Old Photograph Longnewton Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Longnewton village located on the Ale Water three miles South of St Boswells in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. John Younger, born 1785, died 1860, was a Scottish writer on angling, a shoemaker, and poet. He was born at Longnewton in the parish of Ancrum, Roxburghshire. As a young man he surpassed any poacher of the day in his knowledge of fur and feather, but, above all, he became an unrivalled angler. In 1811 he married Agnes Riddle, and settled at St. Boswells, some three miles from Longnewton, as the village shoemaker. About 1849 he was appointed the village postmaster, but the routine work proved beyond his patience, and in January 1856 he threw up the post and returned to cobbling. He died very poor, but was honest and industrious to the last and was buried in St. Boswells kirkyard beside his beloved wife who had died in 1856. A biography of John Younger was published at Kelso in 1881.



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