Mystery Photo - near Hawick??

[walterc]

I've been in contact with a Tweedie descendant who ancestors in common with me.  She asked if I could identify the attached photo, saying that it was "up the Borthwick" where the Tweedies lived. The photo was in an album of her ancestors' photos of Wilton Dean area in Hawick.

Chisholm Lodge was in 1861 the residence of this branch Tweedies, if that's a help.

This photo was obviously taken recently as there are electric poles.

Can anyone help?  I've been up and down the Borthwick Valley, but can't place this photograph at all.

Many thanks.

[Thrall]

Hi Walter, I´m afraid I do not know where the photo´ was taken, but if it is any help, the car seen is I think an Anglia 105E which was made from 1959-1967. They rusted pretty fast so not so many got past ten years old. (Harry Potter´s flying example being a notable exception). Probably not much help but you never know!

Guid hunting,

Thrall

[daval57]

A wee bit of banter between me and my brother today......

Dave,

Here's Nan's response. It does look very like the area where Christine used to live at Falahill, just a short distance from Borthwick. That puts it near to the A7 close to Borthwick on the other side of the road from Middleton Moor.

Alan

--- On Tue, 22/7/08, nan xxxxxxxx<xxxxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

    From: nan xxxxxxxx<xxxxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk>
    Subject: Re: Fwd: Photograph
    To: "Alan" <xxxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk>
    Date: Tuesday, 22 July, 2008, 4:43 PM

    Hi

    This looks like the area around Borthwick.  Yes, there is a Borthwick burn.  We
    used to play there as children.  I could take you to it, more easily than I can
    describe how to get there.



    --- On Tue, 22/7/08, Alan
     <xxxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

    > From: Alan <xxxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk>
    > Subject: Fwd: Photograph
    > To: "xxxxxxxx Nan" <xxxxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk>
    > Cc: "Forrest David" <xxxxxxx@btinternet.com>
    > Date: Tuesday, 22 July, 2008, 7:00 AM
    > Nan,
    > Do you recognize where this is, and is there a Borthwick
    > river, valley or burn you've heard of?
    >
    > Alan
    >
    >
    > 
    > From: Dave Forrest <xxxxxxxx@btinternet.com>
    > Date: 21 July 2008 23:22:02 BST
    > To: alan <xxxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk>
    > Subject: Photograph
    > Reply-To: Dave Forrest <xxxxxxxx@btinternet.com>
    >
    >
    > I'm clutching at straws because this looks like any
    > other rural photo.
    > Any idea of the location?
    >
    > Described as "up The Borthwick"

[walterc]

Oh, this has really muddied the waters!

I forgot when posting that there was a Borthwick N of Falahill.

I'm still convinced that what my second cousin suggested: that it was the Borthwick Valley near Hawick has more than a ring of truth in it.

Circumstantial evidence, ie our common Tweedie ancestor living near Roberton, and the photo being in a bundle of Tweedie photos of Wilton Dean (Hawick) I think points towards the Roxburghshire Borthwick.

It's all the more galling since I know the area quite well - or at least thought I did - I was a milkboy on the country run round the Borthwick, Harden and Branxholm area with the Co-op van in the 60s!

Thanks for your trouble in helping track this elusive location.

[daval57]

Muddy Waters, now there's an artist! 

Sorry if my reply has thrown a spanner in the works.  My brother's wife and family know the area well which is why I asked them.  I think I'd go with your own idea of the location considering the batch of photos you found it in.
As I said to my bro', a lot of these rural areas look alike.

I hope you eventually find it.

Good luck.

Dave