The Times

Within the next few weeks bulldozers will move in to demolish an Edwardian building of stately appearance and classical grandeur. Down will come the great balustraded portico, the polished marble pillars, the keystoned pediments, the sandstone lodge with its double-leaf gates. With it will go a piece of industrial history, for this was one of the great Borders woollen mills, at the centre of a trade which sent exports around the Empire. Later, it became the Scottish College of Textiles, training generations of apprentices.