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Statue of Souter, Selkirk
Souter is the Scots name for shoemaker.
Shoemaking was the main trade in Selkirk until the textile trade arrived - the Shoemakers' Guild was founded in 1609 and survived until the 1960s. The trade lived on until 1975 when John Guthrie, the last shoemaker, retired. This statue on Kirk Wynd in the area known as Selkirk Regis is a monument to the great tradition. Many people surnamed Souter still live in Selkirk.
(Information from Town Trail booklet.)
Image: © Barbara Carr
Taken: 3 Jun 2013
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Fleshmarket Close
Steps leading from the Market Place up to Netherview and Back Row.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 18 Apr 2011
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The Square, Selkirk, Scottish Borders
The statue of Sir Walter Scott, the father of the novel. Sir Walter, a legal counsel, was the Sheriff of Selkirkshire for many years. The Sheriff Court is in the background.
Image: © James Denham
Taken: 24 Mar 2008
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Get your macho steaks here
The butcher noticed me taking photos so I popped inside and said that I liked his sign on the pavement. He said a lot of folk get the wrong idea about it and that they hang their beef longer than other local butchers. The shop is at the north junction of Tower Street and Back Row in Selkirk.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 12 Nov 2011
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Dresses in a butcher's shop window
Although it says F Kerr and Sons, Butchers on the fascia board, this shop in Tower Street, Selkirk now sells vintage and antique textiles. James Cockburn and Son, Butchers previously occupied this shop – see
Image] and for more information on the new business venture, see http://www.selkirkweekendadvertiser.co.uk/lifestyle/entertainment/bye-bye-butcher-1-2690441
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 3 Apr 2013
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Market Place, Selkirk
Photographed on a very overcast day, this shows the 3 main features of the Market Place
The square Pant Well (built in 1898) still marks the commercial centre of the medieval burgh.
Just left of centre stands the large statue of Sir Walter Scott, erected in 1839.
Behind the statue is the courtroom in which Sir Walter Scott acted as Sheriff of Selkirk from 1799 until his death in 1832. It is now a museum which explores his life, his writings and especially his time as a Sheriff.
Image: © G Laird
Taken: 26 Apr 2009
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The Loan, Selkirk
The Borders Abbeys Way, a circular long-distance walking route in the Scottish Borders, passes along this suburban street on the way from Selkirk Hill down into Selkirk town centre.
Image: © Oliver Dixon
Taken: 4 May 2014
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Hall on the hill
The Volunteer Hall in Selkirk built in 1867.
Image: © James Denham
Taken: 18 May 2011
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Kirk Wynd, Selkirk
Modern housing on the hill above the Market Place; the hills in the background are across the Tweed.
Image: © Jim Barton
Taken: 30 Dec 2010
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A symbolic gravestone at Selkirk Auld Kirk graveyard
This stone shows the deceased wearing a coat together with a death head’s skull and hourglass which are symbols of mortality. The inscription details on the other side of the stone have weathered away.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 22 Nov 2015
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