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DIRECTOKY.]
Tait Brothers, painters & decorators, 26
High street
Tait Andrew, butcher, 98 High street &
94 Scott street
Tait James, fruiterer & greengrocer, 94
High street & 20 Bank street
Tait Thomas, cabinet maker, G Sime place
Taket Janet (Mrs.), grocer & spirit dealer,
Market square ; TN 0299
Taylor William J. station master & goods
agent, Market street
Thorn Wm. house agt. 177 Gala Park road
Thomson John, florist, 49 High street
Thomson Brothers, drapers & clothiers, 47
High street
ThomsouAUan, plumber & gasfitter„Albert pi
Thomson J. Lamb, accountant, 11 Sime pi
Thomson John, fruiterer & seedsman, 95
High street
Thomson Wm. burgh surveyor,Burgh bldgs
Thorburn John, tobacconist & confectioner
42 Market street
Thriidand Bobert & Son.ironmongers.C'han-
nel street; T N 94
Tod Andrew, baker, 92 High street
Townley Joseph, teacher of music, 22
Channel street
Turnbull A. H. & Co. berlin wool reposi-
tory, 68 High street
Turnbull John Scott, baker & confectioner
26 Channel street
Turner John, boot maker, 2B8 Gala Park rd
Tweedie, Brownlee & Co. brass founders &
gasfitters, 27 Bank street
Tweedie John & Son, plumbers & gasfltters
76 High street; T N 41
Tweedie James, Ladhope inn, High Buck-
holmside
INNERLEITHEN, a parish, formerly
partly in this county, but chiefly in the
adjoining county of Peebles, has now been
transferred entirely to Peebles-shire under
the provisions of the "Local Government
rf: £? " (52 and 53 Vict c - 50 ' sections
44 to 50).
KIEEHOPE is a parish, formerly
part of the parish of Yarrow, from which
it was disjoined in 1815: it is in the pres-
bytery of Selkirk, and in Hawick poor
combination and Selkirk small debt court
district; and is 9 miles long by 5 broad,
bound-d on the north-west bvYarrow, north-
east by Selkirk, east by Ashkirk and Rox-
burghshire, and south-west by Ettrick
The Ettrick water, which in its coarse is
fed by several burns, flows through the
north-west part of the parish, which is
very hilly, there being 8 eminences in the
parish above the height of 1,000 feet
There is a church of the Establishment
and a Board school at Ettrick Bridge End,
a small village in Eirkhope, 7 rniies south-
west from Selkirk terminal station on the
branch of the North British railway
Acreage, 22,734; rateable value, £6,390-
population in 1891, 500, and in 1901, 399.
Po ™ & X ' °' Eitrick Bridge ; Miss Isabella
Cleghorn, sub-postmistress. Postal
Orders issued & paid here. Delivery,
10.5o a.m. ; dispatch, 11.50 a.m. Selkirk
is the nearest money order office
SELKIRKSHIRE.
Tweedie William, Auld Mill inn,57 Bank st
Tyler Henry P. boot maker, 25 Bank street
Tyrrell Edward Munro M.B., CM. sur-
geon, 69 Gala Park road
Unionist Club (J. Mowbray Kinnaird.sec),
High street
Waddell Margaret & Isabella (Misses), tem-
perance hotel, Channel street
Walker Alexander & Son.booksellers & sta-
tioners, 113 High street
Walker Andrew, coal mer. Railway station
Walker Francis I. bookseller & stationer,
18 Bank street
Walker EuphemiaXHiss),milliner,107High st
Walker Bobert, hair dresser, 69 Bank st
Wallace David M. Victoria & Volunteer
Arms inn, 56 Market street
Watson James & Co. drysalters, Galaside;
T N 22
Watt G. & Son, painters & decorators, 15
Bridge street
Watt Alex, wholesale confectnr. St. John st
Waverley Mill Furnishing Co. mill fur-
nishers, Roxburgh street
Webster & Thomson, ironmongers, 41
Bank street
West Alexander, upholsterer, 62 Over-
haugh street
Whamond Henry, lay missionary, 11 Low
Buckholmside
White James.coal merchant, 195 Scott street
White Robert, boot maker, S Bank street
White Bobert, grocer, 52 Overhaugh st
Whyte James, coal merchant. Railway statu
Wilkie Adam L. chemist & druggist, 25
Highstreet;TN75
Wilkie John, baker, 21 Island street
Wilson Hugh, tobacconist, 69 High street
Letters received through Selkirk, which is
the nearest money order office
PARISH COUNCIL.
