The club celebrate the event each year with a ceremony on the bridge next to the plaque marking his journey over to England but as this is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, leading to a national Homecoming programme encouraging Scots from across the world to visit their homeland, Coldstream Burns Club decided their bridge ceremony should be the focus of their celebrations.
Over 100 club members and invited guests set out from the town's community centre at lunchtime on Sunday, with pipers Robert Bell and Frank Mount, plus standard bearer Martin Johnston leading the way.
Amongst the guests were representatives from the Robert Burns World Federation including Bill Dawson, president, Mike Duguid, Snr. vice president, David Baird, Jnr. vice president and Shirley Bell, chief executive.
As they made their way along Coldstream High Street towards Coldstream Bridge they were joined by Roberts Burns (Duncan Bell) and Robert Ainslie (Andrew Tait) on horseback.
The two riders, both Coldstream Burns Club members and ex-Coldstreamers, re-enacted the famous crossing 222 years ago.
On reaching the bridge the horses stopped alongside the Marriage House while the procession crossed the bridge and took up position at the designated spot on the riverbank on the English side.
On a given signal the horses crossed the bridge, watched by a good number of spectators, and rode down the track to the riverbank to join the assembled company.
They dismounted and while Ainslie tended the horses, Burns, as he had done all these years ago, standing on English soil for the first time, doffed his hat, knelt down and recited the last two stanzas of his poem 'The Cotter's Saturday Night' which are in the form of a blessing on Scotland.
"Duncan, looking very much the part in period costume, carried off the re-enactment with aplomb," said club secretary John Elliot.
"The costumes worn by the re-enactors were specially made by Pauline Seeward, with assistance from Joy Thomson, effort and help very much appreciated by the club."
The re-enactment was followed by Pipe Major Rob Bell, Duncan's father, playing Burns's 'A man's a man for a that', and Rev Jim Watson stepped onto the dais to deliver a prayer couched very much with Burns in mind.
After welcoming everyone to the ceremony chairman Rob Smith introduced club secretary John (Humie) Elliot, who proposed the toast to Scotland's national bard.
In his toast John gave a brief history of Burns's visit to the town, reminding everyone of the significance of this year's ceremony which was taking place in the 250th anniversary year of Burns's birth then concluding on a more up-to-date note when he pointed out that at his inauguration ceremony President Barack Obama had sworn the oath of allegiance on Abraham Lincoln's bible.
Lincoln, who Obama greatly admires, held Burns in the highest regard and openly expressed that fact. John observed that it is almost certainly the case that the same bible would have sat alongside Lincoln's editions of Burns's works.
The second toast of the afternoon was to Coldstream Burns Club and was delivered by Archie McArthur from Kelso, a long time friend of Coldstream Burns Club. Archie, at 92 years of age, was able to go back in time and remember many of the club stalwarts over the years, praising both them and the club and wishing it continued success for the future.
After a brief interlude for photos to be taken and radio interviews to be given the assembled company returned to the bridge where they gathered round the Burns plaque in the centre, put there by the club in 1926 to commemorate Burns's visit.
Wreaths were laid by Jim Davidson, club president, John Caskie, president of the Howff Club and David Baird, president of the Scottish Southern Counties Burns Association; followed by a lament played by Piper Bell.
The procession then retraced its steps to the town centre, stopping briefly at the interpretation board erected by the club two years previously to tell the story of Burns's visit to a wider audience.
Once in Coldstream Community Centre a traditional Burns afternoon began, with the haggis being carried in high by Robert Ainslie (Andrew Tait) to the skirl of Rob Bell's pipes to be addressed in rousing fashion by the bard himself(Duncan Bell)
This was preceded by 'The Tribute to Burns' given by Bill Dawson, president of the World Federation.
He delivered an emotional speech in which he clearly expressed his admiration for his subject and also for Coldstream Burns Club for as he put it "the outstanding ceremony at the Bridge" and everything that had followed on from then.
On completion of the meal the assembled company were treated to a fine afternoon of Burnsian entertainment provided by the very best of local talent
In his vote of thanks chairman Rob Smith heaped deserved praise on all who made a contribution to the afternoon, singling out club secretary, Humie Elliot, the main organiser of the day's events, for particular plaudits, a sentiment echoed by the company in the standing ovation which followed.
In his vote of thanks on behalf of the guests Mike Duguid Snr, vice president of the Robert Burns World Federation, was effusive in his praise of the whole day from start to finish and of Coldstream Burns Club itself.
The afternoon drew to a close in the traditional fashion with everyone singing an emotional 'Auld Lang Syne'.