Borders Tours 1894

Borders Journeys aren’t the first to offer tours of the Scottish Borders! Back in 1894 John Turnbull & Co. of Selkirk were offering a tour of Ettrick and Yarrow on their four-in-hand coach ‘Flower of the Forest’. Today you can travel in comfort aboard our mini-bus ‘Jeannie’

Original advert from Ettrick & Yarrow – A Guide by William Angus (1894)

A convey of carriages making its way along the Captain’s Road from Crosscleuch , by the Devil’s Elbow. The carriages were heading towards Berrybush where they would either turn left for the Gordon Arms in the Yarrow Valley or right for the Tushielaw Inn in the Ettrick Valley.

Advert and photograph courtesy of Old Yarrow and Ettrick by Alex F. Young – ISBN 1840333618 (Stenlake Publishing Ltd.)

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