Photographs Old and New
St. Abbs has always been popular with photographers and one of the richest resources illustrating the village’s history is the large number of postcards depicting the village and surrounding area through the years.
Robbie Nisbet
Many of the photographs of the village were taken by Robbie Nisbet, who was once the village grocer, sub-postmaster and general merchant. Robbie’s family owned and ran the local shop. In a time before supermarket when few people had a car the village shop was the centre of village life. It sold just everything from a needle to an anchor and if they didn’t stock it they would go to no end to procure it for the customer.
Robbie Nisbet was also a passionate photographer selling his photographs as postcards from the village shop. Many of the postcards shown in the following pages where taken by Robbie Nisbet. Look out for the initials R.N. on the postcards.
Village Life
Picking up where Robbie Nisbet left off, the Community Website has collected together photographs which document village life. The intention is that we'll document village life over the course of each year. As we've only just started we only have photographs from 2009. Click here to see this years photographs. You can also see the other peoples pictures of St. Abbs in the St. Abbs Group of the Flickr website.