Peebles: Chambers Institute plans get major cash boost
The buildings were bequeathed to the town by publisher William Chambers, perhaps best known for his encyclopaedia in 1859.
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The buildings were bequeathed to the town by publisher William Chambers, perhaps best known for his encyclopaedia in 1859.
IN the 1840s, Glasgow and much of Scotland was caught up in the great railway mania, and as we have seen, the big leap forward was the Edinburgh and…