Old Hawick Common Ridings & Faces
Page Two

The leading personalities of the Common Riding 1948 at St Leonards.

Conet Chas Whillans, shoulder high along the High Street after the return of the flag, 1948.

Cornet Billy Cavers and Right-Hand Man, Chas Whillans and the lasses returning from the " kirkin' " at the Old Parish Church, 1949.

Cornet Billy Cavers and his Lass at Drumlanrig School, 1949.

The procession at the Tower Knowe on the way to the "chase", 1949.

Cornet Cavers carried by his supporters to the Tower Hotel after the return of the flag, 1949.

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