Plaque with a story
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Plaque with a story
Image: © Richard Dorrell Taken: 26 Jan 2020
Mounted on the wall of the Burgh Chambers in Galashiels is this plaque. The image is of the town's coat of arms, which features foxes trying to pick plums from a tree, and the inscription 'Sour Plums 1337'. A tale claims that the image commemorates a successful skirmish in 1337 against a band of Englishmen at a place called Englishman's Syke just outside the town. The English were gathering the wild plums of the district when they were surprised and overcome by a group of local men who, after their victory, called themselves "the sour plums in Galashiels".
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Image Location
Latitude
55.614397
Longitude
-2.806788