Exhibition is now running at Whitburn Library

The Association’s ‘Colour Sergeant & Greyfriars Bobby’ exhibition is now running at Whitburn Library, West Lothian.

Press reports at the time show that Colour Sergeant Scott was a very important person in the legendary dog's life. In 1865 an article in the ‘Ayrshire Express’ reported ‘During the inclement winter the year before last, Sergeant Scott, of the Royal Engineers. one of ‘Bob’s’ best friends, got him coaxed into his house for a night or two; but the dog was evidently unhappy, and soon returned to his quieter quarters under the tombstone.

Bob got to know Sergeant’s dinner hours to a minute. With military precision he would meet him at George IV Bridge at a certain hour each day, go home with him, and share his dinner.

In the afternoon, when Sergeant Scott prepared to return to the office, Bob would give him a ‘Scotch convoy’ a short distance past Greyfriars, give a farewell wag or two with his tail and trot away back to the graveyard.’ As the sergeant was a surveyor he may have been attached to the Ordnance Survey Office in Melbourne Place an extension of George IV Bridge.

The exhibition will be moving to Linlithgow and Prestonpans Libraries. when it finishes its run at Whitburn Library.

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