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Volume 36 Number 11 The world’s largest international Scottish newspaper May 2013 Publisher Offices of publication Valerie Cairney Australasian Office: PO Box 6202 Keeping Scottish history alive Editor Marrickville South, Sean Cairney NSW, 2204 More than a third of respondents celebrates its 90th birthday this Tel:(02) 9559-6348 EDITORIAL STAFF said they learned more about history year, bringing audiences the best in Jim Stoddart [email protected] from films, such as the recentMary live entertainment in the heart of The National Piping Centre Queen of Scots movie, starring Edinburgh. The stories generated North American Office: David McVey Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie. from this cultural landmark do not [email protected] Lady Fiona MacGregor The survey probed Scots’ awareness just come from the stage but also the Eric Bryan David C. Weinczok of key events and characters, building itself. The Playhouse has Judy Vickers with one of the questions asking hosted many big names over the past Nick Drainey respondents to match famous figures nine decades from royalty to music with historical facts. The report and theatre legends. The building has found three quarters of Scots could been saved by a group of passionate by Sean Cairney correctly match Mary to the fact locals who love it as much as some Follow us on social media that she was imprisoned for 19 years big names such as Billy Connolly and ach month in the Scottish before being beheaded in 1587. the resident ghost called Albert. Banner we cannot let an Despite Netflix’ blockbuster This month on June 21st the world issue go out without covering Outlaw King streaming into homes celebrates Arctic Day, on what is a piece on Scottish history. around the globe, with Chris Pine generally the longest day of the year Distributed monthly in Australia, Canada, EThe story of Scotland is incredibly in the title role of , and when the arctic is bathed in 24- New Zealand and the USA. ISSN 0707-073X complex, amazing, brutal and when it came to naming which battle hour daylight throughout the Arctic Australia Post Print Approved PP:100004806 layered. It really is a case that fact is he won, just over half of the young Circle. There is now also a Scottish Published monthly by Scottish Banner Publications stranger than fiction when it comes Scots (53%), aged 16-24 did not know connection to this day as a campaign PO Box 6220, Marrickville South, NSW, 2204, Australia to the tales of Scotland’s story. that Robert the Bruce led the Scots to get people to wear Antarctic There are of course countless to victory against the English at the and Arctic ribbons to raise The publisher reserves the right to reject, discontinue or omit any advertisement or to books covering all the drama and Battle of Bannockburn. awareness that our polar regions cancel any advertising contract for reasons satisfactory to the publisher, without notice, and without penalty to either party. All advertising and reading matter is subject to intrigue of Scotland’s past, as well The survey also looked at where are warming, and the ice is melting Publisher’s approval. Right reserved to revise or reject advertising and reading material as numerous films and television Scots get their knowledge of Scottish fast. Long-time readers may recall in accordance with standards acceptable to the Scottish Banner, without notice. The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable for damages arising out of errors productions. The international hit history from and reveals three in five the Scottish Banner first highlighted in advertising beyond the amount of space paid for, whether such errors are due to show and best-selling book series, Scots of all ages are learning about the Antarctic tartan back in 2000 and negligence, copy right or otherwise. The publisher does not endorse the historical Outlander, certainly is helping it from television. Ironically, when this month we are pleased to again accuracy of the editorial stance of materials submitted for publication. The publisher reserves the right edit all submitted material prior to publication. Scotland’s tourism industry with both asked who invented the television, highlight this great tartan and this

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Page 2 • The Scottish Banner • June 2019 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Special guests visit The Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow cotland’s national conservatoire passionate about the value of the arts to set the stage for a right royal day society and is committed, as we are, to in May when His Royal Highness, the vital importance of early access to and The Prince Charles, Duke of progression in arts education. The arts have SRothesay paid an official visit to the such a crucial role to play in the current world-leading performing arts institution, and future well-being of individuals, and a famous graduate also received a communities and society as whole and this welcome home. His Royal Highness, who visit is a chance to celebrate the creative is the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s and performing arts at the Conservatoire Patron, met students from a range of and the strong commitment of our Patron. disciplines and saw some of their creative and performance work. The Royal Conservatoire welcomed back actor and The Royal Conservatoire graduate Sam Heughan, lead actor in the hit TV drama Outlander. Sam met with His of Scotland is one of Royal Highness during his tour and later hosted a Q&A session with acting students. Europe’s most multi- Prince Charles, the Duke of Rothesay, Celebrate the creative and disciplinary arts education shares the stage with actor Sam Heughan. performing arts environments, teaching The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) creativity of the institution’s professionals- on 17 November 1994 to mark her is one of Europe’s most multi-disciplinary music, drama, dance, in-training. He is expected to visit the Golden Jubilee as Patron. Following in arts education environments, teaching Conservatoire’s New Athenaeum Theatre his grandmother’s footsteps, The Duke of music, drama, dance, production and production and film. to see the technical fit-up for an opera Rothesay became Patron in 2003. film. It is the only institution in the United production and will be given a taster of a Sam Heughan, who was born in Kingdom to offer an honours degree percussion masterclass. Dumfries and Galloway, has enjoyed in Traditional Music and is the first UK “I’m also delighted that Sam Heughan Scotland’s national conservatoire continued success on stage and screen institution to offer a performance degree was able to join us for this special received its royal prefix in 1944 from King since graduating in 2003. He is the star in British Sign Language and English. occasion. Sam is a fantastic role model and George V. The then-Queen Elizabeth of hit TV period drama series Outlander, Committed to widening access, RCS I hope he too enjoys his visit. It’s always a assumed the role of Patron, a role in playing lead character Jamie Fraser, a role works in partnership with The Prince’s pleasure to welcome our graduates back which she continued as Queen Elizabeth which has earned him a string of awards. Foundation to deliver progressive home to RCS to share their experiences The Queen Mother until her death in He recently co-starred as a secret agent teaching in strings and modern ballet to with current students.” 2002. During her patronage, Queen in the comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me children and young people in Ayrshire Elizabeth The Queen Mother officially alongside Mila Kunis and Justin Theroux from Dumfries House. Scotland’s national conservatoire opened the Conservatoire’s purpose- and will be back on the big screen in Professor Jeffrey Sharkey, Principal of During his visit, His Royal Highness had built Renfrew Street building in 1987. Bloodshot, based on the Valiant Comics’ the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, said: the opportunity to meet students and She also received the institution’s first superhero of the same name, and SAS: Red “We’re delighted to have a Patron who is staff and see at first hand the artistry and honorary doctorate at Clarence House Notice, based on the book by Andy McNab. Tartan of the Month-The Forth Bridges Tartan

