Framed in Time
The year is 1930 and readers can see for themselves just how quiet Innerleithen High Street was back in those far-off days before the Second World War.
The area occupied by the town has been inhabitated since before the days of the Romans. Innerleithen is said to have been founded by a wandering monk who came to Innerleithen along the River Tweed in a coracle.
In fact, a carved Celtic stone – known as the Runic Cross – was once found on the slopes of the Leithen valley, leading historians to believe that a church existed here in the early Middle Ages.
The town achieved famed as a spa in the 19th century for its mineral spring.
In 1823, Sir Walter Scott's novel, St Ronan's Well, was published, in which he associated the well in Innerleithen with the 8th-century saint, and from then on the spring became known as St Ronan's Well. One can still sample the waters today and visit the small interpretation centre.
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