Five Years of the Auld Earlston Blog

Working lives, shops & shopping, leisure activities, clubs & societies, building,  events,  travel & transport,  war & remembrance,   emigrants, local people who have made their mark in some way, newspaper headlines, personal memories,   and Earlston down the decades from the 1790's to the 1950's. 

These are  all topics that have featured on the Auld Earlston blog, first launched five years ago to provide a written record on all aspects of the village's past.                 

Facts and Figures
In the five years,  165 posts have been published  and  the blog has received a total of  115,680 page views, with readers, predictably from:

• USA 
•  UK
• Ireland
• Australia
• Canada
• Rest of Europe

     Take a look back at some of the most popular articles over the years:

  
Top Five Posts Ever 

• Earlston Reading Room - Its  Past and its Future  
  
  
  Enjoying a break in the  Reading Room, 1960s.
  
• Earlston on Parade  - A look back at Civic Weeks and and other events
  
  
  Having Fun!
  
  
  
• Earlston's Posties of the Past
  
  Postie James McQuillin - late 19th century
  
• A Look at Earlston during the Second World War 
  
  Earlston Munition Workers
  
  
•  Earlston Railway Cuttings - Celebrating the First Sod

  
  Earlston Station

     

Top  Six Posts of the Past Year

• Earlston Shops & Shopkeepers in Times Past 
• 200 Years of Earlston Post Office 
• How Earlston got Its Name
• Sir Thomas Learmonth of Ercildoune - Thomas the Rhymer
• Looking Back to Earlston in the 1950s
• Earlston in the Headlines   A New Year Mill Festival and other Events        

 Thank you to all our readers for your continued interest and support.

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We would very much like to include  more items from  readers.

Have you come across an interesting story from the past?  
 Why not share memories of  more recent times  with others? 

Contributions are welcome from snippets, to short articles

 (approx. 200 to 1200 words in length)

We can add relevant photographs from our collection. 

Contact us at:     auldearlston@aol.com 

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