The Scottish Banner is pleased to be The sett has been established as a feature offering the Tartan of the Month series of tartan to represent each of the three highlighting a variety of different, centuries of The Forth Bridges; the widest unique and colourful tartans from central white band notes a count of around the world which are registered 20, representing the completion of the with the Scottish Register of Tartans Queensferry Crossing in 2017. The widest in Edinburgh. The Scottish Register of grey bands note a count of 19 to represent Tartans was established by an act of the completion of The Forth Road Bridge in the in November 1964, this section also provides a visual of 2008 and promotes and preserves the 2 towers of the suspension bridge with information about historic and its central crosses. The widest red bands contemporary tartans from Scotland count 18 representing the completion of and throughout the world. Text and the Forth Rail Bridge in 1890. The design image use is courtesy of the Scottish features the 3 colours of each of The Register of Tartans (SRT). Forth Bridges, also featured in the brand logo representing this iconic location ommissioned in recognition of, and visitor destination. This design (SRT and to celebrate, The Forth Bridges, reference 12468) was registered in April CScotland, being the only location 2019 and has been exclusively designed worldwide to have a transport bridge by Kinloch Anderson Ltd for Transport constructed in each of the 3 past centuries. Scotland/The Forth Bridges.

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Send us your inquiries on life’s little question marks. Ever wanted to know what happened to your old pal from home, how to make SCOT POURRI your favourite Scottish meal, or wondered about a certain bit of Scottish history? The New York 79th Cameron Highlanders Victory Calls! Hello from Tasmania, As I often enjoy reading your paper, I thought I might take the liberty of sending you a poem I wrote after hearing a pipe band on the street last year. As an old Scottish lassie, it stirred my blood a wee bit! Victory Calls! Hear the skirl of bagpipes , oh hear their mighty call, Throwing us back to old times , when highland men stood tall. Proud tartan clans all gathered to see their battles won. Shy deer would watch from mountains, then through the heather run. Those bagpipes once did echo, so clear across the glen, Pure and wild and rousing. They spoke to all Scots men. “Come follow us to freedom! Make your cry be heard! Stand gallant and victorious - our foes will not be spared!” Staunch kilted men stood firm, determined in their fight, To risk their lives for justice, for what they felt was right. All battled in to history - some made it home, some died. Such stories will forever be a part of Scotland’s pride. How rich these pipes are calling, still lifting hearts again. Shrill and loud and joyful. Pride surges through each vein. Their sounds pervade the heavens - so glorious and strong. Surely ancient spirits hear once more, the old ancestral song! Irene Bale (nee Lauder) Tasmania, Australia

FROM OUR SOCIAL MEDIA Send your photos or letters via social media Highland locals The Sir John De Graeme lion

I would like any Cameron who is from uncle General Sherman commanding Edinburgh that will be attending the general of the regiment, pre-American Gathering next year Civil War uniform of the regiment to make contact. To make it easier and the New York 79th Cameron for you to find me I’ll be wearing a Highlanders Battle Flag. replica of the New York 79th Cameron Jon Evans Highlanders uniform. They were an Columbus, Nebraska American Civil War Regiment that USA was made up mostly of Scots. They Email: [email protected] were a Scottish regiment that fought Ed note: Thanks for sharing this Jon and in the American Civil War. I include we hope you make some connections for The Sir John De Graeme lion has a picture of myself, my great - great the Clan Cameron Gathering. Caught this beauty up at Glen Etive this now returned to his place atop the morning was rather wet and windy. Memorial Fountain. GN Photography The Society of John De Graeme Creating Scotland It is good to keep in touch with the new Scotland Scotland and the past and other things with the Weather is first. Scottish Banner. Robert the Bruce The Declaration of Statue Snow, of course, and wind. Thank you Ron for your columns. Rock and gnarly pine for strength. Ray Parry High mountains for solitude, Lismore, NSW valleys for softer days. Australia Lonely crags for mystics Ed note: Thanks for your note Ray, to sit upon and dream. Ron will be missed but has certainly Wildcats for strength and pipes for soul. informed many people across the Heather, gorse, and bluebells globe on genealogy. fight through thin and rocky soil, show how to drive the deep roots May 2019 edition which hold its people here. I always look forward to each monthly publication, which I subscribe to David Black electronically. This month however, May USA 2019, was particularly interesting and The Declaration of Arbroath is a informative. I loved it. Ron Dempsey declaration of , Thanks, I have been writing to Ron Dempsey for made in 1320. It is in the form of a letter about 6-8 years about different names Dorothy (Munro) Scallon in Latin submitted to Pope John XXII, and things. You have had a great column Canada Sunset at Robert the Bruce, dated 6 April 1320, intended to confirm Bannockburn. which is also very interesting. I have Ed note: thank you Dorothy for your Scotland’s status as an independent. Robert Gibb been part of the Maclean and Glen Innes kind feedback, and we are glad to GN Photography Scotland Festivals for nearly 30 years. hear you enjoyed May’s features. Scotland

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Consultation launched to protect The 2019 British Pipe ’s marine heritage Band Championships event in the history of the Shetland Isles, and the wreckage that remains is a marine heritage site of national importance that can greatly enhance our knowledge and understanding of the Swedish East India Company and its trading activity around Scotland’s coasts during the 18th century. We believe that designating the site as a Historic MPA will promote its heritage value, and I’d like to encourage as many people as possible to take this opportunity to share their views about he Dublin-based pipe band St this important piece of our nation’s Laurence O’Toole have reigned priceless marine heritage.” Tvictorious at one of the world’s The Drottningen af Swerige (Queen of Site of wrecked Queen of Sweden proposed for largest piping events. The band were Sweden) was the flagship of the Swedish designation as Historic Marine . crowned winners of the British Pipe East India Company, and the largest Band Championships in Paisley in vessel in the company’s fleet. During May. The band’s drum corps also consultation has been launched recognise and protect this important the 18th century, the Swedish East India took the drumming first prize at the seeking views from the public on part of Scotland’s marine heritage with Company played an important role in championships. More than 120 bands and the designation of the site of an HMPA status. Historic MPAs aim to growing northern European trade with 4,000 pipers and drummers travelled from 18thcentury merchant ship which preserve marine historic assets of national China in tea and silk. across the UK and , and as far as Asunk off the coast of Shetland over 250 years importance, so they can be protected, The vessel left Gothenburg on 9 the United States, Denmark and Belgium ago. The wrecked vessel is believed to be the valued and understood. January 1745, en route to Cadiz for to St James Playing Fields for the event. Queen of Sweden, a merchant ship of the The wreck of Queen of Sweden is arguably more supplies before heading to Ian Embelton, chief executive of the Swedish East India Company which hit a rock the best preserved remains of a merchant China. However she quickly ran into Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, off the headland of Knab while seeking shelter sailing vessel of the Swedish East India trouble a few days later as the weather said: “The British Championships are in Bressay Sound, Shetland on 12 January Company located in waters around Scotland. deteriorated. With poor visibility and the first of our five major championships 1745. The remains lie close to Twageos Point, under blizzard conditions, the ship taking place throughout the summer and we saw a top-class display of piping and at the southern entrance to Lerwick Harbour. Significant event in the struggled to maintain course, forcing drumming from the world’s best.” Historic Environment Scotland (HES), history of the Shetland Isles the captain to head for the safety of The five major championship contests who advise on Philip Robertson, Deputy Head of Lerwick. With the safety of shore in will conclude with the World Pipe Band the designation of historic MPAs, has Designations at HES, said: “The sinking sight, she struck a rock. Luckily all the Championships in August in Glasgow. recommended the Scottish Government of the Queen of Sweden was a significant crew made it to shore safely. The Battle of Glenshiel – 300 Years On

