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The Borders
10/01/2012
RCAHMS has been working with the National Library of Scotland and the ‘Scotsman’ newspaper to tell the stories of the nation’s cities.
From intricate seventeenth century sketches and eighteenth century town plans, to pioneering Victorian photography and modern aerial survey imagery, the material from the RCAHMS National Collection is being used to produce visual timelines of the history of Scotland’s major cities and towns.
You can browse and buy all the imagery featured in the supplements – plus a lot more – in our series of galleries and through our online, searchable database of architecture and archaeology, Canmore.
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Selkirk Town House. West elevation (partially reconstructed) Preparatory drawing for 'Tolbooths and Town-Houses', RCAHMS, 1996. N.d.
© Crown Copyright: HES
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Gardeners at 'The Glen' Country House near Innerleithen, seated and standing in gardens, holding watering cans, shears, rakes and other gardening implements.
© RCAHMS
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Ettrick Mill, high mill and weaving sheds View from NE
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
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Selkirk, Philiphaugh Mill, interior View showing 250 hp twin tandem-compound mill engine of 1912
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
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Hermitage castle, oblique aerial view from the SE showing the outworks, early earthwork castle and the park pale in the background.
© RCAHMS
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View of the conservatory, Peebles Hydropathic Hotel, with a group of people, possibly the hotel manager Albert Max Thiem and family.
© Courtesy of HES (Bedford Lemere and Company Collection)
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View of Peebles Hydropathic Hotel from gardens.
© Courtesy of HES (Bedford Lemere and Company Collection)
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Sweetheart Abbey. Digital image of KB 740
© Courtesy of HES (Francis M Chrystal Collection)
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View of the former Railway station building and approach road in Galashiels. Closed to passenger traffic 1969.
© Courtesy of HES (Francis M Chrystal Collection)
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Old Roxburgh Castle. View of N curtain from NW mound o Henry VIII fort
© Crown Copyright: HES
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View looking across river Jed to Jedburgh Abbey.
© Courtesy of RCAHMS (John Hay Collection)
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Engraving showing detail of transept and tower. Titled: 'Jedburgh, The Tower & North Transept'.
© RCAHMS
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Engraving showing view from SE. Titled: 'South East view of Jedburgh Abbey, Roxburgshire'. 'Engraved by J Greig, from a painting by G Arnold, for the Border Antiquities of England & Scotland'. 'London. Published Sep 1812, for the proprietors, by Longman & Co Paternoster Row'.
© RCAHMS
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General view from NE of Stranraer Old Town Hall and a butcher shop and the Railway Inn
© Courtesy of HES (Francis M Chrystal Collection)
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View of detail of south side of nave, Melrose Abbey. The man in the image may be the photographer William Donaldson Clark.
© Courtesy of HES (William Donaldson Clark Collection)
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Engraved drawing illustrating the 'Pont sur le Tweed, pres de Galashiels' by FA Pernot.
© RCAHMS
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Page 27/2. View of Melrose Abbey from SE. Titled 'Melrose Abbey.' PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM No 146: THE THOMAS ANNAN ALBUM
© Courtesy of HES (Thomas Annan Album)
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Page 28/1. Interior view of Melrose Abbey. Titled 'Melrose Abbey.' PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM No 146: THE THOMAS ANNAN ALBUM
© Courtesy of HES (Thomas Annan Album)
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Melrose Abbey engraving of interior view of west window with figures. Titled ' Melrose Abbey. Drawn by D. Roberts, engraved by T. Jeavons.'
© Courtesy of HES. Illustration in Views in Scotland
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Melrose Abbey engraving showing the abbey in a wooded setting, from the east, with figures. Titled 'Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, from an original drawing by D. Roberts, engraved by J.C. Bentley. London, Simpkin & Marshall Stationers Coourt & T.W.Stevens, 10 Derby Street, King's Cross.'
© Courtesy of HES. Illustration in Views in Scotland
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Engraving showing general view of Smailholm Tower Titled: 'Smailholm Tower, Roxburghshire. Engraved by J Grieg from a painting by H Weber for the Border Antiquities of England and Scotland. Published 1815'.
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Pl. 49 Kelso. Copy of copper plate engraving titled 'Prospectus Oppidi Calsonis. The prospect of the town of Kelso. This plate is most humbly inscribed to His Grace John, Duke of Roxburgh, Marques of Bowmont & Cessford, Earl of Kelso, Viscount of Broxmouth, Lord Ker Cessford & Caverton, Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Roxburgh & Selkirk, Lod Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, and one of His Majesties Most Honble. Privy Council.'
© Courtesy of HES. Illustration from Theatrum Scotiae by J Sleezer
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Pl.50 Kelso Abbey. Copy of copper plate engraving titled 'Monasterium CValsonense. The Abby of Kelso. This plate is most humbly inscribed to John Inglis Esqr., Assistant Master of the Ceremonies.'
© Courtesy of HES. Illustration from Theatrum Scotiae by J Sleezer
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Selkirk Town House. West elevation (partially reconstructed) Preparatory drawing for 'Tolbooths and Town-Houses', RCAHMS, 1996. N.d.
