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Station Road, DUNS, TD11 3EL

This residential cul-de-sac took on the appearance of a rural lane during the heavy snowfalls in January 2010.

View eastward, towards Reston: ex-NBR Reston - Duns - Earlston - Greenlaw - St Boswells line. The line westward from here to Earlston was severed for many months by the effects of the Great Borders Floods of 12/8/48, but freight traffic was later restored - until complete closure from 19/7/65. The station and the line to Reston remained for passenger services until 10/9/51 and for goods until 7/11/66.

So called in reference to the Battle of Drumclog fought out near Strathaven in Lanarkshire in 1679. At the outset of the affray, the Royalist, 'Bonnie Dundee' tried to disperse a Conventicle (open air religious service) which was actually an organised army waiting to surprise the Royalist forces. In the ensuing battle, the Covenanters routed the king's troops. The bell once tolled in the Boston Church in Duns which later left the fold to join the Free Kirk in 1843. In 1929, it returned to the fold of the established Church of Scotland but closed for worship in 1953. The church was later demolished and replaced on the site by a sheltered housing complex, Boston Court. The church was originally named in honour of the Reverend Thomas Boston, born in Duns and later minister at Simprin and Ettrick Kirks. He is buried in Ettrick Churchyard.

One of Scotland's greatest men and arguably the most forward thinking man of the 13th century. John of Dunse (as it was then spelt) was so controversial because of his forward thinking, many thought he was mad. Hence the word dunse or dunce for a poor scholar. He was educated at the Franciscan Grammar school in Haddington and though he never joined the Franciscan brotherhood,he is revered within that order. There are Duns Scotus colleges on the Continent. This statue stands in the public park of his home town, Duns in Berwickshire.

A plaque on the rear of the memorial reads: "This monument was unveiled by Lt.Gen. Stanislaw Maczek in the presence of Lord Home of the Hirsel on the 13th September 1981".

The Police Station in Duns, Berwickshire.

Colourful buildings on the main square in the centre of this small Borders town.

Taken from the top end of Glebe Park in Duns as the low winter sun catches the Cheviot Hills. The Cheviots are some 20 miles to the south of Duns and the effect was achieved using a zoom lens.

Swings, a slide and roundabout make up an area of play equipment for children in the public park near Duns town centre.

The company in this picture, (I do not wish to name them after what they did to Broxburn) are in the process of selling up and leaving Scotland.