PROGRAM Friday 12th July ‘Drams & Drama’ – Whisky Tasting event and Scottish movie! - Mini British Film Festival Scottish Film advance screening - Palace Cinema Como, South Yarra th • James Graham, Marquis of Montrose une 10 1719: Hanoverian Government th forces under Major-General Wightman (School of Sir Anthony Van Dyck) Saturday 13 July Genealogy Seminar – RACV City Club, Bourke St. close in on a Jacobite army under • James VII portrayed as a military ‘Taking Flight’ - Hawthorn Pipes & Drums Concert the Marquis of Tullibardine in the commander by Sir Peter Liley – Hawthorn Arts Centre Jmountainous terrain of the Western • Queen Anne as Princess of Denmark Victorian Pipers Association Championships by Jan van der Vaardt Highlands. The two armies engage that Presbyterian Ladies College, Burwood afternoon in the valley of Glenshiel, in the Gallery No 4, The Wolfson Gallery: Sunday 14th July “In the footsteps of Jean Redpath” with Fiona Ross conclusive battle of the Rising of 1719. • James Francis Edward Stuart portrayed th Venue to be advised June 10 2019: 300 years on to the as a baby by Nicholas de Largillière (1691) day, Michael Nevin, Chairman of the • Print of William, Duke of Gloucester Pop-up performances – City CBD 1745 Association, will commemorate the th • François de Troy’s portraits of Princess Tuesday 16 July Mini British Film Festival Scottish Film private anniversary of the Battle of Glenshiel by Louisa, sister of James Francis Edward daytime screening - Kino Cinema, Collins Street recounting the events leading up to it, Stuart (1700) and James himself (1701) th and the course of the battle itself, at the Thursday 18 July Ceilidh Dance – Abbotsford Convent • Peter Tillemans’ 1719 masterpiece of th Scottish National Portrait Gallery. The The Battle of Glenshiel Friday 19 July Genealogy Day – GSV Lvl 6, 85 Queen St. Melbourne talk will start in Gallery No 1, drawing on Saturday 20th July Gala Dinner & Concert – Melbourne Town Hall the paintings there to describe key events The 1745 Association is a voluntary (Entertainment by Melbourne Fiddle Club, that led up to Rising, before moving on association established in 1946 to study the Hawthorn Pipe Band, John Carlo Belotti, Glenbrae to Galley No 4 (the Wolfson Gallery), Jacobite period, record and preserve the Celtic Dancers and Claymore) concluding with a detailed appreciation memory of those who participated in it, and st of Peter Tillemans’ contemporary 1719 endeavour to safeguard the Jacobite heritage. Sunday 21 July Kirkin 'O the Tartan – Scots Church, Collins Street. masterpiece, The Battle of Glenshiel. The talks are free and open to all at the Tartan Day Parade - Pipe Band Parade – Collins St. Paintings that will be covered in the talk: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Gallery No 1 and Gallery No 4 (The Wolfson Gallery), To book events and for regular event updates visit: Gallery No 1: 1 Queen Street, Edinburgh. For details see: https://www.melbournetartanfestival.com.au • The Execution of King Charles I www.1745association.org.uk

