP.qxp_Layout 1 15/01/2017 09:33 Page 1 Welcome Welcome to the 2019 Hawick Reivers Festival We hope you are all ready to enjoy and participate in this year’s festival which is jam packed with fun events for all the family We are delighted to welcome re-enactors from far and wide to the Reivers Encampment - particularly welcoming back our guests from Northern Ireland to swell the local ranks and there will also be the return of some “rough justice” dispensed at our Reivers Trials as part of the 16th Century Market Full details of all events are contained in the following pages and we hope you will take the time to read through and give your support. For over 300 years, whilst Scotland and England fought battle after battle, those living on both sides of the border made a living by “reiving” or raiding their neighbours’ property. They had their own system of laws and justice, and introduced new words into the English language, such as “bereaved” and “blackmail”. Their first allegiance was to their own family and their surname. Kith and Kin meant everything to them. Their enemies were not the English or the Scots, Chartered Accountants but any surnames at feud with them, no matter which side of the border they occupied. Do you have a Border Reiver surname? In 2019 Hawick Reivers Festival welcomes We’ll do the counting you to explore your family’s past with us here in the heart of reiving country. See how they lived and fought. Find their homelands and their strongholds. Choosing the right accountant is an important decision, that’s why we’d like to Perhaps even meet some of your own kith and kin. introduce ourselves to you as a firm that is more than qualified to handle all of So lets go Reiving again! your accountancy needs. We are indebted to Event Scotland Clan Fund, SBC Community Grant As one of the largest accountancy firms in the Borders, we have been advising Scheme, Hawick Common Good Fund and all of our local sponsors. Without their help, the festival would not be possible. private individuals and businesses alike for many, many years. With a full range of specialist services, we combine city standards with a genuine understanding of a rural area. Accountancy services GALASHIELS T 01896 753374 Audit HAWICK T 01450 372267 LANGHOLM T 013873 80730 Taxation specialists The HAWICK wilton lodge park PEEBLES T 01721 720947 OWNED AND Compliance EDITED LOCALLY www.thehawickpaper.co.uk PAPER the outdoor heart of hawick Business start ups EDINBURGH T 0131 322 1860 Payroll Business planning www.hawickreivers.com E [email protected] Please note that this programme is published in advance and may be subject to change at short notice. The organisers cannot be held responsible for any alterations to the programme of events that are deemed necessary. Growing business together www.jrwca.com 3 Meet the Ghosts of Liddesdale & Teviotdale Ghost Walks Friday 22nd March - 6.45pm & 8.00pm Start from Vennel by Textile Tower House Come and meet the Ghosts of Hawick past and hear the grizzly and gory stories of our ancestors! The Ghost walks have proved very popular in previous years and tickets are likely to sell out fast. The tours will last approximately 50min and will involve a short walk. Please dress warmly and bring along a small torch! Tickets: £4 each or £10 for family of 4 (2 adults and 2 primary age children) Tickets available from borderevents.com, ILF Imaging and Dorwards, Hawick Rum Heaven Rum Tasting (Over 18s Only) Friday 22nd March - 8.00pm (Doors open 7.30pm) Good luck & best wishes to The Auld Baths, Bath Street, Hawick The tasting will include six rums, sourced from Scotland & the Border regions, all involved in this year’s and advice on the “perfect serve” for each plus cocktail demonstrations. Tickets: £20 (MUST be booked in advance) Hawick Reivers Festival Tickets available from borderevents.com, ILF Imaging and Dorwards, Hawick RUM HEAVEN an evening with some of the best rums 18s Only) (Over created in Scotland & the Borders www.scottcharters.com 22 March 2019, 7.30pm for 8.00pm in Hawick Auld Baths, Bath Street Tickets: £20 (MUST BE PURCHASED IN ADVANCE) available from borderevents.com, ILF Imaging and Dorwards, Hawick BAR Raffle tasting & Cocktail demonstrations 5 Independent NYR CONSULTANT 16th Century B DYWISE www.uk.nyrorganic.com/shop/deborahlyons BEAUTY AND HOLISTIC THERAPY Let the experts take care of you… because every ‘BODY’ deserves it Market Calgel Nails - Colour Overlays Advanced LaStone Therapy Saturday 23rd March, 10.30am till 3pm, Indian Head Massage Facial Therapy Specialists Hawick High Street, Town Hall Area Remedial Massage Manicure/Pedicure/Waxing Aromatherapy Fake Bake Spray Tanning Including Reivers