River Tweed at Coldstream:-

From same vantage point but looking towards the bridge at the border with England:-

I have featured Coldstream War Memorial before, a cenotaph inset into a wall, but this is a better photo:-

This time I took a close-up of the dedications and names:-

Home of Coldstream FC.

Unsurprisingly they play in Coldstream, the first village/town in Scotland when travelling over the border from England via the A 698.

The club was a founder member of the East of Scotland League in 1923 and is now that league’s longest serving member, playing in its First Division (its second tier, after the Premier,) the 7^th tier of Scottish football. It has long been eligible to play in the Scottish Cup.

Home Park lies at the edge of the town’s park, also called Home Park, the play area of which is to the left here:-

South end of the football ground:-

Looking north. The path beside the pitch (right) is a public footpath which has to be closed off for matches to be played.

We’ve been on our trips away again. We were based in Yorkshire for the most part but on the way down we went via Coldstream in the Borders, Berwickshire as was. It’s just over the River Tweed from England and is the “home” of the Coldstream Guards and also has ex-Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home‘s ancestral pile of The Hirsel (not open to the public) nearby.

The photos were taken with our new camera with which I’ve not yet fully come to grips.

Coldstream isn’t very big, but big enough to have a War Memorial. Very Cenotaph-like. Great War top plaque, Second World War below.

Up a side street there was a deconsecrated church which has at some time been converted to a Bar & Function Room. Perhaps it was in the 1930s for the entrance is deco!