Abbotsford House of the house. It had electricity installed only in 1962. Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics. In 2005, Scottish Borders Council was considering an application by a property developer to build a housing estate on the opposite bank of the River Tweed from Abbotsford, to which Historic Scotland and the National
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