Old Photograph Market Cross High Street Peebles Scotland

Old photograph of Market Cross on the High Street in Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. Peebles Market Cross formerly stood at the intersection of the High Street, Northgate and Eastgate. In 1807 it was demolished, having become ruinous, but the shaft and head were given to Sir J Hay, who re-erected them at Kinsmeadows, where the cross stood in 1856. In 1859 it was returned to the town by Sir A Hay, and placed in the centre of the quadrangle of the Chambers Institute. In 1895, the cross was re-erected on its original site, on another pedestal; then in 1964 the cross was removed to its present position, a few yards East of the former one, and mounted on a new pedestal.



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