South Queensferry - The Binks
by Yvonne Johnstone
Title
South Queensferry - The Binks
Artist
Yvonne Johnstone
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Photograph - Photography
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Signage marking the original jetty used by pilgrims and St.Margaret, Queen of Scotland.
Born in the Kingdom of Hungary c.1045 and Died 16th November, 1093 in Edinburgh Castle.
Saint Margaret of Scotland, also known as Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess and a Scottish queen. Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland".
She was born in the Kingdom of Hungary to the expatriate English prince Edward the Exile.
Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland by the end of 1070.
Margaret was a very pious Christian, and among many charitable works she established a ferry across the Firth of Forth in Scotland for pilgrims travelling to St Andrews in Fife, which gave the towns of South Queensferry and North Queensferry their names.
In 1250, Pope Innocent IV canonised her, and her remains were reinterred in a shrine in Dunfermline Abbey in Fife, Scotland.
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December 15th, 2023
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