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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".

Monday 24 August 2009

St Margaret's




It would be interesting to know the history of this old house facing Tweed on the south side of the river. The name and the ornamented front wall with its thistles and roses, the ornate door with its pair of lions, would suggest it was named for the Saxon Queen Margaret, wife of King Malcolm Canmore of Scotland, who was in fact canonised in 1250 almost 200 years after her death.
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