Old Photograph Hume Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Hume Castle located between Greenlaw and Kelso, two miles north of the village of Stichill, in Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. First mentioned in the twelfth century, the castle was the seat of the powerful Home family. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the English besieged the castle no less than four times. During the first of these sieges, it was Lady Home who was required to defend her home and it only fell when the attackers began to hang her young son within her view. The castle was reportedly destroyed in 1651, after it fell to Cromwell's troops. Though rebuilt as a folly in the eighteenth century, the castle resumed a military role during the Napoleonic wars, when it became the site of a signalling beacon. A nation wide panic almost ensued when an accidental fire in Northumberland was spotted and misinterpreted. In World War II, an observation post was also located here.



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