Places
36 places found.
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- Melrose, Borders
- Kelso, Borders
- Jedburgh, Borders
- Innerleithen, Borders
- Hawick, Borders
- Peebles, Borders
- Eyemouth, Borders
- Coldstream, Borders
- Lauder, Borders
- Galashiels, Borders
- Duns, Borders
- Selkirk, Borders
- Newcastleton, Borders
- Swinton, Borders
- St Abbs, Borders
- Dryburgh, Borders
- Hermitage, Borders
- Ancrum, Borders
- St Boswells, Borders
- Town Yetholm, Borders
- Abbotsford, Borders
- Newstead, Borders (near Melrose)
- Nisbet, Borders
- Smailholm, Borders
- Broughton, Borders
- Denholm, Borders
- Coldingham, Borders
- West Linton, Borders
- Kirk Yetholm, Borders
- Langshaw, Borders
- Gordon, Borders
- Border, Cumbria
- Blyth Bridge, Borders
- Burnmouth, Borders
- Balmoral, Borders
- Cockburnspath, Borders
Photos
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Memories
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Written While I Can Still Remember
I went to old Harlow College during the war. I remember walking across the fields to Harlow Mill where us boys used to swim. It was a very strict college with prefects. It was run on the style of the Cambridge ...Read more
A memory of Harlow by
"After The Fair" At The White Horse Hotel, Bampton
This view is exactly the same as the hotel now looks in 2008 - although sadly the landlord, Robin, died just this year. It was his wish that the traditional music and dancing that follows the Bampton ...Read more
A memory of Bampton in 2008 by
'swabies' Itchel Lane Crondall
There was a huge house with 5 acres of land, about 1/4 mile up Itchel Lane, on the left hand side as one walked up. The house had a 'wendy house' that looked down the road and was just visible through the hedge up the ...Read more
A memory of Crondall in 1957 by
'those Happy Byeways Where We Went And Never Come Again'.
I used to live just down the way from this stile and went walks through Cally Wood firstly with my friend Pauline Ellett and later with my husband and grandchildren. It's a lovely wood and used to ...Read more
A memory of Wordsley by
1958 1964
My name is Steve Whitfield, we lived in Whitecroft (on the Crossroads) and that is where I grew up. Went most of my time to boarding school with my two brothers, dating back to the 1960s. My father was employed as Chief Accountant for Jas. ...Read more
A memory of Quernmore by
1961 (Ish) Bridge Stores
We lived at Bridge Stores for several years during which time I went to the Infants and Primary School before going across the border to Heron Wood School. I remember playing in the Rec and making dens in the wooded area at the ...Read more
A memory of Tongham by
A Holiday Of Note
I can't pinpoint the year exactly, but it was definitely a year or two before 1953 which was the year I left the UK. I and three friends, student nurses at a hospital in Essex, decided on a holiday in Scotland. We chose Dollarbeg as ...Read more
A memory of Dollar in 1951 by
A London Evacuees Memories Of Midlem
I was evacuated from London before the German bombs started falling. I think it was in 1939 or 1940 that I arrived at The Manse. I was evacuated to Midlem, Selkikshire TD7 4QE modern postcode, on the Scottish ...Read more
A memory of Midlem in 1940 by
A Lovely And Historical Summer
My wife and I spent two months living in Melrose the summer of 2001. It was our home base as we travelled throughout the borders and the rest of Scotland. We chose Melrose for it's charm and convenience and rented Bow ...Read more
A memory of Melrose in 2001 by
Captions
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The market town of Haltwhistle straddles the present-day A69 a few miles from the border with Cumbria.
Being so close to the English border, indeed partly on the border, this town was and is the natural entry point into Wales for travellers and tourists.
The point from which this photograph was taken, Seed Hill, was at that time in Yorkshire, but looks over the border, defined here by the Hodder, across a corner of Lancashire.
The boathouse photographed here on the Essex/Hertfordshire border lies close to the interestingly named Carthegena Lock.
Within a short distance, the river becomes the border between Herefordshire and Gloucestershire.
Within a short distance, the river becomes the border between Herefordshire and Gloucestershire.
A small village with a common on the Portsmouth to Guildford main road near the Hampshire border.
Welshpool has had an anxious history, situated on the border with England, and has been destroyed on several occasions.
The military presence in the town and the museum of the South Wales Borderers - even the 13th-century cathedral was semi-fortified, which is most unusual - has perhaps helped maintain a sense of order.
Belford is just one of many places in Northumberland that suffered during the cross-border raids that were a feature of life in the North for several centuries.
Sir Walter Scott, poet and novelist, visited Burley and compared favourably the wild heathland thereabouts to his beloved Scottish border countryside.
Despite the fact that they were supposed to be on the same side when it came to defending the Borders, the Herons of Ford and the Manners of Etal did not always see eye-to-eye.
Motor vehicles dominate the scene in this market day picture, and at least one trader has crossed over the border from Lancashire to sell his wares.
The long-straw roof has an attractive patterned border and ridge.
It connects Norfolk to Suffolk over the River Ouse, making Thetford a border town.
Hartford lies between Huntingdon and St Ives, bordering on the Ouse.
The inn, one of the most famous in the area, lies on the Berkshire's border with Hampshire, just to the south of Newbury.
After 1856, a residence north of the border of not less than three weeks was required before a marriage could take place.
The Village 1901 This tiny, attractive hamlet close to the great manor house of Ightham Mote has one small shop, the Plough Inn selling beers brewed at Westerham near the county border, and
The Douglases were a powerful family: they were wardens of the Border Marches, lords of Galloway and skilled in war.
The original town was built around a six acre lake called the Mere, its southern edge bordered by a large village green.
Father and son admire the tidy flower borders and shrubs in what is now Tower Gardens, more than a century ago.
The Edge is not the highest point in the county; at the eastern border with Derbyshire the land rises to nearly 1800ft, and to over 1900ft at Black Hill in Longdendale.
So close to the English border is Knighton that the railway station and hotel are actually on English soil.
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