The Anvil in Staney Brae commemorates William Telfer the blacksmith, whose business was based adjacent in Crown Lane. It has since passed through five generations of the Telfer family. The firm moved to Mansfield in 1991 and continues to this day.
12 High Street is an elegant, palazzo-style building designed by prominent Edinburgh architect John Dick Peddie (1824-91). It was built for the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1857, as part of a programme to establish a nationwide branch network between 1854 and 1857. Peddie was responsible for the design of almost every new branch during this […]
Heronhill Close is one of Hawick’s newest housing developments, on the site of Heronhill House. JT Rochead was commissioned by George Wilson to build this mansion to an Italianate design. During and after WWII it was used as a private girls school (which had moved from its previous base at St. Helen’s in Bridge of […]
