The Royal Burgh of Peebles in the nineteenth century : the impact of a locally-organised railway on a moribund Scottish county town
Peebles, a small burgh in the Scottish Borders, was stagnant at the start of the 1800s, having remained virtually unchanged for 200 years. It was by-passed during the 1840s railway boom, the North British Railway (NBR) having decided that building a railway from Edinburgh to Peebles would be too cos...
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Open University
2005
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413822 |