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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ]
In June 1888 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1891 was awarded their Royal Medal. [18] In 1899, he received the highest award of the Geological Society of London, the Wollaston Medal, in recognition of his outstanding work in the Southern Uplands, and Northwest Highlands of Scotland. There years later, in February 1902, he ...
The success of a Tamworth Natural History, Geological, and Antiquarian Society meeting held early in 1874, joined by the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society (BNHMS) led William G. Blatch, Honorary Secretary of the latter, to propose closer collaboration between local natural history societies. [1]
Abbotsford is a historic country house in the Scottish Borders, near Galashiels, on the south bank of the River Tweed.Now open to the public, it was built as the residence of historical novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott between 1817 and 1825. [1]