© Crown Copyright: HES
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Gardeners at 'The Glen' Country House near Innerleithen, seated and standing in gardens, holding watering cans, shears, rakes and other gardening implements.
© RCAHMS
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Ettrick Mill, high mill and weaving sheds View from NE
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
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Selkirk, Philiphaugh Mill, interior View showing 250 hp twin tandem-compound mill engine of 1912
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
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Hermitage castle, oblique aerial view from the SE showing the outworks, early earthwork castle and the park pale in the background.
© RCAHMS
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View of the conservatory, Peebles Hydropathic Hotel, with a group of people, possibly the hotel manager Albert Max Thiem and family.
© Courtesy of HES (Bedford Lemere and Company Collection)
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View of Peebles Hydropathic Hotel from gardens.
© Courtesy of HES (Bedford Lemere and Company Collection)
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Sweetheart Abbey. Digital image of KB 740
© Courtesy of HES (Francis M Chrystal Collection)
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View of the former Railway station building and approach road in Galashiels. Closed to passenger traffic 1969.
© Courtesy of HES (Francis M Chrystal Collection)
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Oblique aerial view centred on Hermitage castle and moat, taken from the W.
© Crown Copyright: HES
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Sweetheart Abbey by R W Billings, 1848. The preparatory drawing for the engraved plate for 'The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland.
© RCAHMS
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Digital copy of drawings of war memorial, Chambers Institute, Peebles. Elevation to courtyard of Chambers Institute; plan; detailed elevation and plan of cross.
© RCAHMS
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Jedburgh Abbey Section through the choir looking W and Section through the crossing looking E.
© RCAHMS
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Old Roxburgh Castle. View of N curtain from NW mound o Henry VIII fort
© Crown Copyright: HES
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View looking across river Jed to Jedburgh Abbey.
© Courtesy of RCAHMS (John Hay Collection)
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Engraving showing detail of transept and tower. Titled: 'Jedburgh, The Tower & North Transept'.
© RCAHMS
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Engraving showing view from SE. Titled: 'South East view of Jedburgh Abbey, Roxburgshire'. 'Engraved by J Greig, from a painting by G Arnold, for the Border Antiquities of England & Scotland'. 'London. Published Sep 1812, for the proprietors, by Longman & Co Paternoster Row'.
© RCAHMS
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General view from NE of Stranraer Old Town Hall and a butcher shop and the Railway Inn
© Courtesy of HES (Francis M Chrystal Collection)
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View of the bronze 'Moffat Ram' and the town of Moffat. Titled: 'Moffat - main street looking south'.
© RCAHMS
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Distant view of Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott, with man in boat in the foreground. Titled: 'Abbotsford from river'
© RCAHMS
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View of detail of south side of nave, Melrose Abbey. The man in the image may be the photographer William Donaldson Clark.
© Courtesy of HES (William Donaldson Clark Collection)
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Engraved drawing illustrating the 'Pont sur le Tweed, pres de Galashiels' by FA Pernot.
© RCAHMS
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Page 27/2. View of Melrose Abbey from SE. Titled 'Melrose Abbey.' PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM No 146: THE THOMAS ANNAN ALBUM
© Courtesy of HES (Thomas Annan Album)
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Page 28/1. Interior view of Melrose Abbey. Titled 'Melrose Abbey.' PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM No 146: THE THOMAS ANNAN ALBUM
© Courtesy of HES (Thomas Annan Album)
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Melrose Abbey engraving of interior view of west window with figures. Titled ' Melrose Abbey. Drawn by D. Roberts, engraved by T. Jeavons.'
© Courtesy of HES. Illustration in Views in Scotland
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Melrose Abbey engraving showing the abbey in a wooded setting, from the east, with figures. Titled 'Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, from an original drawing by D. Roberts, engraved by J.C. Bentley. London, Simpkin & Marshall Stationers Coourt & T.W.Stevens, 10 Derby Street, King's Cross.'
© Courtesy of HES. Illustration in Views in Scotland
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Engraving showing general view of Smailholm Tower Titled: 'Smailholm Tower, Roxburghshire. Engraved by J Grieg from a painting by H Weber for the Border Antiquities of England and Scotland. Published 1815'.
DP 102166
Pl. 49 Kelso. Copy of copper plate engraving titled 'Prospectus Oppidi Calsonis. The prospect of the town of Kelso. This plate is most humbly inscribed to His Grace John, Duke of Roxburgh, Marques of Bowmont & Cessford, Earl of Kelso, Viscount of Broxmouth, Lord Ker Cessford & Caverton, Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Roxburgh & Selkirk, Lod Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, and one of His Majesties Most Honble. Privy Council.'
© Courtesy of HES. Illustration from Theatrum Scotiae by J Sleezer
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Pl.50 Kelso Abbey. Copy of copper plate engraving titled 'Monasterium CValsonense. The Abby of Kelso. This plate is most humbly inscribed to John Inglis Esqr., Assistant Master of the Ceremonies.'
© Courtesy of HES. Illustration from Theatrum Scotiae by J Sleezer
