Old Photographs Broughton Scotland

Old photograph of Broughton in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. John Buchan, the author, was was the first child of John Buchan, a Free Church of Scotland minister, and Helen Jane Buchan. He was born in Perth, Perthshire, and brought up in Kirkcaldy, Fife. He spent many summer holidays with his grandparents on a visit to Broughton. There he developed a love of walking, as well as for the local scenery and wildlife, which often featured in his novels; the name of a protagonist in several of Buchan's books, Sir Edward Leithen, is borrowed from the Leithen Water, a tributary of the River Tweed.

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