Eyemouth, statue of Willie Spears
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Eyemouth, statue of Willie Spears
Image: © Jonathan Thacker Taken: 21 May 2012
Willie Spears led a revolt against the custom of the Church of Scotland taking tithes of the fishing catch. The dispute ran for some twenty years before in 1861 the fishermen agreed to buy themselves of out of the tithe at a cost of £2000.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.872105
Longitude
-2.089307