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  • Melrose Abbey

    26 September 2023

    Melrose Abbey
  • Melrose Abbey

    26 September 2023

    Melrose Abbey
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    25 September 2023

    The Rt. Rev. Henry Mosley
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    19 January 2020

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Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders

Melrose is approximately 222 miles from Alfred's home at Southwell, and this is the furthest distance from there that we have acquired photographic evidence from his travels.

The East window, St. Mary's Abbey, Melrose (1514)

Melrose Abbey

Melrose Abbey medieval ruins of a Cistercian monastery founded in 1136 by David 1 and the burial place of Robert the Bruce's heart.

Added to site: 18 February 2017

A buttress on the south side of the Abbey, Melrose (1520)

Melrose Abbey buttress

A pigeon soaks up the sun. The thing that caught my attention was on the address and message side of the card, it has a King Edward VIII stamp on it and was posted in Edinburgh 4 August 1937 eight month's after his abdication. Another interesting point is that it's reporting on the train journey to Edinburgh "arrived at Waverly 9.25p.m. approximately instead of 8.45p.m. ... had to stand until we reached Newcastle as train was crowded". I think that message could still be sent today!

Melrose Abbey message
Added to site: 19 January 2020

Melrose Abbey through the trees (1516)

Melrose Abbey through the trees

Framed by trees distance shot of the abbey through the trees with some sheep grazing in the sun.

Added to site: 26 September 2023

The Monk's Choir (1523)

Melrose Abbey

Catching the light and shadows at their best.

Added to site: 26 September 2023
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