Old Photograph Tourists Eating Lunch By Darnick Tower Melrose Scotland

Old travel photograph of tourists eating lunch by Darnick Tower near Melrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Darnick Tower has been a property of the Heiton family from 1425 and they built the tower. King James V was sheltered here during the Battle of Melrose in 1526. The tower was burnt and ‘cast down’ by the Earl of Hertford in 1545, although it was rebuilt by 1569. Sir Walter Scott greatly admired Darnick Tower and wished to purchase it, but he was refused.



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