Abbey St Bathans is a parish in the Lammermuir district of Berwickshire, in the eastern part of the Scottish Borders. Unique in its topography, it is situated in a long winding steep wooded valley tha
Abbey St Bathans sign in the centre of the village
The Rest House, no longer a working youth hostel
John Turnbull Thomson was a British civil engineer and artist who played an instrumental role in the development of the early infrastructure of nineteenth-century Singapore and New Zealand. He lived t
Picture of John Turnbull Thomson
Thomson memorial in Ranfurly, New Zealand
One of Thomson's water colours c. 1865