The earliest information we can find about a motor club in the area dates back to the early nineteen hundreds under the name of Berwick Motor & Cycle Club, possibly making the club one of the oldest in the UK.

Interrupted by the First World War it seems to have taken sometime to reform, eventually doing so in 1935 under its current name, running events at Haggerston Castle and subsequently moving on to utilise the wartime airfields at Winfield and Charterhall as sprint and race tracks. While these venues are no longer used for racing they still figure in the club's calendar of events.

Over the years there have been several well known local heroes involved in international motor sport, with Berwick & District Motor Club proud to boast among it's members names like double Formula 1 World Champion Jim Clark, Club President Andrew Cowan, Vice-President and Ladies World Rally Champion Louise Aitken-Walker MBE, Dominic Buckley along with his sons Dom and Neil and navigators Claire Mole and Doug Redpath also Doug Niven and Cameron Binnie on the race circuits to name but a few that everyone will recognise.

The Club has built a reputation for putting on quality events that competitors want. The Jewel in the BDMC Crown is The Jim Clark Memorial Rally, now probably the most popular rally in the country it is the only one held on closed public roads on the British mainland and a regular fixture in the British Rally Championship calendar. Also on the Club calendar are our annual Autocross at East Ord, a couple of Classic Rallies - The Berwick Classic (which from humble beginnings has grown into a major event and a round of the NESCRO Historic Championship) and The Johnston Trophy, Navigational events - The Buglass and The Chairman's Challenge, as well as club autotests and other club events, plus trips to other events to marshal. Added to that, the Club is always on the lookout for new venues and events to put on.

 http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=77415 Click on this link for the BDMC Haggerston Sprint !!