152 REPORT OF MEETINGS FOR 1904 



Berwick-on-Tweed. 



The Annual Meeting was held on Thursday, 13th October, 

 in the Museum, at 1 o'clock. Among those present were 

 the following: — Mr Q. G. Butler, President; Captain Norman, 

 E.N., Organizing Secretary; Eev. J. J. M. L. Aiken, Editing 

 Secretary ; Mr George Bolam, Treasurer ; Mr Eobert Blair, 

 F.S.A., South Shields; Mr J. L. Campbell Swinton, Kimmer- 

 ghame ; Lady Eliott, Maines House, Cliirnside ; Eev. J. A. 

 Findlay, Edinburgh; Captain J. A. Forbes, E.N., Berwick; 

 Mr George Fortune, Duns ; Dr E. Shirra Gibb, Boon ; Mr 

 G. T. Hughes, Middleton Hall; Mr John Lang and Mrs 

 Lang. Highlaws ; Major J. F. Macpherson, Edinburgh; Mr 

 J. L. Newbigin, Alnwick ; Mr H. Eutherfurd, Fairnington ; 

 Mr T. B. Short, Berwick; Miss Simpson, Coldingham ; Mr 

 Jas. A. Somervail, Broomdykes; and Mr William Weather- 

 head, Berwick. 



On the arrival of the 11-51 train from Edinburgh the 

 Organising Secretary conducted a party to the 

 Edwardian West of the Eailway buildings to view the 

 Walls. remaining fragments of the ancient fortifi- 



cations of the town, which have been threatened 

 to make room for villas, sanctioned by the Berwick Town 

 Council, on the site of the old fosse encircling the walls of the 

 town. A protest having been lodged by the Club officials 

 against proceeding with this wanton vandalism, special interest 

 was manifested in portions of the wall still standing, which 

 were described as merging in a square battery of more recent 

 date, known as "the murderer," which stands at the North- 

 west corner of the present enclosure. The ashlar work of the 

 ancient wall, as well as of the Castle itself, has been destroyed 

 in order to supply material for the erection of the new 

 parish church and other public buildings, and only here and 

 there throughout its whole length are there any traces of its 

 perfect surface. Moving on towards the river, and halting at 

 the Water Tower, which formed the original sea-entrange to 



