Linlithgow Marches
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Linlithgow Marches
Image: © AlastairG Taken: 16 Jun 2009
See Image] for details. This is the final act of the day. Having inspected the town's boundaries, the Lord Provost, Norman Cummings (here waving a piece of paper à la Chamberlain) reports that the boundaries are secure for another year and that the inspection party had travelled, "safe oot, safe in". Unusually, the speech was made from the Cross Well (an 1807 copy of a previous well destroyed by Cromwell) as the Town Hall to the right, was undergoing extensive restoration work. The work is hidden behind a printed screen Image The building behind the well is the Cross House (1700), the only building on the west side of the Cross to survive the urban vandalism of the 1960s.
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Image Location
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55.977113
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-3.600206