Anniversary of the death of Fiddy...

Friday 29th October marks the anniversary of the death of Fiddy.

The black and tan spaniel belonged to William Chambers and his wife Harriet. When the publisher wrote the little dog's life-story, a copy was exhibited in the Great Exhibition of 1851’s printing and bookbinding section.

William Chambers who had been born in Peebles purchased a sixteenth century property in the High Street known as Queensberry Lodging. The ancient building was remodelled to provide the town with a public meeting hall, library and museum.

When Fiddy died in 1858, the same year that Bobby was said to have appeared in Greyfriars graveyard, a plaster cast of the spaniel was set up on a wall in the museum of the Chambers Institution.

Fiddy is buried at Glenormiston overlooking the Tweed.

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