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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.

Thanks to Mary H for the lovely designs I used for my background, and thanks too to all of you who have chosen to support my blog by becoming "followers".

Tuesday, 10 February 2009

Tweedbridge lamp

These lamp standards on Tweed Bridge are so elegant, except for the silly little plastic-looking lights on the top! The lamps themselves used to be taller and grander but were replaced, to a great furore, a few years ago, by these tiddly little things! However the lamp bases are wonderful with a fabulously ornamental fish winding itself around each one, and the decorative cross bar where the lamplighter's ladder would lean if a gas mantel or glass pane had to be replaced in the days before they were electrified.

In the background, the snow covered hills above Glentress and Innerleithen.
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