YHS archives contains a copy of the photograph shown above. It was clearly taken at the foot of Dow Brae - the slope of the road as it rises onto the bridge over the Bowmont can be seen in the background. Unfortunately we do not know the photograph's date or the names of men who are its subject. At a guess, it seems likely to have been taken around 1910, but the names of the four gadgies are probably irrecoverable, which is a great pity as the image is evocative of a lost world.
Given the anonymity of the men - and because it is hard to find another place to use this amusing anecdote - we attach a newspaper cutting from the Jedburgh Gazette, 21st March 1908. Despite the title, it is not about 'Gender Identity', but the sometimes-mysterious world of carts in Yetholm. Who knows , maybe the droll Jacob Anderson may be one of the men in the photograph ...
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