Coldstream is a town and civil parish in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.
Coldstream Bridge over the River Tweed
The Ba' Game is a version of medieval football played in Scotland, primarily in Orkney and the Scottish Borders, around Christmas and New Year.
Coldstream
…piece of land is known as the Ba Green. It is said locally that every year the men of Coldstream would play the men of Wark (south of the river) at ba, and the winning side would claim the Ba Green for their country. As Coldstream grew to have a larger population than Wark, the men of Coldstream always…
Example of a ball used in the Kirkwall Ba game on display in the National Football Museum, Manchester.
The game of hand Ba' played in Jedburgh streets in 1901. The participants are dressed in black, mourning the recent death of Queen Victoria.
Jedburgh shops boarded up below where the game is in play
The laddies game in Jedburgh in 2020; on the left they reach for the ball and the uppies then take it to the right.