Companies such as Hawick Cashmere, Hawick Knitwear, Johnstons of Elgin, Lyle & Scott, Peter Scott, Pringle of Scotland, and Scott and Charters, all have had and in many cases still have manufacturing plants in Hawick, producing some of the most luxurious cashmere and merino wool knitwear in the world today.

The Common Riding festivals of many Southern Upland towns such as Jedburgh, Kelso, Hawick, Peebles, Selkirk and Langholm recall this history, re-enacting the practice of riding the boundaries of the town to enable warning to be given of raids from the south.

* Old Photographs Of Hawick And The Scottish Borders

Hawick is traditionally the start the season of annual rideouts, due to the fact that the community captured a flag from the English army in 1514.

The A7 Edinburgh to Carlisle road passes through the town, with main roads also leading to Berwick upon Tweed ( the A698 ) and Newcastle upon Tyne ( the A6088, which joins the A68 at the Carter Bar, south-east of Hawick ).

The A68 reaches the Scottish border at Carter Bar, where there is a junction with the A6088, leading to Hawick.

This was introduced in 1973 and still flourishes today with several of the country's original clubs still very much in evidence, such as Heriots, West of Scotland, Watsonians and the famous ' border ' clubs such as Gala, Hawick, Jed-Forest, Kelso and Melrose.

In his nine games Gallacher hit 19 goals with the game against Hawick on 13 April 1921 being his last.

Hislop was born into a close Scottish Borders family, and grew up in the village of Chesters, near the town of Hawick, with his father Sandy, mother Margaret and best friend / younger brother Garry.

Carmichael was part of the West of Scotland team in the 1970s-a powerhouse in UK rugby, averaging 10 internationalists in the team per season, and dominating the domestic league with West's great rivals, Hawick RFC.

I used to go with my father to see matches at a very early age, the great Hawick heroes including Willie Welsh, Jock Beattie and Jerry Foster, so I had an all-consuming desire to wear the green jersey of Hawick.

McLaren's journalistic career started as a junior reporter with the Hawick Express.

The two-hour flight covered 110 miles, and passed over Hamilton and Lanark before landing at the feet of ' trembling shepherds ' in Hawick near the border with England.

Feelings were running high along the route in the final weekend of passenger operations, with protesters evident at most stations, and the authorities, sensing the potential for trouble, sent a Clayton ' pilot ' engine ahead of 1M82 at ' caution ' from Hawick to ' prove ' the route south after a set of points at Hawick had been found to be tampered with.

Contracts with the coal industry forced British Rail to run freight traffic until Friday, 25 April 1969 from Millerhill to Galashiels, St. Boswells and Hawick with a daily service, mainly coal traffic from Lady Victoria Pit, but also oil tank wagons to St Boswells.

Over the last couple of years this team as become more competitive in the local borders league they play in coming 2nd in 2009 behind Hawick Wands in 2009, with good players such as Grant Runciman, Richard Ferguson, Bruce Colvine and a lot more.

Hawick ( ;, ) is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland.

Hawick is known for its yearly Common Riding, for its rugby team Hawick Rugby Football Club and for its knitwear industry.

At the 2001 census Hawick had a resident population of 14, 801.

The first knitting machine was brought to Hawick in 1771 by John Hardie, building on an existing carpet manufacturing trade.

Hawick lies in the centre of the valley of the Teviot.

Despite a great deal of local opposition the town lost its rail service in 1969, when as part of the controversial Beeching Axe the ' Waverley Line ' from Carlisle to Edinburgh via Hawick was closed.

There are plans to reinstate the line from Edinburgh to Tweedbank, but not to Hawick.

Hawick Town Hall, on High Street.

A track to the west of Shankend Farm The twin summits in the distance are the Maiden Paps, Hawick | Maiden Paps.

The town is the home of Hawick Rugby Football Club and a senior football team, Hawick Royal Albert, who currently play in the East of Scotland Football League.

The Hawick Baw game was once played here by the ' uppies ' and the ' doonies ' on the first Monday after the new moon in the month of February.

Although no longer played at Hawick, it is still played at nearby Jedburgh.

* Hawick Royal Albert F. C.

* June – The Battle of Hornshole between England and Scotland takes place near Hawick, Scotland.

The writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal Unionist parliamentary candidate in 1900 and 1906, in the Scottish seats of Edinburgh Central and Hawick Boroughs respectively.

One of the last major railway closures was of the 98-mile long ( 158 km ) Waverley Route main line between Carlisle, Hawick and Edinburgh in 1969 ; the re-opening of a 35-mile section of this line was approved by the Scottish Parliament and passenger services are due to resume in 2014.

