The Cauld

Just a bit of the cauld or weir. It's flowing gently just now because there hasn't been the rain and bad weather we had in the winter.

Peebles old and new

Looking across the river to the church, with the 1980s swimming pool on the riverside, where a tweed mill stood till a fire destroyed it in the 1960s I remember the tall chimney from when I was a child, visiting Peebles with my family. The area of green on the left was probably where the original settlement of Pebyls was in prehistoric times.

Hay Lodge and Riverside House

Much the same view as yesterday's but including Riverside House, built as a hotel apparently, but transformed into retirement flats more than 25 years ago. Perhaps I'll put my name down for one of these - as long as I can have one with a river view.

Hay Lodge

This was once the home of the Hay family whose grounds became our local park. The house now belongs to the National Health Service.

Police Brae

Locally they called it Police Brae because the Police Station was on the corner at the top of the brae. It's real name is Port Brae as this was where the gate or port into Peebles was located centuries ago.

The river

Well, I still haven't had a lot of time to go out on a Peebles photoshoot, but I do have a few more pics. I just thought of course that I have more photos of Peebles on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/52909343@N06/sets/72157624628402139/ though I'm not much better at posting there than here. However, maybe I can set up a few to post daily for the next few days.
Here's the river, as you look down towards the bridge and the church.

No takers?

No takers! Oh dear. What's to be done? Maybe I'll try and post several photos at once when I can, but with titles only. Of course you can still see photos of Peebles in my personal blog here from time to time!
I'll have a think about this blog though!

Meanwhile here are a few winter photos, from December. The snow started, unusually for these days, in November. First the Christmas tree outside the parish church. then fog and a bridge lamp followed by the nativity scene on the parish church steps and the parish church in freezing fog.

Update

Well, so far nothing has happened through the photographic club. Is there anyone else in Peebles who would be willing to take this on?

Big apologies

I have to offer you my apologies for letting this website lapse for so long. I am finding in retirement that I have so much to do that I really haven't got the same amount of time to get out and just take photos, then come home and write about them. You will probably notice that in my other blog too! Tonight is our Photographic Club meeting and I am going to ask if there is anyone there who would like to take over this blog.

I'll let you know what happens!
Once again - sorry! I know you enjoy Peebles along with me.

So sorry it has been so long since I posted here. You'll notice I have removed the cbox for messages. That was because there were so many folk writing inappropriate messages. So if you want to write a message, click Comment and go from there. So, it was the summer when I last showed you a picture of Peebles so let's see where we go from there.


Well, before I post anything else, I want to show you an email I received today, concerning this photo that I posted here about this time last year. See it here. Loved the description, and the bit of comparatively recent history. Thanks CD.

" Huge thanks for posting this pic, it was my best climbing tree from age 7-16. We had a rope on the branch that reaches out and we kept it up top when not in use so that it was fairly secret (though I don't think we put it there).

Rather than getting on at ground level you mounted it while standing on the wall and did what age 7 felt like a death defying leap off the wall with your legs straight out so they just missed the ground as it flew down the bank and out over the Tweed. Thrilling.

Years of tree climbing built up strong arms which came in handy as that part of the Tweed is also where aged 8-10 I was to be seen 'rescuing' rowing boats between May and August. My mum worked at 'the Boats' which were just up river at the other end of the path that this beech is on (boat shed may still be there).

There was a barrier rope to mark where people should turn back but quite often someone would struggle and end up heading towards the weir in a panic, at which point I was dispatched in a separate boat to nip down and tow them back.

Being towed by a child was especially embarrassing for men who'd taken their families out for a treat but I absolutely loved doing it. There were two jetty's, one either side of the river but the one that you set off from seems to be gone now. There was also a Pitch 'n' Put there, just below the embankment that has the stone entrance to what we were told was an ice store for Neidpath Castle in the past.

Thanks for bring back lots of great memories.
CD"

CD is right. The jetties have gone, though I now wonder if what I know as the fishing jetty was perhaps the one on the other side? CD? I only know of the putting green that used to be on Tweed Green, but I know where CD is talking about. The stone ice store is still there, but I wonder again if it was more likely to be the store for Hay Lodge, as it's quite far from Neidpath Castle? Hope to hear from you again, CD. I'd like to hear more of your stories.