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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/dark-dave/">Dark-Dave</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>Revisit to my 2015 Archives Photographs</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/dark-dave/">Dark-Dave</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>Deearnie back in 2015 <br />
Sliding down the hill</p>

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<p>Revisit to my 2015 Archives Photographs</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/dark-dave/">Dark-Dave</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dark-dave/54647702245/" title="Landscape Looking down towards St Abbs DSC_3149"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54647702245_e8b905715c_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Landscape Looking down towards St Abbs DSC_3149" /></a></p>

<p>Revisit to my 2015 Archives Photographs</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/dark-dave/">Dark-Dave</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>Up Stream Blue Stone Ford in the foreground <br />
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Revisit to my 2015 Archives Photographs</p>

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<p>Revisit to my 2015 Archives Photographs</p>

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<p>Dam on the river down stream of Blue stone ford <br />
Revisit to my 2015 Archives Photographs</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/23522083@N03/">Patrick Cray</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>Floors Castle, in Roxburghshire, south-east Scotland, is the seat of the Duke of Roxburghe. Despite its name it is an estate house rather than a fortress. It was built in the 1720s by the architect William Adam for John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe, possibly incorporating an earlier tower house. In the 19th century it was embellished with turrets and battlements, designed by William Playfair, for The 6th Duke of Roxburghe. Floors has the common 18th-century layout of a main block with two symmetrical service wings. Floors Castle stands by the bank of the River Tweed and overlooks the Cheviot Hills to the south.<br />
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Floors Castle is now a category A listed building, and the grounds are listed in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, the national listing of significant gardens in Scotland. It is open to the public. <br />
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Wikipedia</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/railcam/">Railcam</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>Even photographing from the shadow side can produce a reasonable shot. 170402 has just crossed Lugate Water as it approaches Stow Station with 2T75 (Tweedbank to Edinburgh). Lugate Water is a tributary to Gala Water, which it joins just behind the line of trees.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/railcam/">Railcam</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>Stow is a passing place on the Borders Railway. 170426 is departing Stow station for Edinburgh with 2T79 (on time) and 170401 is approaching Stow station with 2T80 for Tweedbank (running 4 minutes late).</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/23522083@N03/">Patrick Cray</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>Coldingham Priory was a house of Benedictine monks. It lies on the south-east coast of Scotland, in the village of Coldingham, Berwickshire. Coldingham Priory was founded in the reign of David I of Scotland, although his older brother and predecessor King Edgar of Scotland had granted the land of Coldingham to the Church of Durham in 1098, and a church was constructed by him and presented in 1100. The first prior of Coldingham is on record by the year 1147, although it is likely that the foundation was much earlier. The earlier monastery at Coldingham was founded by St Æbbe sometime c. AD 640. Although the monastery was largely destroyed by Oliver Cromwell in 1650,[1] some remains of the priory exist, the choir of which forms the present parish church of Coldingham and is serviced by the Church of Scotland. <br />
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Wikipedia</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/23522083@N03/">Patrick Cray</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>Coldingham Priory was a house of Benedictine monks. It lies on the south-east coast of Scotland, in the village of Coldingham, Berwickshire. Coldingham Priory was founded in the reign of David I of Scotland, although his older brother and predecessor King Edgar of Scotland had granted the land of Coldingham to the Church of Durham in 1098, and a church was constructed by him and presented in 1100. The first prior of Coldingham is on record by the year 1147, although it is likely that the foundation was much earlier. The earlier monastery at Coldingham was founded by St Æbbe sometime c. AD 640. Although the monastery was largely destroyed by Oliver Cromwell in 1650,[1] some remains of the priory exist, the choir of which forms the present parish church of Coldingham and is serviced by the Church of Scotland. <br />
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Wikipedia</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/23522083@N03/">Patrick Cray</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/dark-dave/">Dark-Dave</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>Just a bit of Fun !! 😂</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/dark-dave/">Dark-Dave</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>😂<br />
Revisited my photo archives</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/themynotts/">Bev & Paul Mynott</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>This was Sir Walter Scott's favourite view over to The Eildon Hills. In Roman times, the hills were called Trimontium (three hills), and there is a Trimontium museum in Melrose showcasing Roman remains found in the area.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/themynotts/">Bev & Paul Mynott</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/themynotts/54630306383/" title="Abbotsford House Interior - the Library"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54630306383_d39e687b3d_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Abbotsford House Interior - the Library" /></a></p>

<p>Here you can see letters and books that belonged to Sir Walter Scott</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/themynotts/">Bev & Paul Mynott</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>There is a bust of Shakespeare in this room as well as one of Sir Walter Scott</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/themynotts/">Bev & Paul Mynott</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/themynotts/54629220712/" title="Abbotsford House Gardens"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54629220712_c21f7930bb_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Abbotsford House Gardens" /></a></p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/themynotts/">Bev & Paul Mynott</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>Abbotsford is a historic country house in the Scottish Borders, near Galashiels, on the south bank of the River Tweed. Now open to the public, it was built as the residence of historical novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott between 1817 and 1825. It is a Category A Listed Building and the estate is listed in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland. (Information from Wikipedia)<br />
Ever since Walter Scott’s granddaughter Charlotte and her husband, James Hope Scott converted to Catholicism in the early 1850s, the family were devout followers of the faith. <br />
In 1853 they added a private wing to Abbotsford, creating a dedicated tourist route through the gardens and through the historic house, while steering the ever-rising visitor numbers away from the family’s home. The Catholic Chapel was added in 1855.<br />
James Hope Scott was an important figure in the Oxford Movement and a close friend of John Henry Newman (later Cardinal Newman, and now Saint John Newman). James Robert Hope-Scott and his wife Charlotte were received into the Roman Catholic church in 1851.</p>

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