Picture this …

… a day in JULY 1995

Berwick Borough council’s Gordon Grant visits Berrington Lough to record the noise levels as Bandits’ skipper Kevin Little covers his ears.

Seven miles away the monitoring equipment was in situ again as Little, along with Anthony Barlow, Paul Gould, David Meldrum and William Beveridge are put through their paces on the sandy greyhound track surrounding the football pitch at Shielfield Park.

It would take another, at times frustrating  13 months but in August 1996 Berwick Bandits raced at their spiritual home in TD15 for the first time in 16 years – 190 months which saw stadium plans rejected both sides of the Borders, spells at Barrow and Glasgow, expulsion from the league, farmland at Berrington Lough transformed into the place where world champions raced, cup wins, a year in the top league, financial crises and thousands of memories.

But the Bandits were coming home.

Pictures: John Somervile Collection/Graham McCleary