It's 50 years since huge crowds turned out in Langholm to welcome Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon.
It is a moment they still talk about in Langholm 50 years after the event.
An invitation had gone out not long after his famous "small step" on the surface of the Moon in 1969.Grace Brown, who was depute town clerk at the time, said they were stunned when he accepted. "Now whether we would ever have got him if he hadn't been coming to Edinburgh I don't know but anyway it was quite a scoop for the town as you can imagine."
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