Flodden the dead horse


I am indebted to paper boy ( http://www.hunnymonster.org.uk/ )for pointing Huttonian toward some stirring images on the BBC website taken during the Flodden commemorations as part of Coldstream Civic Week. Here you can see the Coldstreamer cutting a sod from Flodden Field to take it back across the Tweed to join all the other poor sods unearthed in previous years-fortunately not going back as far as 1513 as otherwise the field would by now all be in Scotland. The bridge swarming with 'streamers is Coldstream Bridge immortalised by the visit of the Immortal Rabbie Burns (he is actually dead) who on his only trip to the Burgh crossed into England for a brief gander and having been faced with the choice of staying on south of the border or returning to Coldstream made a strange decision. The third picture is of the Scottish cavalry flowing across Flodden Field escorting the Coldstreamer, Right Hand and Left Hand men on their sod nicking expedition. They were safe enough as the English had left.


493 years ago.

Spellchecker suggests 'Goldstein' for Coldstream and Rabbi for Rabbie


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