Editorial photo #8372056 Reportage

Hawick Common Riding - Thursday Morning

Hawick Cornet 2022, Greig Middlemass accompanied by Right Hand Man, Connor Brunton [2019 Cornet] and Left Hand Man, Gareth Renwick [2018 Cornet] leaving the Mair on the morning of Thursday 09 June 2022. The Cornet carrying the unbussed Banner Blue as he heads back to the Town Hall. The Hawick Common Riding is the first of the Border Common Ridings and celebrates both the capture of an English Flag, by the youth of Hawick at the military skirmish of Hornshole in 1514 and the ancient custom of riding the marches or boundaries of the common land. (Photo: Rob Gray) (Photo by Rob Gray/NurPhoto)