* Gloucester RFC, Halifax RLFC, Hawick RFC, Salford RLFC, St Helens RLFC, Wakefield Trinity RLFC and Widnes RLFC all established in 1873.

The subsidiary titles of Lord Queensberry are: Earl of Queensberry ( created 1633 ), Viscount Drumlanrig ( 1628 ) and Lord Douglas of Hawick and Tibbers ( 1628 ), all in the peerage of Scotland.

The basic shape of his body is humanoid, his skin and features are reptilian and he retains a taste for flies he catches with his prehensile tongue.

Warren retains fond memories of Beacham's " very professional " performance, and remarks that, " with tongue firmly in cheek, she would often wind me up by asking what her motivation was for a particular action, just as I about to call ' Action!

They have a muscular tongue which in many species can be protruded.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

And coming to Clermont he set on fire, overthrew and destroyed that shrine which they call Vasso Galatae in the Gallic tongue ," martyring many Christians ( Historia Francorum Book I. 32 – 34 ).

Because of the importance of the tongue in this method many refer to this as a " tongue-controlled embouchure.

Pinafore relied on stock character types, many of which were familiar from European opera ( and some of which grew out of Gilbert's earlier association with the German Reeds ): the heroic protagonist ( tenor ) and his love-interest ( soprano ); the older woman with a secret or a sharp tongue ( contralto ); the baffled lyric baritone — the girl's father ; and a classic villain ( bass-baritone ).

This is the situation long faced by many users of English who possess a " non-standard " dialect of English as their birth tongue but have also learned to write ( and perhaps also speak ) a more standard dialect.

The Komodo dragon uses its tongue to detect, taste, and smell stimuli, as with many other reptiles, with the vomeronasal sense using the Jacobson's organ, rather than using the nostrils.

In many British accents ( e. g. Cockney ), dark may undergo vocalization through the reduction and loss of contact between the tip of the tongue and the alveolar ridge, becoming a rounded back vowel or glide.

For instance, in many languages the surface of the tongue contacts a relatively large area from the back of the upper teeth to the alveolar ridge ; this is common enough to have received its own name,.

Also, by using his many Greek references and showing that his plays were originally Greek, “ It is possible that Plautus was in a way a teacher of Greek literature, myth, art and philosophy ; so too was he teaching something of the nature of Greek words to people, who, like himself, had recently come into closer contact with that foreign tongue and all its riches .”

In the spring Hvergelmir are so many snakes along with Níðhöggr " that no tongue can enumerate them ".

On the other hand, however, there started rising at the same time cries in defence of Cockney as, for example the following one: " The London dialect is really, especially on the South side of the Thames, a perfectly legitimate and responsible child of the old kentish tongue the dialect of London North of the Thames has been shown to be one of the many varieties of the Midland or Mercian dialect, flavoured by the East Anglian variety of the same speech ".

In the Czech Republic and Poland, a pork tongue is considered a delicacy, and there are many ways of preparing it.

Sticking one's tongue out at someone is considered a childish gesture of rudeness and / or defiance in many countries ; the act may also have sexual connotations, depending on the way in which it is done.

Once the Edain settled in Beleriand, they eagerly learned Sindarin from its Grey Elven inhabitants, but retained their own tongue, probably whilst borrowing and adapting many Sindarin words to it.

Charles shared with France his mother tongue and many cultural forms.

The woodpecker's long tongue, in many cases as long as the woodpecker itself, can be darted forward to capture insects.

these seven sounds are produced in many ways where the tongue is raised towards the alveolar ridge.

Studies of language change, especially glottochronology ( that is, words changing in form or being replaced by borrowed synonyms ), have given linguists the tools to estimate the point in time when many pairs of languages diverged from their common ancestral tongue.

Although brain damage to many regions may cause it, it is most commonly associated with the inferior frontal gyrus, a region that overlaps with motor cortex controlling the mouth and tongue.

With the churning growth of Persian, many ethnic groups, including de-tribalized Pashtuns, are adopting Dari Persian as their new native tongue.

In many Latin American colonies, Spanish missionaries often learned local languages in order to preach to the natives in their own tongue.

In many birds, the esophagus is largely a mere gravity chute, and in such events as a seagull swallowing a fish or a stork swallowing a frog, swallowing consists largely of the bird lifting its head with its beak pointing up and guiding the prey with tongue and jaws so that the prey slides inside and down.

For many uses, tongue and groove boards have been rendered obsolete by the introduction of plywood and later composite wood boards, but the method is still used in higher-quality flooring.