December 2010
4 posts
More wintry scenes at the Heritage Hub
The Heritage Hub with St Mary’s Kirk behind and the Slitrig river below.
The Slitrig is famed for the way it “dances doon the glen” to join the Teviot. Not doing much dancing today.
Neither is this one.
Photos by: Sarah @ the Heritage hub Posted by: Sarah
A Regency Christmas Party
AN UPDATE TO THIS STORY! - with the help of colleagues at Perth and Kinross Archives we’ve discovered the true identity of the author of this diary. His name was Ebenezer Faichney. The Stein or Steven connection is a family connection for him. We know he was born on Perthshire in 1754 and some other family details that will enable to uncover more! He was buried in Dryburgh Abbey in...
Wintry weather bemusement
The Heritage Hub was looking so beautiful in the winter light with all the snow and ice that I just had to grab the camera and take a few pictures. But the most interesting ones turned out not to be of the Heritage Hub, but of our wildfowl neighbours who live in the river beside us - one of whom was looking distinctly bemused by the weather conditions!
It may be an anthropomorphism, but this...
Slow Coach to Galashiels: 19th November 1846.
Images of stage coaches on Christmas cards look colourful, dashing and rather romantic, but what was the reality like for our ancestors travelling 164 years ago A news item in “The Border Watch” of 19th November 1846 paints a rather different picture. “A SLOW COACH. – The Edinburgh and Hawick coach, which left Princes Street, Edinburgh on Saturday afternoon at 4pm did not reach the...