Old photograph of the W P Bryden Shop on the High Street in Biggar, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Locational names were originally given as a means of identification to those who left their village or place of origin to settle elsewhere and the surname Bryden is mainly found in Scotland and Northern England. Phelippe de Briden of Roxburghshire rendered homage in 1296. William Brydonne, is noted in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1371.
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