Waverley

Today Edinburgh’s Waverley Station has been in the news. The station was named after Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley novels and today the station was decorated with his quotations to commemorate the anniversary of the publication of the novels in 1814. For a while Sir Walter Scott was considered to be as great as Shakespeare with his novels being very popular and he did much to make Scotland a tourist venue.

I have frequently admired these silhouettes of the Edinburgh skyline on some of the upper walkways and have tried to crop them but if I do too much the image is too small to be accepted by Blip. So I have left part of the girders and glass roof visible.

A quote from one of his Waverley novels which is very relevant to the world of today;

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.