30 Anniversary Address. 



tistory possesses much interest, as it was at one time a burgh, 

 the site of considerable ecclesiastical establishments, and comes 

 frequently into notice in connection with the numerous invasions 

 and forays of the Scots previous to the union of the kingdoms. 

 It also stands in a district notable for the number of Eoman 

 remains found in it. The Eoman Wall is only two miles and a 

 half to the north ; and less than half a mile to the west of the 

 town, Corchester, the site of Corstopitum, the first station on 

 Watling Street to the north of the Tyne, has been productive of 

 many vestiges of the greatest of ancient military empires. Some 

 of these Eoman remains have been transferred to museums at 

 Newcastle and elsewhere ; but others are preserved in the neigh- 

 bourhood, and several inscribed and sculptured stones have been 

 built into the walls of houses and gardens in Corbridge itself. 

 One lighting on these relics of a byegone age, while sauntering 

 about the little town, is transported in thought to- the era of 

 a great but now vanished civilisation, and confesses himself in 

 the presence of a hoar antiquity. To add to the attraction of 

 Corbridge for the Club, it is situated in a fertile and beautiful 

 reach of the valley of the Tyne, and in the vicinity of several 

 ancient fortified places, two of which, Aydon Castle and Dilston 

 Castle, were visited by the party, which assembled at the Angel 

 Inn in Corbridge on Wednesday, August 30th. 



The following gentlemen were present at this meeting : — Eev. 

 James Farquharson, M.A., Selkirk, President ; Dr F. Douglas 

 and Mr Hardy, Secretaries ; Sir Walter Elliot, F.E.S., etc. ; Col. 

 J. Barras, of the East Indian Army; Eevs. J. E. Elliot-Bates of 

 Mnburn Hall ; J. F. Bigge, Stamfordham ; Henry B. Carr, 

 Whickham Eectory ; A. Johnson, Healey Vicarage ; David Paul, 

 Eoxburgh ; W^illiam Snodgrass, D.D., Canonbie ; John Walker, 

 Whalton ; E. H. Williamson, Whickham ; — Wilson, Hexham ; 

 Dr Charles Douglas, Kelso ; Dr Main, Alnwick ; Messrs Thomas 

 Arkle, Highlaws, Morpeth; John Balden, Dilston ; H. H. Blair, 

 Alnwick ; John B. Boyd, Cherrytrees ; W. B. Boyd, Faldonside ; 

 J. Bulman, Corbridge ; J. W. CoUingwood, Glanton Pyke ; M. H. 

 Dand, Hauxley Cottage ; J. T. 8. EUiot, yr. of Wolfelee ; Eobt. 

 Forster, Corbridge ; E. B. Gibson, Alnwick ; James Heatley, 

 Alnwick ; W. T. Hindmarsh, Alnwick ; J. L. Newbigin, Aln- 

 wick ; Eobert Eeed, Newcastle ; Eobert Eenton, Fans ; Adam 

 Eobertson, Alnwick ; John Turnbull, Abbey St Bathans ; W. 

 Willoby, Berwick. 



