Old Photograph Cottage Borders Of Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage near Selkirk, Scottish Borders, Scotland.

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Old Selkirk. Selkirk owed its expansion in the mid-nineteenth century to its mills and the workforce they required, but this period of industrial fervour lasted only a century. However, in the town's heyday there were prosperous shops and myriad sporting clubs and associations. In this history of the town, this heyday is recaptured through more than fifty period photographs. Subjects include the public hall under construction, curling at Thorniehall, the horse-drawn coal cart on Curror Street, the railway station, the Corn Mill on Station Road, manoeuvres of the Lothian & Border Horse, the opening of the footbridge to Ettrickbank, the Common Riding, and the various rugby, soccer and cricket clubs. Old Selkirk.

Tour Scotland Border Pipes Video

Tour Scotland Border Pipes video. The border pipes are a type of bagpipe closely related to the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe. It is commonly confused with the Scottish smallpipe, although it is a quite different and much older instrument.

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Old Photograph Bowden Scotland

Old photograph of houses and cottages in Bowden, Scotland. The village of Bowden nestles at the southern slopes of the Eildons and is just three miles from the town of Melrose.



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Old Photograph Cross of Sacrifice Scotland

Old photograph of the Cross of Sacrifice, Dryburgh Abbey, Scotland.
This Cross of Sacrifice is identical with those which stand above the dead of Lord Haig's Armies in France and Flanders.

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Old Photographs Darnick Scotland

Old photograph of a shop, houses and people in Darnick, Scotland. A village near Melrose in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Roxburghshire. Places nearby include Abbotsford, Buckholm, Eildon, the Gala Water, Galashiels, Gattonside, Lindean and Newtown St. Boswells. The village's name was first recorded in 1124, and its name has changed from Dernewic, Dernwick and Darnwick to the present Darnick. Darnick Tower was built in ca. 1425, and another tower house, Fisher's Tower, is still recognisable by its remains; however there is no trace of the third tower.

Skirmish Hill by Darnick is the site of a battle which took place on July 18th, 1526, by the Scotts, the Kerrs and the Elliots, trying to intercept King James V who was then under the guardianship of the Douglas clan.

John Smith of Darnick created the Wallace Statue at Bemersyde House. His family were builders and masons during the first half of the 19th century, and they have to their credit an extension to Abbotsford, Dryburgh Abbey House, Eckford Church, Gattonside House, Hawick North Bridge, the bridge over the Hermitage Water, Melrose Parish Church, and Yetholm Parish Church.

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Old Photographs Peebles Borders Scotland

Old photograph of Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. This Scottish town is located at the confluence of the River Tweed and Eddleston Water, locally called the Cuddy. Initially a market town, Peebles played a role in the woollen industry of the Scottish Borders up until the 1960s. The annual local festival is called the Beltane, and involves, as with many Borders festivals, a Common Riding.



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Old Photograph Threave Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Threave Castle, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Located on an island in the River Dee, west of Castle Douglas, this Scottish castle was the home of 'Black' Douglas Earls of Douglas from the late 14th century until their fall in 1455. Tour Scottish Castles.



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Old Photograph River Tweed Scotland

Old photograph of the River Tweed, Scottish Borders, Scotland. In the background is Abbotsford House, which was at one time the residence of historical novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott. The River Tweed, or Tweed Water, is a river 97 miles long that flows east across the Border region in Scotland and northern England. The Tweed is one of the great salmon fishing rivers of Britain.



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Old Photograph High Street Hawick Scotland

Old photograph of the High Street, Hawick, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Old Hawick. Dating from the thirteenth century, Hawick has a proud history as a market town and the centre of the Borders' textile industry.

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Old Photograph Birgham Scotland

Old photograph of a shop, houses and cottages in Birgham, Scottish Borders, Scotland. A Scottish a village in the Berwickshire, parish of Eccles, near Coldstream and the River Tweed. Birgham is close to Ednam, Kelso, Lempitlaw, Leitholm and Sprouston as well as Carham and Wark.



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Old Photograph Hermitage Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Hermitage Castle, Scottish Borders, Scotland. The oldest part of Hermitage Castle dates back to the early 13th century and was built to repel marauding English bands who were very active at that time. Hermitage Castle has several ghosts.

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Old Photograph Wilton Dean Scotland

Old photograph of Wilton Dean, Scotland. A Scottish village on the A7, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on the Cala Burn, and close to the River Teviot. It is now often considered to be a suburb of Hawick which is situated very close to the village.



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Old Photograph Church Ettrick Scotland

Old photograph the old church and cemetery in Ettrick, Scottish Borders, Scotland. There has been a church at Ettrick for at least 800 years. The Poet James Hogg is known as the " Ettrick Shepherd " was born at a farm in Ettrick, by Ettrick Hall,and is buried in Ettrick Kirkyard.



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Old Photograph Peebles Scotland

Old photograph of Peebles in the Borders of Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Soutra Aisle

Tour Scotland photograph of Soutra Aisle, Scotland. Located just within the Scottish Borders, not far from Fala, is the remains of the House of the Holy Trinity, a church that was part of a complex comprising a hospital and a friary. The aisle has survived by having been the burial place of the Pringles of Soutra, now of Torwoodlee, with a lintel above the entrance dating from 1688.



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Photograph Rain Borders Scotland

A gnome keeps his nose just above the floodwater, at Hawick in the Scottish Borders. Photographic Print of WEATHER Floods from Press Association Images.

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Photograph Autumn Rainbow Scotland

Photograph of an Autumn rainbow over Moffat, Borders of Scotland. Photographic Print of Rainbow over Moffat from RSPCA.

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For three hundred years England and Scotland fought a bitter series of wars for territorial enlargement. Border Fury provides a fascinating account of the period of Anglo-Scottish Border conflict from the Edwardian invasions of 1296 until the Union of the Crowns under James VI of Scotland, James I of England in 1603.The book looks at developments in the art of war during the period, the key transition from medieval to renaissance warfare, the development of tactics, arms, armour and military logistics during the period, and the key personalities involved. Border Fury: England and Scotland at War 1296-1568.

Old Photograph Of Three Men From Borders Scotland

Old photograph of three men from the Borders of Scotland.



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