One of the Scottish Borders' most successful mills is sold off by liquidators.

The looms from Heather Mills in Selkirk are part of the Richard Roberts Group assets which are to be sold after the company went into administration before Christmas. This business is probably the last in Scotland which handled the entire process of cloth manufacture. Raw wool was taken in and high quality cloth output. The wool was washed, coloured, spun and woven, then exported. But now no more.

There are a substantial number of modern spinning machines and looms with enough commercial value to be sold on, but, tragically, there are a number of amazing carding machines and blending machines which are destined for the scrap merchants breaking hammer, to be dismantled and turned into anonymous metal, for who knows what use. Some of these machines have been producing since the 1920's and are undeniably unique and irreplaceable. But they are now a part of Scottish history with no use and no home. Most of the equipment in these panoramas is almost certainly now (only a few weeks later) gone, reduced to pieces and melted down.