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By: David McVey The Monument on the Hill Institution, now Strathclyde University. By 1817, he was manager of Glasgow’s gasworks company. He was both an able manager and someone who showed an interest in caring for and developing his workforce; the company’s Workmen’s Institute, complete with a library and fully- equipped laboratory, was opened in 1824. Neilson was also interested in improving the efficiency of the blast furnaces used in iron smelting. He read a paper on the issue to the Glasgow Philosophical Society as early as 1824. Later he hatched the idea of injecting hot air, rather than cold, into the furnace. This greatly increased the efficiency of the blast, and so less coal was needed to smelt a given weight of iron. hen you see a monument in a The rapidly expanding (and iron-hungry) hilltop, you have to climb to rail and shipbuilding industries loved this the summit and investigate. idea, as iron became a great deal cheaper. I do, anyway. So, when I was Wvisiting Galloway, and saw a sizeable kind Obelisk of local stone of obelisk on top of Barstobrick Hill, there Neilson demonstrated the effectiveness of was only one thing to do. the new method at the Clyde Ironworks Actually, let’s start at the beginning, during 1828-9; it became known as the with James Beaumont Neilson (1792- hot-blast process. He patented the idea 1865). He’s a largely forgotten figure in 1828 but had to go to court several yet he revolutionised the iron-smelting times to defend the patent and license trade that was one of the drivers of the his invention. One of the more expensive industrial revolution. Neilson was born cases, heard before a jury, was estimated to Barstobrick Hill and the Neilson Monument. in Shettleston, now in the East End of have cost £40,000 - an unimaginable sum Glasgow, but then a village on the city’s then. Eventually, honours were heaped on outskirts. His father was an engineer Neilson; he was even elected a member of Inscription A familiar sight and Neilson studied chemistry, physics the Royal Society in 1846. There’s now a Visitor Centre at the heart It’s a monument of few words then. 1883 was and mathematics at the Andersonian Neilson retired from the Glasgow gas of the Queenshall and Barstobrick the date of building, ‘W.M.N’ was Neilson’s son company in 1847 and four years later estates and the crag-girt hill looms above William who raised the funds, and ‘Fecit’ is bought the estate of Queenshall, below it. The walk is actually much easier simply the Latin for ‘built’ or ‘made’. Barstobrick Hill near Kirkcudbright and than it looks on an easy, signposted The hill and monument are a familiar The Gathering settled there. After his death, his son raised grass path. You’ll quickly reach the sight for miles around; they can be easily funds to build a monument on the summit 588ft summit with the monument, picked out from Threave Castle, several miles of the hill; the monument was unveiled founded on ribs of rock, looming over to the east, for example. Yet few people know in 1883 and there it remains, a 35ft high you and with much of the Stewartry of much about the man it commemorates obelisk of local stone. Kirkcudbright far below your feet. or his achievements. A couple of times, on The west-facing side of the monument recent visits, I’ve overheard people in the bears the inscription; Visitor Centre refer to the Nelson Monument. And if we’ve ever benefitted NEILSON I suppose many must assume it’s just another HOT BLAST tribute to the Trafalgar Guy. It’s not. he Gathering brings the from inexpensive ironwork 1828 And if we’ve ever benefitted from wider community together in - and we all have - we should There’s a further inscription on the inexpensive ironwork - and we all have Tcelebration of Celtic music, eastern face that runs; - we should climb the hill, give the dark culture and performance. In the climb the hill, give the dark 1883 stonework of the memorial a friendly slap, spirit of the Royal Edinburgh stonework of the memorial a W.M.N and pay tribute to James Beaumont Neilson, Military Tattoo, against the historic FECIT an unsung pioneer of our industrial heritage. backdrop of Ipswich, visitors will friendly slap, and pay tribute witness the colour and spectacle to James Beaumont Neilson, of the Queensland Pipe Band Championships, featuring 250 of an unsung pioneer of our Australia’s pipe band competitors. industrial heritage. A Highland dancing competition, Celtic music, lost arts and a medieval re-enactment will also feature at Neilson, we’re told, was ‘a quiet, this annual Highland gathering reflective, unassuming and earnest of Scottish, Irish, Welsh, French, man, thoroughly honest... kind-hearted Spanish, Cornish Celtic cultures. and fond of harmless mirth.’ In 1843 Visitors can also sample Haggis, learn he left the at the how to play the bagpipes and even Disruption and joined the emergent Free participate in the strong man style Church in protest at the patronage of , featuring the caber local grandees in the national church. toss, kilted dash and tug-of-war. The popular stereotype of Free Kirk Bring the whole clan along and members is of forbidding, backward discover Celtic heritage and historic types, not pioneering men of applied Ipswich at The Gathering, Sunday 23 science. But then, most stereotypes are June at Ipswich Turf Club. Early bird misleading. The attractive picture of a tickets are only $10, or a whole family can modest, self-effacing and devout Neilson get in for only $25 with the Clan Pass. suggests he would have been horrified by the immensity of his memorial and its For details: www.gatheringfestival.com.au Inscription on the Neilson Monument. attention-grabbing position.

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Scotspeak is a selection of quotes which made headlines in SCOTSPEAK Scotland last month on a variety of current Scottish affairs. “The Open Streets scheme showcases conception to full operation. My heart- Aviemore local Brian O’Donnell said “Ultimately, we have a big problem with Edinburgh as a city that puts people felt congratulations to everyone involved, that Loch Vaa, near Aviemore has been climate change. This is an answer to first. Helping make the city centre more this is an extraordinary accomplishment. losing millions of gallons of water since utilising the true value in our forestry. It is a accessible to users of all abilities to walk, V&A has been a game-changer September last year, with estimates that great natural resource. I currently lease this wheel, cycle, relax and connect. Evidence for Scottish tourism, propelling the East the water level has dropped by 1.4m (4.5ft). site, but am in the market to buy forestry is very clear that vehicle dominance of our of Scotland into the global spotlight for the first time. Bottling is currently urban environment is a major cause of air and showcasing our cultural offering contracted out, but I hope to put a facility pollution. In areas where pollution exceeds to a worldwide audience. Making this in place on site as we progress. This is legal limits, 80% of harmful nitrous oxide prestigious shortlist will undoubtedly something I did first in the north Pennines, gas comes from transport. Closing streets to increase interest in the museum, which but obviously there is a lot more birch traffic does have a big and positive impact. is already exceeding expectation, and available in the Highlands. Birch syrup As an example, last year’s London Marathon, continue to position Dundee as a must- is much more savoury than maple syrup, which includes road closures across the city, visit destination. We wish V&A Dundee the which is sweet. It works well as a glaze for coincided with an 89% drop in air pollution best of luck at the final in July.” fish and meat and a panacotta for desserts.” in central London. Open Streets is a great Malcolm Roughead, VisitScotland Chief Scots businessman Jim Mann said his initiative to make our city centres healthier, Executive, said on the announcement that company have “tapped” hundreds of litres greener and safer places for everyone.” V&A Dundee has been selected as one of of sap from almost 10,000 birch trees near “It has been such a success and the five finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Beauly. The entrepreneur hopes to offer a Grace Martin, Deputy Director, Sustrans number of visitors is up by 41% on this Year 2019. The winning museum will be product is sustainable and ethical and an Scotland, said as Edinburgh made history time last year, so it is clear that many announced at a ceremony at the Science alternative to the popular Canadian variety. last month when it becomes the first city in people want to see this for themselves. Museum in London on Wednesday 3 July the UK to join the Open Streets movement. The feedback has been very positive 2019 and will receive £100,000. The scheme aims to replicate the success of and we have visitors from as far afield similar events in cities like New York, Paris “Obviously independence has got political as America and Australia, but it is the and Brussels, where regular car-free days ramifications, but it’s a moral cause, that is amount of schools who have booked visits have revolutionised the way people use not a political cause. This is a moral cause and already come here which has been their streets, encouraging healthy, active and so this movement, this march, is open so pleasing. The Friends of the Gordon travel, inclusivity and cultural appreciation. to everybody who desires an independent Highlanders have created kid-sized tunics Scotland, whether they are Scottish or they and Glengarries, such as would have been are not Scottish. There’s people here from worn by the regiment during the conflict, across the world who have travelled, and and the youngsters and their teachers “No-one wants to limit the rights of obviously from across the UK.” have shown us that they really care about crofters in any way. But in a world that The All Under One Banner march organiser what happened more than 100 years is reducing risk it would have been good Neil Mackay said as up to 35,000 people ago. It’s the first time we have attempted to know what the increased risk to both marched for Scottish independence in an immersive experience and the trench people and property were before returning Glasgow. The March For Independence is has clearly captured many people’s the cows to the popular village streets.” one of a series of events taking place across imaginations.” Plockton resident Ed Stanley said as a 15- Scotland between May and October. Bryan Snelling of the Gordon Highlanders year agreement with the National Trust for “Loch Vaa is a unique loch in Scotland Museum said that a new trench feature Scotland to keep Highland cattle off the “This incredible achievement cements V&A because it is gin clear. It is a wonderful to the museum has helped boost visitor street and beach in Plockton came to an Dundee’s reputation as one of the UK’s fishing loch, especially in evenings. It is a numbers by more than 40%. The recreation end. Historic land rights allowing crofters most significantly important cultural spring-fed loch, there are no tributaries, so of how life would have been like for so to have their cows on the main street to attractions and recognises more than something is happening underground. It’s many soldiers throughout the First World the common grazing on the machair were a decade’s worth of work, from initial almost like somebody has pulled the plug.” War opened to the public in February. resumed last month.

