Old Photograph Clock High Street West Linton Scotland

Old photograph of the clock on the High Street in West Linton in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. To commemorate his wife and family, James Gifford, a Linton laird, in 1666 erected a statue on top of the village well where it served as the Market Cross. The pedestal was rebuilt in 1861 and bears the inscription " The Lady Gifford's Well, Erected 1666, Renewed 1861. " The Well is now combined with an octagonal stone clock tower. This is a village and civil parish in the Tweeddale area of the Scottish Borders previously the in the historic county of Peeblesshire. At the end of the eighteenth century there were between twenty and thirty looms in the village, rising to about eighty in the early nineteenth century, some weaving household goods but most weaving cotton cloth for Edinburgh and Glasgow merchants. It is estimated that in 1834 about fifty hands worked in the mines and quarries of the area. In 1834 there were five tailors in the village, four dressmakers, two butchers, five carriers, nine retailers of meal, groceries and spirits, two surgeons and four innkeepers. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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