The Border Shepherds Show is held annually in Yetholm, a village in the Cheviot Hills, very close to the Border (http://www.yetholmonline.org.uk/home.html).
Yetholm is famous for its links to the Gypsies (http://www.scottishgypsies.co.uk/), because it forms the nothern end of the Pennine Way and for its show, which is a good un.
The show includes Cumberland Wrestling , horse-shoeing competitions, crook making competitions and sheep-dog trials in addition to lots of other country-type pursuits, e.g. beer drinking and winching!
We have no pics to offer, sorry. The band did, however, feature a host of new young drummers fresh off the Cockburn Brothers production line. Sadly, the same could not be said of the pipe core, most of whom who were there can easily remember decimalisation.
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