Common Ridings, portrait photography Scotland
Braw Lassies and Honest Lads, Left Hand Lasses and Right Hand Men, Cornets and Coldstreamers, all titles given to the upstanding youths who champion their towns during the summer Common Riding festivals of the Scottish Borders. Festivals in which they are charged with carrying the burgh or town standard around the common land and to “bring it back unsullied and untarnished.”