There were no bands, riding of the boundary or castings, but several individuals ensured some of the keenly-guarded traditions were still able to take place, while keeping within social-distancing guidelines.
On Thursday morning at 7am, Selkirk’s Ex Royal and Ancient Burgh Standard Bearers Association laid a wreath at the Flodden Memorial Fletcher.
This was done in the early morning to stop crowds gathering, and was carried out by Silver Jubilee Standard Bearer Duncan Lawson, accompanied by chairman Gary Guthrie and secretary David Mitchell.
Each of the 54 members laid individual floral tributes over the weekend from themselves or behalf of those who could not be there. A donation will be made to the Selkirk Response team from the sale of the tributes to the members.
At 5.30am on Friday morning, Selkirk Ex-soldiers chairman Stuart Lunt laid a wreath at the Selkirk War memorial, as is traditional.
The United Crafts Deacons followed at 6am.
On Friday afternoon, the flag applicants (those waiting to be standard bearer in the coming years), sang Selkirk Common Riding Songs outside The Bield, Mungo Park Court, Thornfield Nursing Home and Riverside Nursing Home – a lovely touch by the youngsters that was greatly appreciated by the elderly residents.
The Ex-standard Bearers Association once again ran the annual primary seven essay and art competitions, in conjunction with the local schools in Selkirk and the valleys.
This year’s overall winner of the Harvey Lockie memorial Trophy for the best P7 essay was Connor Munro, who wrote a particularly poignant piece based on his memories of the 2012 common riding, when his father Darren was Hammermen standard bearer.
All photographs by Grant Kinghorn.
This was done in the early morning to stop crowds gathering, and was carried out by Silver Jubilee Standard Bearer Duncan Lawson, accompanied by chairman Gary Guthrie and secretary David Mitchell.
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Individual tributes were placed by or on behalf of the 54 living Ex Royal Burgh Standard Bearers at the Flodden memorial.
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Silver Jubilee Ex-Royal Burgh Standard Bearer Duncan Lawson laid the wreath on behalf of the Ex Standard Bearers.
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The young men who are waiting to be Standard Bearer sang outside the town's care homes.