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The Scottish Banner • June 2019 • Page 7 THE SCOTTISH BANNER By: Rosalind Jones Polar Awareness Tartans to help save Planet Earth geography, fauna and flora of the vast ice him having to be dramatically rescued by covered Antarctic continent and ocean. ski plane from a crumbling ice floe! The Arctic tartan is the reverse (there being The Antarctic is melting too but rescue no continent, just ocean surrounded by from melting ice over an ocean 15,000 feet frozen land masses), however green – for deep won’t be a hazard for another British Taiga forest, replaces yellow representing expeditioner, but there will be many others penguin plumage. Initially designed to help though. Sir Wally Herbert, who wrote his protect these environments, twenty years book A World of Men about exploration in later, urgency for protecting the entire Antarctica, would be surprised to know planet has brought these tartans to the fore. about Wendy Searle, a 42 year-old mother To wear them shows you are taking global of Scottish descent, from Salisbury. heating, climate change, and your own Her solo unassisted trek of 700 miles, from personal responsibility to cut emissions, one side of Antarctica to the other, is over seriously – and you want others to know it. frozen terra firma. Her challenge is to haul everything she needs with her and break a record. When she starts, around December st 1st – Antarctic Day, wearing around her June the 21 is Arctic neck an Antarctic silk scarf and hauling her Day, which will also be kayak shaped ‘pulk’ over rucked ice and around crevasses, she will carry with her the world’s first Polar a 10 metre reel of Antarctic tartan ribbon. This unique ribbon, donated by the House Awareness Day. of Tartan in Crieff, will journey by ‘Wendy power’ all the way across Antarctica and be sold to raise funds for her sponsored charities when she returns safely home The polar bear on the Arctic tartan is to again. With this provenance the ribbons highlight the fact that many polar bears should become collector’s items. are starving to death. The proud King Who else can boast ownership of tartan penguins may suffer the same fate because to have journeyed so far by human there are some colonies of penguins in endeavour? You can find out more about the Antarctic already facing starvation. Wendy’s record breaking challenge from The sad truth is - it’s our fault because of www.southpole2020.com all the carbon emissions from the coal, oil, and gas we’ve burned in the last 100 years, The perfect ‘polar’ pin plus increasing methane from rearing beef First, however, it’s Arctic Awareness Day. and sheep. There are many other factors A word about the snowflake. Everyone too. It is the Arctic, because it is largely sea, knows that a single snowflake is a tiny crystal that is warming faster than the Antarctic of ice. We can be like these cooling crystals which is largely land, but both are melting and by cutting our own emissions help stop – fast. This polar melt will have worldwide temperatures rising further. Snowflakes are implications which will affect us all if we the perfect ‘polar’ pin for these symbolically don’t do our best to stop temperature rise. designed Polar tartans which have so much Some may find this hard to believe, so let depending on them. So, will you wear them The Arctic climate is changing. Permafrost me give you an ‘Arctic tartan’ example. and help save Planet Earth? If you would like to wear the Arctic is melting, glaciers are receding, sea ice is Beautiful, pristine, frozen Tartan ribbon with its snowflake pin, environments then go to the online shop of the UKAHT disappearing, and sea levels rising. These climatic Sir Wally Herbert, was in 1969, the first to purchase: www.ukaht.org/shop changes directly affect the Arctic ecosystem, the lives person fully recognised as having walked to the North Pole. He was also the first man of the local people, and the rest of the world because to have a made in the Arctic tartan. In retirement at his home in , the Arctic plays a special role in global climate. Scotland, after years undertaking research at both the North and the South Poles, une the 21st is Arctic Day, which will also office shop in Port Lockroy, Antarctica. he painted exquisite pictures of these be the world’s first Polar Awareness Many proud tourists return home with a beautiful, pristine, frozen environments, Day. In six months, December 1st will tartan scarf or tie, and now they can wear illustrating the numerous books he’d be Antarctic Day, and on both days’ them on Polar Awareness Days knowing written about his expeditions, including Jtartan ribbons, held by a silver snowflake that both tartans are now a badge to raise Across the Top of the World and Across the The Antarctic Tartan. pin, will be worn by supporters. Why? awareness of climate change and it’s Arctic Ocean. But what Sir Wally Herbert Because they want to make others aware devastating global effects. achieved half a century ago just isn’t of what is happening at our poles, and the possible today. To set out from a land future devastating effects for Planet Earth. Designed to help protect mass and walk across the Arctic Ocean This might seem a big commitment, but environments on a floating layer of ice is increasingly these tartans are very special. The Antarctic The mirror twin tartans were inspired by hazardous if not impossible. Today, when tartan, designed in 1999, raises funds to two magnificent King penguins. Wildlife sunlight returns after three months of help conservation projects in Antarctica, photographer Ben Osborne captured the winter dark, the ice melts too fast, - as whilst the Arctic tartan, designed in 2000, majestic pair, shown on the front cover of the second owner of an Arctic tartan kilt, initially raised funds for WWF before it too the BBC’s book Life in the Freezer. discovered. Young Scottish explorer Dave was given to the UK Antarctic Heritage Their brilliant colours were the palette for Mill from , undertook his daring The Arctic Tartan. Trust and sold online and at their post the tartan sett which is based upon the solo 500-mile trek in 2002 but it ended with

