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Upload another image Cornmill Square, Monument To Sir Walter Scott 55°36′54″N 2°48′26″W / 55.614986°N 2.807355°W / 55.614986; -2.807355 (Cornmill Square, Monument To Sir Walter Scott) Category C(S) 31980 Upload Photo Dale Street, Netherdale Mill 55°36′32″N 2°47′07″W / 55.608812°N 2.78537°W / 55.608812; -2.78537 (Dale Street, Netherdale ...
Old Gala house by night. Old Gala House is a museum and conference centre situated in the Old Town area of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.The building was originally built as a tower house in 1457 by the Hoppringill (Pringle) family, who had been granted the lands of Gala by the Earl of Douglas.
Main Entrance. Borders Family History Society, (BFHS), founded in 1985, is a members and research society which concentrates on the Scottish Borders region in south-eastern Scotland, comprising the ancient pre-1975 counties of Roxburghshire, Berwickshire, Selkirkshire and Peeblesshire, as well as small parts of the former counties of Midlothian (formerly Edinburghshire), and adjacent counties ...
Galashiels (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ə ˈ ʃ iː l z /; Scots: Gallae, [2] Scottish Gaelic: An Geal Àth) [3] is a town in the Scottish Borders with a population of around 12,600. Its name is often colloquially shortened to "Gala". [ 4 ]
Pringle is a placename derived from a locale in the Parish of Stow on the right side of Gala Water, about ten miles North of Galashiels. Hoppringle lies about one half mile up from the bank of the river on the Southern slopes of a ridge separating the valleys of the rivers Armet and Todhole (now named Armet Water and Toddle Burn).
In 1840 he inherited the family home of Gala House in Galashiels and became 9th Laird of Gala. [2] In 1853 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [3] In 1872 he commissioned the Edinburgh architect David Bryce to build a New Gala House in the Scots Baronial style; this work was completed in 1876. This house - known in its ...
A family history society or genealogical society is a society, often charitable or not-for-profit, that allows member genealogists and family historians to profit from shared knowledge. Large societies often own libraries, sponsor research seminars and foreign trips, and publish journals.
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