As its name suggests the village of Cove in Berwickshire – just over the A1 from Cockburnspath where my friend Eric Brown lives – is near to a cove.

This cove:-

The path down to the actual cove goes past this memorial which commemorates the women and children left by the fishing disaster of 14th October 1881 when 189 fishermen were lost off this coast. Cove lost 11 out of 21 fishermen.

The path goes through a tunnel cut through this bluff; the cove itself is therefore very secluded:-

On the harbour wall there are bollards for boats to tie up to. They show interesting accretions of rust:-

Cockburnspath Kirkyard contains several gravestones commemorating war dead.

This one names no less than three Paxtons who died in World War 1:-

William A Watson was killed in action in France on 24/4/1918:-

This is one of those grey stones of the kind that also appear in Crail Kirkyard. Guardsman T Scott died post-war on 22/11/1918 – 11 days after the armistice:-

Sergeant W Paxton, RAF, (a relative of the three WW1 Paxtons?) Died 1/10/1941:-

Sergeant A H S Evans, RAF. Died 24/2/1941:-

This commemorates Stephen Falconer Dunnett, killed in Malaya, 1945:-