Page 8 • The Scottish Banner • June 2019 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Reasons to visit Scotland’s Small Isles during Mesolithic times, and a dagger and a number of burial cairns have also been found which date back to the Bronze Age. • Stay in a bothy. Rum also has two mountain bothies perfect for those who are getting lost in its brilliant landscape or camp out under the stars. Wild camping is also allowed on all of the Small Isles for those who want to truly be at one with nature. • Get on your bike (or in a kayak). A company called Eigg Adventures hires out bikes and kayaks, as well as organising guided tours. • Make friends with the locals. The Isle of Rum Community Shop is run entirely on a voluntary basis by members of the community and includes a post office so you his month marks exactly 22 by ferry from Mallaig, with most having • out the wildlife. The Small Isles can send a postcard to the folks back home. years since the successful a daily service perfectly suited for day have an abundance of wildlife. Canna • Find a favourite new ale. Eigg is home to buy-out of the Scottish Isle trips, ideal for cyclists and hill walkers has designated a Special Protection Area its own microbrewery Laig Bay Brewery. of Eigg, located to the south looking to escape for the day. under the EU Birds Directive, for its large Tof the Skye and to the north of the population of breeding sea birds, ideal • Live the ‘good life’. The Earth Ardnamurchan peninsula in the Inner Things to see and do in the region for those trepid bird watchers. Eigg is Connections Eco Centre runs residential , by members of the local • Escape to (almost) your own private a diverse island with wildflowers and eco courses and holidays to promote community. It also celebrates over two island… and make friends with a herd arctic• alpines, otters hunting along green living, which fits in well with the decades of Eigg as a self-sustained of highland ponies. With a population the coastline and birds of prey soaring whole green ethos of Eigg. island (it generates virtually 100% of of just 38, the island of Muck is the high above. Seals, dolphins and minke • Try the local delicacies… Visitors to its electricity using renewable energy), smallest and most southerly of the whales are often spotted from the ferry. Muck are also encouraged to try Muck making it a great time to visit to Small Isles. It has beautiful sandy Eigg’s current bird list totals 212 species. meat, which is famed for its succulent experience the tranquil and beautiful beaches, rocky shores and the 452ft • Discover island history…. Canna also lamb and tender steak. surroundings of the island. Beinn Airein with its panoramic major importance for the archaeology, • And finally, leave the car at home. Cars However, there are always great view of the surrounding islands, and history and culture of the Inner Hebrides are not permitted (or needed) to access reasons to visit Eigg, along with its beyond to Skye and the mainland. and west coast of Scotland from the the beauty and features of the Small neighbouring islands of Rum, Muck It also has a high population of highland earliest prehistoric times to the present Isles. Simply put one foot in front of the and Canna. All four islands are reached ponies which add its magical allure. day. It is believed that Muck was occupied other or bring your two wheelers! Melbourne Tartan Festival 2019

he Scots are coming to town! South Yarra and Collins Street courtesy The skirl of pipes will be echoing of the Mini British Film Festival, a fun through the streets and laneways Scottish themed Family Day, a grand Gala of Melbourne from 12-21st of July Dinner and Concert at the Melbourne Tduring the Melbourne Tartan Festival. Town Hall are some of the events on offer. Pop up performances will surprise and The Melbourne Tartan Festival finale on entertain city shoppers throughout the Sunday 21st will begin with a Kirkin ‘o the week. You never know where one of our Tartan service at the Scots’ Church Collins performers will be! Just between us, we’re Street and in the afternoon a massed pipe told on good authority to be at iconic Block band parade through the City CBD to Arcade, Collins Street Melbourne on Sunday close out the festival. th afternoon 14 July. But keep it to yourself! The Melbourne Tartan Festival takes place July 12-21st. For full Ten days of activities details and to book tickets go to Opening night drinks and a Scottish film www.melbournetartanfestival.com.au on Friday 12th July will get the festival underway followed by ten days of activities. ‘Taking Flight’ concert with Hawthorn Pipe Inspired, designed and made in Scotland. Band, genealogy seminar and information Three of our striking Ailsa Bucket Totes, £105 each sessions hosted by the Genealogical Society of Victoria, a whisky tasting event at Westin (£87.50 each, excl. UK/EU Tax) Melbourne, a high energy ceilidh dance with the Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club, dunmorescotland.com + 44 (0)1968 660 078 Scottish film screenings at Palace Cinemas

