In December 2019 we did a post about John Graham, gamekeeper, who lived in a cottage on Yetholm Law in the nineteenth century. The cottage is no longer there - it has been replaced by a large modern house - but Gordon Common, who worked at the research station at Sourhope and who now lives in Town Yetholm, lived in the cottage in the early 1970s and has given us some photographs of it. The one shown above gives the best idea of what it looked like. It was taken in 1972. Gordon says the cottage had it own water supply, which ran from a tank and collection point further up the Law, close to where the current Scottish Water pumping station is now located. During the summer months the flow was reduced to a dribble before eventually drying up. During the winter months the cottage was somewhat damp. Those were the days!
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