Trials, Live Entertainment, Reivers Games, Local Reiki Eye Treats & Make Up Trader’s Stalls and Family History Stalls. Refl exology Dermalift Facial Lift & Tone Hopi Ear Candles Eurowave Body Lift & Tone Lava Shell Massage Reivers GIFT VOUCHERS FOR THE PERFECT PAMPER SAFE, ORGANIC, PARABEN FREE PRODUCTS BY NEAL’S YARD REMEDIES Encampment 01450 377577 07962 274156 Saturday 23rd March, 10.30am till 3pm, Wee Haugh 7 Drumlanrig Square, Hawick TD9 0AS www.bodywisehawick.co.uk Full programme of re-enactments including displays of Musket Drills; hand to hand skirmishes and mock battles with static displays of life in the 16th Century Border Lands. TH TH COMING APRIL 15 20 2019 Featuring: Teviotdale Steel Bonnets, Living History Ireland, Best and Worst of Times, Les Amis d’Onno, Lothian Levy, Time Bandits and the Douglas Retinue Act 1 Youth Community Theatre present Reivers Clan & Family Village Saturday 23rd March, 10.00am till 3pm, High Street Meet the Border Clans and Families and learn about their history and also current activities. Reivers Procession Saturday 23rd March, 10.45am till 11am, Hawick High Street Opening event 11am Hawick Town Hall area featuring drumming Youth ACTABOUT COMMUNITY THEATRE 1 demonstration by Burnfoot Primary School. 7 Re-Enactment Groups TEVIOTDALE STEEL BONNETS This local based living history club, formed in 2009, is going from strength to strength. The club had its first event in England last year at Chesters Roman Fort – an event for English Heritage where the club attended a Border Truce Day re-enactment, complete with real sheep. The Hawick Reivers Festival is always a favourite and special event for the club, which kicks off their 2019 campaign. The group is always eager to share our passion; to bring alive the 16th century with our well researched kit (often hand- made) and tented displays. Come along and ask a question or two, even try on a steel bonnet. And if feeling under the weather – enquire for help and a possible prescribed leech, with the club’s ever popular barber surgeon, Dr Mort. LIVING HISTORY IRELAND We welcome back one of Northern Ireland’s largest re-enactment, living Come and visit our distillery, the first in the Scottish Borders since 1837. history group covering from Viking to WW2 and all in between attending See our carefully renovated building and experience its events from March every weekend to November. Taking a keen interest in industrial heritage as you learn about our distilling process. all periods of Ulster Scots history, they provide tented village dressed camps for most centuries that show all aspects of life We are open Monday - Saturday. and have a large collection of hand weapons, Tours run every hour and cost £12 which includes a 40 minute cannons, musket right up to modern. The camps tour of the distillery and a dram at the end. have all sorts of industry on show to enhance the public’s experience such as Black Smith, wool Online & mobile booking available. spinners, medics with the primitive tools, wood First tour: 10:00 | Last tour: 16:00 craft, kitchen display how food was prepared grinding corn and wheat and many more displays. Commercial Road BEST OF TIMES WORST OF TIMES Come to meet the re-enactment group ‘The Best of Times, The Worst of High Street Times’. Talk to Sir William Selby and his household. Hear of the jobs and appointments Sir William held in Berwick during Elizabethan Times. What raids and troubles did he and his family suffer? How did his good wife and family cope with the Parking is available on-site for blue badge holders only. hardships of the times. Sir William also keeps the For more travel information, see our website. company of one Gerald Charlton, a man known as ‘Topping’. A man held many times in Hexham’s Old Gaol and called a rogue on both sides of the T: 01450 374 330 E: [email protected] www.thebordersdistillery.com Border, but a man always found NOT guilty! Let Commercial Road, Hawick, TD9 7AQ them tell you of The Best of Times and The Worst of Times as they know them to be. 9 LES AMIS D’ONNO Les Amis Stunt team is Scotland’s première equestrian stunt troupe based right here in the Scottish Borders! Les Amis perform their live action arena shows all over the UK and Ireland with their beautiful Friesian & Andalusian horses. Equestrian Theatre specialists, the Les Amis team have just recently finished building Scotland’s first equestrian theatre at their farm near Hawick. Their busy summer schedule sees them performing entertainment shows from all eras - Roman to WWI - including their very popular Knights of the North Stunt Jousting show which recently won the repeat contract to provide jousting for Historic Environment Scotland events.