The Scottish Banner • June 2019 • Page 9 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Why you need to visit Scotland’s cities this summer ere’s a quickfire guide to Attractions: There are plenty of places The food: Glasgow is home to foodie Perth is Scotland’s newest city and spending the summer in to explore the city’s rich history, institutions, such as Crolla’s Gelateria, as located on the banks of the River Scotland’s seven cities - take such as Discovery Point and Verdant well as reimagined pubs and bars providing Tay, an easily accessible city which your pick to discover places Works. Performance spaces, gardens a modern twist on seasonal Scottish food can be reached in 90 minutes by 90 Hto eat, things to do, and what’s on. and boat trips are all on offer too. and drink, such as The Finnieston. percent of Scotland’s population. Aberdeen Summer events: The views: Enter The , A walk: Follow the River Tay Dundee Summer Streets Festival, 19-21 July Scotland’s Centre for Design and Public Art Trail to find specially Dundee Flower & Food Festival, 6-8 September Architecture, to explore the exhibitions, Images courtesy of VisitScotland courtesy of Images commissioned sculptures along the visit the Mackintosh Centre, and take Edinburgh way, each inspired by the history in the city from the viewing platform. and natural landscapes of Perth. Attractions: Join a Glasgow School of Art The food: Dine in restaurants Tour, visit Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Scotland.org such as The Bothy and Tabla and Museum, or follow the City Centre Mural browse the amazing selection of Trail for creative insight into the city. goods in Provender Brown, an Summer events: award-winning delicatessen. Celtic FC Festival, 26 July The views: Walk through the woods up Spot dolphins in the harbour, World Pipe Band Championships, Text courtesy of Text Kinnoull Hill for a variety of veiwpoints, admire the striking architecture and 16 – 17 August including views across the city, and discover the cosmopolitan side to Piping Live!, 10 – 16 August along the River Tay. The clifftop Kinnoull this east coast city by the sea. Scotland’s capital has recently been listed Clydebuilt Festival, 21 September Tower is a particularly impressive sight. A walk: Wander the cobbled streets of as one of TripAdvisor’s Most Excellent Inverness Old Aberdeen to admire the cathedral- Cities, and quite rightly. Edinburgh thrives Attractions: Perth Museum and like grandeur of King’s College and in summertime, when the world-famous Art Gallery, Black Watch Museum, explore Cruickshank Botanic Garden. Edinburgh Festivals take centre stage. Perth Concert Hall and Perth Theatre The food: The city’s restaurants have a A walk: Calton Hill is a fascinating place will keep you entertained, as well fantastic array of local produce to play for a walk, home to a cacophony of as activities on the River Tay and with. Succulent Aberdeen Angus beef and monuments and the soon to be opened around surrounding Perthshire. fresh seafood dishes await at locations Collective gallery, as well as some of the Summer events: such as the Silver Darling Restaurant. finest panoramic views of the city. Perth Show, 2-3 August The views: Head to Torry Battery, which The food: In Edinburgh you’ll find four of Perth Highland Games, 11 August was used for defence during World War Scotland’s Michelin Star Restaurants, as Perth Festival of Yarn 2019, 7 September Two, to admire city views and see if you Known as the capital of the Highlands, well as plenty of other culinary delights Stirling can spot dolphins in the harbour. such as The Experience, Inverness is the perfect base for Attractions: Aberdeen Maritime Edinburgh Gin Distillery and Six by Nico. exploring the surrounding area, and has plenty of attractions of its own. Museum, Moray Firth boat trips and The views: Arthur’s Seat in Holyrood delightful parks and gardens await Park offers a birds-eye view of the city A walk: Head upstream along the in the city. Aberdeenshire is home to as well as Loch and the River Ness by foot or by bike and cross over 250 castles, including Dunnottar medieval ruins of St Anthony’s Chapel. the footbridge to the delightful Ness Castle, just south of the city. Islands. Keen walkers can continue Attractions: , The on to the . Summer events: Royal Yacht Britannia and The Palace Aberdeen Gin Fest 2019, 5 July of Holyroodhouse are a must for The food: Tuck into seasonal dishes at the Stonehaven Folk Festival, 12 July history lovers, while fans of a certain Kitchen Brasserie, enjoy coffee and cake Stonehaven Highland Games, 21 July Harry Potter may prefer to tour sites at Velocity Café and Bicycle Workshop, or Great Aberdeen Family Run, 25 August associated with J.K Rowling. sit back and listen to traditional Scottish music at the award-wining Hootananny pub. Stirling is a must for fans of Scottish Dundee Summer events history and lovers of the outdoors, Big Fun Run Edinburgh, July 28 The views: The striking Inverness Castle with Loch Lomond & The Trossachs The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, in the city centre offers excellent 360 National Park right on its doorstep. 2 – 24 August degree views along the River Ness. The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2– 26 August Attractions: The city is home to the A walk: Dumyat, at the end of the Edinburgh International Book impressive Inverness Cathedral, the Ochil hill range, is a rewarding short Festival, 10-26 August historic Victorian Market and Fort George. hike that offers views across the Glasgow Nearby you can also visit Clava Cairns, city and along the River Forth. Culloden Battlefield and Urquhart The food: Stirling is home to some Castle on the banks of Loch Ness. historic pubs, including Nicky-Tams, Summer events: as well as great spots for lunch, Named one of the Lonely Planet’s Top Piping Inverness 2019, June 29 like Cisco’s. Head to Port Street Ten ‘Best in Europe 2018’ destinations, Inverness Highland Games, 20 July for the regular farmers’ market Dundee is a UNESCO City of Design and Loch Ness Film Festival, 26-27 July to pick up some local treats. home to the stunning new V&A Dundee. Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, 1-3 August The views: Scale the 246 steps to the A walk: A walk or cycle along the Perth top of The National Wallace Monument River Tay provides excellent waterside views and passes some of the city’s to be rewarded with fantastic views. top attractions. Walk further to reach Did you know that the name Glasgow Attractions: History abounds, with Broughty Ferry, a charming seaside town. actually means ‘dear green place’? Stirling Castle, the site of the Battle of The food: Try The Flame Tree Café for their Home to over 90 parks and gardens, it’s Bannockburn and the Old Town Jail famed rainbow bagel, Jessie’s Kitchen for the perfect place to be on a summer’s open to visitors. Into the National Park delightful afternoon tea, and Castlehill day and was recently listed as one of plenty more attractions can be found. Restaurant for the dinner tasting menu. TripAdvisor’s Most Excellent Cities. Summer events: The views: Scale Dundee Law A walk: Take the Heritage Trail through Bridge of Allan Highland Games, 4 August to enjoy views over Dundee, Glasgow Botanic Gardens and return Stirling Highland Games, 17 August across the river and beyond. to the tea room for refreshments. Sruighlea Stirling Summer Festival, 17 August

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Australian Jim Stoddart was born in a Glasgow Tenement and raised in a Glasgow Housing Scheme 1943-1965. Jim will be KINGS CASTLES AND taking readers on a trip down memory lane, of a time and place that will never be the same again, and hopes even if only a “DURTY” WEE RASCALS few people in the Scot’s Diaspora have a dormant folk memory awakened, then he shall be more than delighted.

