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Borders and Berwick: An Illustrated Architectural Guide to the Scottish Borders and Tweed Valley Charles Alexander Strang The Rutland Press, Edinburgh, 1994, 272 pp., ISBN 1-873-19010-7
The publishers advise us that this volume is part of "A mad idea: the belief that by the millennium the whole of Scotland can be compressed within 28 vivid, pocket-- sized volumes printing the history and character of each place through the medium of its surviving or demolished architecture". Well, actually they are making a pretty good shot at it. I have previously given a favourable review to the volume on my home county of Ayrshire (RR 93/153) [1] and reviews of other volumes are in the pipeline. The series is now more than half way towards completion and is keeping up a very good standard. This volume even ventures on its own border raid into England as far South as Holy Island: this is a sensible decision as the...