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The Bulletin
Fix this text‘The Bulletin.” Vol. 75—No. 3881
Fix this textONE CAME BACK —PAGE 25
Fix this textWednesday, June 30, 1954
Fix this textPrice 9d.
Fix this textRegistered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for transmission by Post as a Newspaper
Fix this textLargest in the Borderland,
Fix this textKelso Abbey
Fix this textseppelts
Fix this textOIR WALTER SCOTT described Kelso as
Fix this text“the most beautiful, if not the most romantic
Fix this textvillage in Scotland.” It was there, in 1783,
Fix this textthat he was a student for six months in the
Fix this textold grammar school where James and John
Fix this textBallantyne were his fellow-students; an associ-
Fix this textation which 19 years later resulted in the
Fix this textformation of the Ballantyne Press which issued
Fix this textthe first two volumes of Scott’s Minstrelsy of
Fix this textthe Scottish Border.
Fix this textThe ancient town of Kelso stands on the north
Fix this textside of the River Tweed at its junction with the
Fix this textTcviot in Roxburghshire—a county which was
Fix this textfrequently devastated by the ceaseless struggles
Fix this textbetween the English and the Scots in the long
Fix this textago. First one side and then the other crossed
Fix this textthe Border to pillage, kill and burn. It was a
Fix this textprofitless war that was brought to an end more
Fix this textby common sense than by an act of union,
Fix this textby a realisation that a house divided against
Fix this textitself can have nothing but a leaky roof.
Fix this textEvidence of this turbulent past can be seen
Fix this textlo-day in the many ruined castles and abbeys
Fix this textin the Lowlands.
Fix this textThe largest and finest of these Border abbeys
Fix this textwas Keiso before its destruction. All that
Fix this textremains to-day is the extreme west end of the
Fix this textAbbey of which the most conspicuous part is
Fix this textthe massive tower built in the late Norman
Fix this textstyle of architecture eight hundred years ago.
Fix this textThe Abbey was founded in an age of great
Fix this textbuilding activity; a time when such magnificent
Fix this textcathedrals as Lincoln, Ely and Peterborough and
Fix this textthe great abbey of Bury St. Edmunds were
Fix this textbeing built. Reports of these buildings reached
Fix this textthe Scottish King, Alexander I, and inspired
Fix this texthim to build at Kelso an abbey no less inferior
Fix this textin design and beauty. Completed in 1128, dur-
Fix this texting the reign of David I, the great abbey which
Fix this textwas oyer three hundred feet in length in red
Fix this textsandstone, was occupied by monks from
Fix this textPicardy. Profiting by royal patronage, the
Fix this textabbey grew in wealth and importance and until
Fix this textthe year 1420 its abbots claimed precedence
Fix this textover all others in Scotland. In 1545, during
Fix this textthe Border warfare, the Abbey served as a
Fix this textfortress and was taken only after a lengthy
Fix this textsiege; its defenders, consisting of 100 men and
Fix this text12 monks were killed and the building was
Fix this textalmost entirely destroyed. The existing transcept
Fix this textwas used as a parish church between the years
Fix this text1649 and 1771. After the Reformation, Kelso
Fix this textAbbey was conferred upon the ancestor of the
Fix this textDuke of Roxburghe, its last private owner,
Fix this textwho, in 1919, presented it to the nation and it
Fix this textis now preserved as an ancient monument.
Fix this textTHE HOUSE
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Fix this textPRODUCERS OF
Fix this textEXTRA DRY SOLERO • ROYAL PURPLE PARA
Fix this textCHATEAU TANUNDA BRANDY • GREAT WESTERN CHAMPAGNE
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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