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Braw Lads Gathering - Ceremonial Day

Galashiels, UK. 02 Jul.2022. Principals Gallop up Scott Street. Braw Lad John Turnbull, Braw Lass Abbie Hood, Bearer of Sod, Ex-Braw Lad Robbie Lowrie, Bearer of Red Roses, Ex-Braw Lass Nicola Laing, Bearer of Stone, Ex-Braw Lad Greg Kelly, Bearer of White Roses, Ex-Braw Lass Amy Thomson GALASHIELS BRAW LADS GATHERING was reinstituted in 1930 to celebrate the towns history and is similar to Riding the Bounds and riding the Marches as celebrated else where. The preliminary events precede the main ceremonies on the Saturday which begin with the Braw Lad receiving the Burgh Flag and leading his mounted supporters to the Raid Stane Here in 1337 Gala lads killed English raiders in a field of wild plums The stream ran red with blood and soor plooms became the Burgh emblem The ride continues with a crossing the Tweed to Abbotsford and a return to the Old Town cross where the creation of Galashiels as a Burgh of Barony in 1599 is recalled Riding the Bounds is similar to Beating the Bounds ie around the parish or town" a spectre of Galloping Up Scott Street draws many crowds, before the dipping of the Burgh Flag in front of the War Memorial. (Photo by Rob Gray/NurPhoto)

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