Chairman, Rev. Hugh McMillan
Clerk, Thomas Elliot
Medical Officer, James Stewart Muir M.B.,
CM. Selkirk
Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages,
Inspector of Poor & Collector of Rates,
Thomas Elliot
Police Station, Ettrick Bridge End, Robt.
Brown, constable
Established Church, Rev. Hugh M'Hiltan
School Board, John Macaulay, Market pi.
Selkirk, clerk
Board Schools: —
Ettrick Bridge End, John S. Kerr, master
Bedford Green, Miss Alice Mclnnes,
mistress
Duke of Buccleuch's School, Gilmans cleuch,
Thomas Elliot, master
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Anderson Thomas Scott M.D., J.P Et-
trickshaws
Brown Adam, Hyndhope
M'Millan Rev. Hugh (Established), Kirk-
hope manse
COMMERCIAL.
Elliot Thomas, clerk to parish council, re-
gistrar of births, deaths & marriages,
inspector of poor & collector of rates,
Gilmanscleuch
SELKIRK.
1335
Wilson William, grocer & fishing tackle
maker, 69 Island street
Wood & Co. tweed manufrs. Bridge street
Wood W. & J. joiners & builders, 177 Gala
Park road
Wood George, rug maker & confectioner.
39 Stirling street
Wood John, builder, Green street
Wright Isabella (Mrs'.), grocer & spirit
dealer, 7 Bridge place
Wright William, watch maker, 9 Paton st
Tellowlees A. & Son, ironmongers & ship-
ping agents, 50 Bank 6treet
Young John, drysalter, 47 Market 'street &
Roxburgh street
FARMERS.
Boyd William B. Faldonsido
Brownlee James, Galashiels
Brydon Adam, Netherbarns
Elliot Walter, Hollybush
Gladstone James, Galabrig & Wester
Langlee
Grieve James, Fairnalee
Hall Robert, Kilnknowe
Hogarth James, Galashiels
Neil Robert & Son, Langhaugh mains
Lees Andrew, Buckholm
Pate Samuel, Rink
Scott William & Helen, Mossilie
Taylor William, Over Whitlaw
I/iiidean.
Arthur William, farmer
Gray George, joiner
Harvey Andrew, station master
Mabon Jessie (Mrs.), miller
Scott James, blacksmith
Grieve Margaret (Mrs.), Cross Keys inn; ..
Ettrick Bridge end
Kennedy Jas. blcksmth. Ettrick Bdgc. end
Mitchell Thomas & James, joiners, Ettrick
Bridge end
FARMERS.
Aitchison William, Helmburn
Anderson Thomas S. Ettrickshaws
Barton William & Bobert, Fauldshope
Boston Christina (Mrs.), Easter Deloraine
Brown Adam, Hyndhope
Brydon Robert & William, WhitehiHsbiela,
Clayton B. farmer, Deloraine
Graham George, Drycleuchlee
Grieve Robert, Outer Huntly
Hogg John, Gilmanscleuch
Linton Simon, Oakwood
Mitchell James, Newburgh
Mitchell Thomas, Howford
Scott Thomas & James. Singlie
Scott Thomas (reps, of), Langhope
LINDEAN, see Galashiels.
KOBEETOK is a parish, formerly partly-
in this countv and partly in Roxburghshire,
but is now included wholly in the latter
county, under the provisions of the " Local
Government (Scotland) Act, 1889 " (52
and 53 Vict. c. 60, sections 44 to 60).
