PHOTOGRAPHS OF TWEEDSMUIR

A previously unknown collection of photographs of the Porteous country in Tweeddale have been made available to the author of this site.

These were taken by Janet Boyd Kelly Anderson, the daughter of William Anderson and Janet Dempster of Glenriskie, between 1933-34, and show aspects of the landscape in and around Hawkshaw and the surrounding area before it was flooded as a result of the building of the Fruid Reservoir in the 1960s.

Many of the pictures show farmhouses and cottages in the area which have long since disappeared, and form a visual record of this countryside as it was in the early thirties.

I am grateful to Charles Houston for permission to reproduce this unique collection of photographs, all of which are by Janet B K Anderson.

Index to photographs