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June 20th 2010:
49th
Annual Jimmie Guthrie Memorial Run for Vintage
Cars & Motor Cycles..
A
beautiful summers day saw the crowds out in
force to enjoy the delights on the village
Green. The car boots were bursting and the turn
out of vintage vehicles was a fabulous sight to
behold..
Photo Gallery of the day here..
December 2009: Boxing Day Hunt on the village
green..
The
ground was too hard for the horses but there was
plenty support all the same!
JUNE
2009: 48th Annual Jimmie Guthrie memorial Run
for Vintage Cars and Motorcycles took place on
Sunday 21st June.
The
results are;
Fuears Shield: 1935 Morris, G Grierson, Ancrum.
Presented by Scott Tait.
Steve Hislop Quaich: 1957 MV AGUSTA N Rowan,
Pitlochrey. Presented by Margaret Hislop.
Mary Steel Rose Bowl: 1962 Austin Healy, D
Stewart, Aberlour. Presented by Marilyn Douglas,
New Zealand.
Jimmie Guthrie Cup: 1912 Triumph, J Hill.
Cramlington. Presented by Marilyn Douglas, New
Zealand.
MAY 2009:
Denholm rises to Bogie
Challenge
The inaugural Border
Bogie Challenge has been hailed a runaway
success with 30 entries taking part in the
event down Denholm's Dean Road and Westgate,
thrilling the spectators who were rewarded for
braving the occasional bursts of rain with
some top-class entertainment. The bogeys came
in all colourful shapes and sizes including a
tank, toilet floor equipped with cistern and a
Norman Church. The winning team was Team
Slammer, from Aberdeenshire, who recorded the
fastest aggregate time of one minute 14
seconds over three runs. They also claimed the
Thomas Crapper Award for the best engineered
bogie. Managing director of Thomas Crapper,
Simon Kirby, presented the trophy, which he
had only finished making at 4am on Saturday
morning.
The fastest bogie belonged to Team Tunbridge
and the kids' race winner was Haggis Hunters.
Best dressed bogie was Frog-o-dile, owned by
Rob Taylor, from Ancrum.
The Borders Vintage Automobile Club Award went
to Tom Armstrong-Wilson, from Canonbie, who
performed a massive hand-brake turn at the end
of the course to wow the spectators.
A Gallery of 34 photographs from the day can be
viewed here..
APRIL 09:
STRICTLY DANCING: The very successful Strictly
Dancing Denholm style, which was held in the
Cross Keys, raised £1500 for Bowell Cancer UK.
Well done to all the participants and the
organisers for this superb event both in Hawick
and Denholm!
NEW
MINISTER: The Reverend Douglas Nichol has been
appointed minister for the linked charges of
Ruberslaw and Hobkirk.
Community Orchard for Denholm
Following the
recent talk in the village about Crailing
Community Orchard a group from Denholm are
interested in establishing a Community Orchard
for Denholm.
They have
chosen to start by mapping the fruit
trees already in the village. Most are cared for
and harvested with varying degrees of success -
and the group are keen to see a community
service develop which helps to look after the
fruit trees in the village and organise the
buying and selling or processing of the fruit
that each household can't make good use of. This
would make the most of the tremendous natural
asset that the village already has, alongside
considering any new planting. It is also hoped
that the old varieties of fruit tree still
growing in the village can be preserved for
future generations.
Lynn Ferguson
in the Post Office has kindly allowed the
group to display a map, and information sheet
within The Auld Bakery for people to list the
information about their fruit trees which could
be part of this new venture. The map will be up
for the next month so anyone interested in
being part of the project, either with or
without fruit trees in their gardens, are
invited to leave their details.
MARCH2009:
Plans are on display in the
village shop window of the proposed alterations
to the main road through Denholm. These include;
Advanced warning of pedestrian
crossing (exact location to be confirmed),
Installation of pedestrian islands, Installation
of vehicles activated speed sign, Provision of
coloured surface texture and Provision of 30’s
countdown signs.
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