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New housing in Earlston
This housing development is at The Old Sawmill site on the eastern outskirts of the town. Viewed from the edge of the square from White Hill with Town Farm on the far right.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 8 Mar 2009
0.04 miles
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Houses at The Old Sawmill, Earlston
On what I assume was on or near the site of a sawmill.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 9 Dec 2022
0.05 miles
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Houses on East End, Earlston
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 7 Sep 2017
0.05 miles
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Houses at East End, Earlston
The rear of three different housing types. From the left, a modern house [on The Old Sawmill], the Red Sandstone Cleghorn Building [a semi-detached pair], and a terrace of four, with a harled finish.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 9 Dec 2022
0.06 miles
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A collared dove (Streptopelia decaoto)
This bird was resting on a headstone in Earlston Parish Churchyard.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 14 May 2014
0.07 miles
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An old gravestone at Earlston Parish Churchyard
The hourglass is a symbol of mortality and when upright it is a reminder to the passerby that time is running out. When it is horizontal it indicates that time has run out for the departed. The inscription below reads:
TIMES GLAS WITH RAPID COURSE
DOTH RUN
AND MAKES NO STOP NOT STAY
ALL MORTALL MEN PREPARE SHOULD
THEN
DEATHS SUMONS TO OBEY
The inscription on the other side of the stone reads:
MEMENTO MORI
HERE
LYES MARGARET NI
COL SPOUSE TO JAMES
BROUN MEALMAKER IN
FANS, WHO DIED FEBRY
6TH 1750 AGED 67 YEARS
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 28 Jan 2024
0.07 miles
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Earlston Parish Church of Scotland
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 3 Sep 2006
0.08 miles
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A symbolic gravestone at Earlston Parish Churchyard
Faint traces of a winged soul, a symbol of immortality, can be made out at the head of the stone, and the open book is often regarded as the bible to show religious devotion. The scales can either be the emblem of a merchant or represent the weighing of the soul on the Day of Judgement. I’d probably go for a merchant here as some kind of implement is below the scales. Unfortunately, the inscription has weathered badly.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 28 Jan 2024
0.08 miles
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Detail at Earlston Parish Church
A close up of the detailing on the Brown memorial
Image] displaying emblems of mortality in the form of an hourglass and skull with crossed bones.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 28 Jun 2008
0.08 miles
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Memorials at Earlston Parish Church
These 17th and 18th century carved memorials for the owners of Park Farm are set into the southeast external wall of the church. A stone on the far left, transferred from an older building, marks the successors of Thomas the Rhymer. It is inscribed:-
AULD:RYMR
RACE
LYES.IN:THIS
PLACE
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 28 Jun 2008
0.08 miles