Abbotsford Club Abbotsford Club The Abbotsford Club was a text publication society founded in Edinburgh in 1833 or 1834. This was the year after the death of Sir Walter Scott, whose residence of Abbotsford House gave the society its name, and whose literature the club's publications sought to illuminate. The club was modelled on the Roxburghe Club, of which Scott himself had been a member, as well as the Bannatyne Club, which was founded by Scott, and the Glasgow-centred Maitland Club. The founder and first secretary of the club was William Barclay Turnbull, a young Edinburgh lawyer. The stated objective of the
The Tweed Daily with W.T.K Baird as publisher. On 1 November 1986, the Tweed Newspaper Company commenced publication of the "Tweed and Gold Coast Daily News", which split into the "Tweed Daily News" and the "Gold Coast News" in 1989. The "Tweed Daily News" changed its name to the "Daily News" in 1993, then to the "Tweed Daily News" in 2007. In 2011 it changed back to the "Daily News", also published as the "Daily News: Tweed, Murwillumbah and Southern Gold Coast". In 2014, the name changed to the "Tweed Daily News" and it became available online. This paper has been digitised as