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This blog is to introduce you to my town - Peebles, in the Scottish Borders - just one photo at a time, with perhaps a little description and maybe some history thrown in. I hope you will find it interesting. The title comes from a historical comment made by someone who preferred Peebles to the great and famous cities. I know how they felt. It's always a pleasure to return here however long you've been away.

If you want to make a comment, ask me a question, or merely just want to say "hello, I've dropped in", you can do that by using the comment section below each entry. (Just click on the word COMMENT and follow instructions. ) I'd love to know what you think of what you see of my town.

I don't have an expensive elaborate camera so the photo quality may not be brilliant, but I'd like to think my pics will please you. Looking forward to hearing from you.

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Thursday 8 January 2009

Whitie's

Further along the High Street, towards the church end, is another of Peebles' landmarks, Whitie's bookshop, newsagents and stationers. It was originally two shops with owners' accommodation upstairs but in 1886 it was refurbished as a show house for a builder, a Mr. Turnbull, another storey being added on and the present frontage added.
Sometime after this the upper storeys became the Caledonian Railway Hotel for some time, above what became a most successful bookshop. Today a room at the back of the building, once one of the original two shops and accessed from the passageway at the side of the building has been converted into a comfortable well stocked bookshop where a chaise longue sits in front of the old fireplace for browsers to relax on with their choice of reading, and shelves full of books, all of which I am sure that Douglas has read personally, line the walls!!!

The two upstairs storeys are again offering rest for the weary traveller in the form of a guest house run by Douglas's wife, with help from the family.
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