Hawick and the Borders

Photographs by

Peter Marshall

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Melrose

Berwick on Tweed

Holy Island

Four Abbeys Walk

 
 
 
These pictures were taken during a short stay in Hawick at the end of July 2004.
All were shot on a Nikon D100 camera, as high resolution raw images, and reduced to small images for web display.
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Holy Island : Lindisfarne and Holy Island

  
 
Driving over the bridge at the centre of the causeway
  
 


Lindisfarne is reached by a causeway which is covered with water for a few hours at each high tide. Even when the tide goes down, there is still water in the centre of the causway, but the road goes over a short bridge. If you choose to walk to the island (following the marker poles) you also walk over this bridge unless you want to get your feet (and legs) wet.

If you get stranded by the tide you can sit it out in the little white hut in the middle of this picture taken through the car windscreen. I wouldn't fancy it in rough weather.

Holy Island is a small village at the southern end of Lindisfarne Island, with an castle perched on an improbable outcrop of rock. It was done up by Lutyens around 1903 to make modern living accomodation (and had its walled vegetable garden converted to flowers by Gertrude Jekyll.)

 

  
 
Rather a lot of sand (or mud?) between Lindisfarne and the mainland.		  
 
Old boats used as fishermen's sheds at Holy Island		  
 
More boat-shaped sheds next to the castle
  
 
The castle is best seen from a distance, although I did walk around it.
  
 
Looking south from the churchyard, Holy Island		  
 
Horse and Church, Holy Island		  

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