Stenlake Publishing - Old Newcastleton and Liddesdale
Old Newcastleton and Liddesdale
Author : Roy G. Perkins ISBN : 9781840334418 Cover : paperback Price : £7.99
This long overdue book looks at early twentieth century Newcastleton, Liddesdale, Riccarton, Bridgend and Kershopefoot and the people who lived, worked – and played – in these communities. Newcastleton’s shops around Douglas Square – Foster’s and Carruthers and Scott’s, one of its last hiring fairs, curlers on the new pond in the winter of 1903, and the Newcastleton contingent of the KOSB outside William Scott, the general merchant’s shop. Riccarton and its railways – Andrew and Thomas Easton at Bridgend Smiddy – the railway station and Kershopefoot and a family photograph of Stationmaster Wull Murray with his wife and daughters.