SELKIRK is an ancient town, a royal
and police burgh, the seat of a presbytery,
and the capital of its countv and parish,
in Galashiels poor combination. 38 miles
south-south-east from Edinburgh, 22 east-
by-south from Peebles, 12 north-north-west
£ ™ m Hawick, 8 south-west from Melrose,
and 6 south from Galashiels, occupying a
rising ground, at the foot of which flows
the river Ettrick. The place derives its
name from a kirk established here at an
early date, when the locality became dis-
tinguished as a hunting seat of the kings.
In the oldest charter it is called " Scheles-
chirche," which signifies the Kirk of the
Shiels or Shielings. After the transfer to
Kelso of a monastery founded here by
David I. about 1113, the town around the
old castle received the dignified title of
Selkirk Regis," while the Tillage of the
monks was denominated " Selkirk Abbatis."
Of tie Castle of Selkirk, at which David
occasionally resided, little is known, and
its size cannot now be satisfactorily ascer-
tained. There is a terminal station here
on the branch to Galashiels, where
it joins the Waverley line of the North
British system The rivers Ettrick and
Harrow form a junction about a mile and
a, half south-west from Selkirk, and empty
their waterB into the Tweed, about 2 miles
north of the town. As a royal burgh,
belkirk is governed by a provost, S'nailies,
a dean of guild, and eleven councillors.one-
SELKIRK.
third of whom retire annually. The sheriff
court is held on Friday. The magistrates
hold criminal courts as occasion requires.
Quarter sessions are held on the first Tues-
day in March, May and August, and last
Tuesday of October, and special justice of
peace courts when found necessary. The
town is at present supplied with water
from a well in the Mill Haugh. The
old Town Hall in the Market place contains
tho court room In which Sir Walter Scott
once presided as sheriff of the county ; it i>
now used for burgh courts, meetings of
town council, and other public bodies.
In 1870 buildings were completed for the
business of the county, including a sheriff
court room, and offices for sheriff clerk
procurator fiscal, and other officials. The
Victoria Hall, built by public subscription
at a coSt of £7,400, in commemoration of
the Diamond Jubilee of Her late Majesty
Queen Victoria, and opened in 1897, is
used for public meetings, concerts, &c.
The old Mercat Cross, standing in the
market place, was rebuilt in 1898, by public
subscription, as a similar memorial. Sel-
kirk was in past ages celebrated for
the making of brogues (a descrip-
tion_ of single-soled shoes); tradition
carries the existence of this trade so far
back as the period of the battle of Flodden,
in which conflict, it is asserted, the brogue
makers or " souters " of Selkirk took a
distinguished part. As a further proof of
the consequence and ability of the pro-
fessors of this craft, it appears from tho
town records that when the Highland army,
in 1745, commanded the magistrates of
Edinburgh to furnish 6,000 pairs of shoes,
these civic officials made a call upon the
burgh of Selkirk for no less than a third
of the quantity, which was supplied. The
principal manufactures now carried on con-
sist of various descriptions of woollen
goods— tweeds, tartans, plaids and shawls—
and wool spinning and tanning. A hospi-
tal for contagions diseases was built and
opened in 1899. The market is held en
Wednesday, and fairs on the 6th April and
31st October. There is also an auction
mart, where sales are held for cattle &c.
fortnightly on Wednesday. There are
branches in the town of the British Linen
Company's Bank, the National Bank of
Scotland Lira, and the Commercial Bank of
Scotland Limited, and there 1b a Savings
Bank. The principal inns are the" Comity,"
the "Fleece," and the "Station hotel."
Three weekly newspapers are pnblished in
the town: — the "Southern Reporter," the
Saturday Advertiser," and the " Selkirk
Advertiser." In the Market place is a fine
monument to Sir Walter Scott, and, in
High street, is another, by Andrew Currie,
a native artist, to Mungo Park, the Afri-
can traveller, who was a native of Foul-
| shields, in this county, born 10 Sept. 1771
and drowned in the Niger. 1805. Bowhill.