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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2011 22:03:28 GMT
;D River? Castle name? Bridge? And for an extra point the date and name the three guys in the boat, they are not members of this forum. TC
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Post by sinkingtip on Dec 22, 2011 22:16:41 GMT
Ah, 'burning the water' - takes me back. In the correct hands a highly skillful technique.
Is it from Scrope's book ? Must be Tweed.
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Post by ibm59 on Dec 22, 2011 22:44:01 GMT
Tweed , Neidpath Castle
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Post by Speyducer on Dec 22, 2011 22:53:00 GMT
Tweed Neidpath Castle Peebles bridge around midnight, 26th June 1868 the three guys in the boat: Farquhar on the tiller Callum with the light McTavish about to spear a salmon & due to their actions that night (& on many others before that!), they were banned from an unmentionable fishing f'rum after that date, and were evermore cast into the oblivion of having to fish from the bank with greenheart rods, brass winches, and horsehair leaders of no more than 3 strands. Mike
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2011 23:04:14 GMT
Jeez, were you there that night Mike ?
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Post by Speyducer on Dec 22, 2011 23:18:36 GMT
Jeez, were you there that night Mike ? yessir! I was on the bank doing the sketch of the scene for my mentor J C Adams - I would've preferred it to have been for JMW Turner, but I was a little late as he had died rather inconsiderately some 17 years earlier
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Post by Willie Gunn on Dec 23, 2011 11:58:10 GMT
Are you sure? I was re reading my well thumbed copy of Three Mannies in a Boat by James Kenny Jerome, which as you will all know is a story about three well known Weegies and a journey up the Clyde. They live on a rich diet of fags and the locally grown wine Buckfast. (The grapes grow on the south facing slopes of the Clyde Valley) In this fine etching they are trying to find a shoppee which is open late as they are short of both fags and Buckie.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2011 23:40:02 GMT
Yes Speyducer and IBM have it 100% right up to a point -
Tweed Neidpath Castle Peebles Bridge
A woodcut print published in the Illustrated London News, April 19th 1862. I think Scrope had a similar but differing illustration in his book.
Also for those interested, in the New Sporting Magazine July 1837 there is an account of Sir Walter Scott, at that time sherriff of Selkirk, enjoying an outing with the torch and Leister, IN JANUARY WHEN IT WAS LEGAL TO DO SO at that time of year.
Also interesting that when I google image search tweed "burning the water" I do find this illustration, but also about 8 lines down I find a photo of a well known member of this forum. Why would that be ? Must be a modern reference to a well anchored speycast !
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