This is perhaps the most impressive War Memorial I have ever seen. Set off the High Street through an archway into the pathway to the entrance to the Town Hall this is a distinctive memorial; a domed alcove, with pillars.

The commemorated are not just those from Peebles but from the wider County of Peeblesshire. The plaques either side of the alcove are for WW2. This is for the villages and towns of Peeblesshire.

The plaque to the left is for Peebles and Manor.

A smaller plaque on the upper left commemorates a death in Afghanistan.

The names of the WW1 dead from the villages of Newlands, Skirling, Stobo, Traquair, Tweedsmuir, Walkerburn and West Linton are on the right hand panel inside the alcove.

On the left hand panel inside the alcove the WW1 fallen from Broughton, Drumelzier, Eddleston, Innerleithen, Kirkurd, Lyne & Meggat and Manor are listed.

These villages/towns may have their own War Memorials, some of which I have photographed:

Broughton

Traquair

West Linton

The central panel inside the alcove is for Peebles alone. A huge number of names.

The inner dome, the cross and the tiled mosaic decoration give this an unusual feel, Orthodox or even Moorish.

West Linton is in the former Peeblesshire, now subsumed into the Tweeddale area of the Scottish Borders. The good lady had wanted to visit there as it has a second-hand bookshop (which we found also sells new books.) She bought an illustrated book called Through Merrie England by F L Stevens – illustrations by Francis D Bedford. It was inscribed Ann G Nelson, 1929.

We had a wander round the village after our rummage in the bookshop and I came across the War Memorial.

It is situated in front of a church in a well kept triangle between Lower Green and Main Street, West Linton.

This close-up shows the cenotaph-like construction.

Great War (upper) plaque:-

WW2 (lower) plaque:-