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Osborne Place, BERWICK-UPON-TWEED, TD15 2HT

The Royal Border Bridge can be seen crossing the Tweed.

Looking along Osborne Road off Prince Edward Road.

Passing Pets at Home.

The majority of the structural steelwork has been erected for the new Pets at Home store which is being built on the site of a former furniture retailer at the Tweedmouth end of the Royal Tweed Bridge. The original building which had stood on the site since the 1930s can be seen in Image The site at the start of construction can be seen in Image

The late 19th Century building which is home to Tweedmouth West First School. The school teaches pupils up to the age of 9 from the local area.

Kiln Hill was once the main road leading to the Old Bridge over the River Tweed at Berwick . (This Bridge has just celebrated its 400th anniversary.) Behind these houses lay an old clay pipe factory, now demolished. The firm of Tennants ran a clay pipe making factory here in Tweedmouth from 1844 until 1915, when it burnt down. It was just across the road from the Tweed Dock where blocks of clay arrived by ship. It was then trundled up the alley to the factory. KILN HILL refers to the kilns in which the clay pipes were baked. One house on Kiln Hill is named Pipe House in homage to this past history.

This furniture retailer, Beds At Berwick, is located at the Tweedmouth end of the Royal Tweed Bridge and its junction with Ord Road and Northumberland Road. The crowd barriers seen on the pavement in front of the building are there to reserve an area for a band to play in when the olympic torch relay passes through the town later in the day.

The shop had been vacated days earlier by its previous occupant a local independent furniture retailer. Planning permission has been granted to demolish this 1930s Art Deco style building (which was originally built for the local co-operative society) and replace it with a retail unit which is proposed to be occupied by Pets At Home.