births to make assumptions about whether Genes for longevity they were aunts; uncles; brothers or On that same visit many years ago I cousins of Charles and Margaret but that bought a small booklet entitled Alloa could be misleading. Suffice it to say that and its Environs. It was a reprint of A some of the names that appear may have descriptive and Historical Sketch first been passed down to later generations. published in 1861, the same time that my I list some of these marriages and births great grandfather, Charles Baxter went simply for research purposes. As more off to the Amazon. The municipal Burgh of Alloa, according to its 1861 census was and more of these records become 6440 and the population of the parish available on the internet they may provide was 8713 in 1861. Although there was no some pointers for further investigation mention of any Baxter’s the booklet did by those who want to discover more. mention some Moirs who were holding - Jean, lawful daughter of James Baxter, office on the Board of Commissioners at stocking maker, in Alloa & Margaret the time. A James Moir Esq. was a Senior Wishart, born 28th April 1804. Magistrate and a Mr James Moir, Banker, - John Moir & Isabella Proctice (spelling was a Commissioner for the Burgh, the Commissioners seemingly acting in a may differ) recorded names for What can a Scottish graveyard tell you about your family? capacity similar to a town councillor. proclamation of bans on 19thMay A volunteer Rifle Corps, gazetted as and married 1st June 1821. First Clackmannanshire Rifle Volunteers What’s in a name? Little is known about the Baxter’s - William Moir & Maria Douglas, was formed in 1859 with officers being What’s your name? beyond Charles Baxter, my great married 18th August 1823. furnished with their commissions in 1860. A Robert Strang became colour-sergeant. Baldy Bain. grandfather, but the owner of the burial - William McPhie of the Parish of Logie What’s your ither? lair is not him. He was still only 15 in 1850 I would like to think that these men may & Jane Baxter of this parish recorded have had some family connections to my Ask ma mither. and would have been hardly interested in their names for proclamation and own ancestor Margaret Moir. purchasing burial lairs. It is undoubtedly Used by children as a tease or when not were married 5th February 1833. My older brother said to me that he his father, my great, great grandfather, also wanting to reveal their real names. had once visited a very old man residing a Charles Baxter and also a coppersmith - James Moir & Janet Strang in a care home somewhere near Stirling. married 23rd September 1833. s in any good family mystery, as who bought the lair. The little that is known Typical of a child’s memory he remembers well as the missing birth certificate about him suggests that he may have - James, lawful son of John Moir & this person wearing a red hat, something of my Stoddart grandfather, there owned his own copper smithing business, Isabel Proctice ( spelling ?). like what people in an earlier age wore appears to be a missing body or in Alloa, and it’s likely that his son learned - James Baxter & Janet Moir both of to bed, something like a character from Atwo on the Baxter side of my family. My his trade under his father’s tutelage before a Dickensian novel . I suspect, as he did, this parish recorded their names for grandmother, Jane Baxter (née Robertson), heading off to the Amazon in 1861. that it may very well have been our great proclamation on 4th July and were kept a record of a burial lair that belonged Unfortunately, none of us ever asked grandfather, Charles Baxter. My brother to the Baxter’s in the Old Church, in my grandmother what she knew about, married on 24th July 1818 (especially would have been two years old in 1932, Alloa. The original document is written in not only my great grandparents, but also interesting since it’s another marriage probably as early as we can expect him to copperplate as follows. what she may have known about my great, between a Baxter & a Moir). have had any memory of that occasion. great grandparents, Charles Baxter and - James, lawful son of James Baxter That would, however, have made Charles Alloa 18 July 1850 Margaret Moir. The Parochial Register for & Jane Spyron, born 26th February Baxter aged 97 in 1932 or intriguingly aged Which day Mr. Donaldson Kirk Treas. In the County of Clackmannan (1820 - 1854) and baptised 18th March 1838. 100 if the meeting was as late as 1935, when the name of the Kirk Session of Alloa gave that Jean and I searched nearly 30 years my brother was five years old. Nevertheless, - Jean, lawful daughter of John Moir to Charles Baxter Copper Smith Alloa ago provides us with some help. The Public although my grandfather, Allan Baxter did not & Isabella Proctice (spelling?) reach his 70th birthday, his sister Helen (my and to his heirs residing in the Parish of Register of Proclamations & Marriage, born 19th December 1823, great Aunt Nell) reached 96 and my Aunt Peggy Alloa a right to a burging place in the (beginning 1801), in the Parish of Alloa, baptised 4th January 1829. and Aunt Ella both lived well into their nineties. church yard of Alloa consisting of Two held at that time on microfiche in the So there are some genes for longevity Lairs or Rooms bounded on the South by public library, tells us that: - Janet, lawful daughter of James Moir in the Baxter’s and we could expect a man unpurchased ground West by …? Cobban & Janet Strang, Alloa, born 15th - Charles Baxter and Margaret Moir, both who managed to survive for five years or North by Alex.r Hogg and East by D F September 1835, baptised by Rev. of this parish recorded their names more in the Amazon jungle to have had a Lambert in the site of the Old Church. Peter Mcdowal 4th October 1835. in proclamation of bans 27th July strong constitution. I would like to think it Extracted by Mr Donaldson Kirk Treasurer. was him who my brother met fleetingly in and were married 1st August 1833. - Helen Lennox, lawful daughter of James Baxter & Jane Spyron in Alloa born 8th Stirling, a return to the area where he was Burial lair - The Parochial registers of Clackmannan and baptised 28thFebruary 1836. born. Perhaps my descendants will be able In the 1970’s my wife, Jean, and I with our show us that they had, at least, three to uncover more about these Baxter’s (not three young children spent the best part children; and that my Great Great - Alexander, lawful son of Alexander any old Baxter’s as my Aunts were told) th of a day searching the library and the Old Grandfather had two sisters. Their Moir & Isabella Orr, born 16 June from Clackmannanshire from these few th Church in Alloa to track down this burial three children are recorded as follows: and baptised 10 July 1836. clues I leave for them. lair, to discover more about the Baxter’s. We - Christina, lawful daughter of were back on holiday from Australia, so we Charles Baxter & Margaret Moir in were working within a limited time frame, Alloa, born 22nd November 1833, with Fiona, Niall and Craig, still youngsters baptised 11th January 1834. in tow. We did in the end find the adjoining lairs, Cobban, Hogg, and Lambert which lie - Charles, lawful son of Charles Baxter & very close to a very ancient and crumbling Margaret Moir in Cambus, born 24th Chapel. However, there was no headstone February and baptised 22nd March 1835. and no indication whatsoever that any - Jane, lawful daughter of Charles Baxter of the Baxter’s are buried there. In fact, it & Margaret Moir in Tullibody, born 1st almost appeared as if the neighbouring September, baptised 23rd October 1836. TH lairs had all but squeezed my ancestors’ SATURDAY 6 JULY 2019 place of rest out of existence. If indeed Succeeding generations Jefferson Park some of the Baxter’s are buried there, they Charles, Christina, Margaret and Jane were New England Highway, Aberdeen NSW are certainly in a place of some historical all names carried through to succeeding EXPERIENCE THE VIBRANT ESSENCE OF significance and in very good company. generations. These same parochial SCOTLAND IN THE UPPER HUNTER VALLEY Not only were there some very ancient registers show a number of Baxter’s and Bookings and information Scone Visitors Centre 02 65401300 headstones with the skull and crossbones, Moirs, some of whom were possibly (or www.aberdeenhighlandgames.com typical of 17th century graveyards in very probably) related to my great great Scotland, but there were also the remains grandparents. We could dare to extrapolate of the Earl of Mar, close by. from the details of their marriages and

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By: Lady Fiona Lady MacGregor’s Scotland MacGregor Lady MacGregor of MacGregor – otherwise known as British broadcaster Fiona Armstrong. Fiona is currently news reading for the BBC, but she also leaves the studio to report on all matters Scottish. Fiona lives in Scotland with her husband, Chief of Clan MacGregor, Sir Malcolm MacGregor of MacGregor, and is also an active member of , so their lives are interwoven with all things tartan. The couple have moved from the borderlands to the lowlands, home is now a white tower house between Perth and Dundee, although filming and writing takes Fiona all over Scotland.

Neil Armstrong It makes us move more slowly. the cuddly creature you might imagine. I cannot sit about on steps because We can relax and appreciate what is For the red squirrel is known for being I have work to do. Fifty years ago, in around us. Not least the bird feeding unsociable - and even aggressive. And it is 1969, the descendant of a Scottish station opposite the kitchen window. not alone in its moods. reiver became the first man to set foot on the moon. Three years after his Curiously canny Dogs epic journey the American astronaut The chief gave it to me one Christmas This month my neighbour shows me the came to Scotland. Neil Armstrong and it is a big hit with the local wildlife. cuts on her leg where her normally placid went to Edinburgh and he also visited Not least the pheasants – one of whom black cockerel decided to dig his spurs in. Coigach, Mackenzie country. Photo: Sir Malcolm MacGregor. the borderlands which is where his is proving to be no bird brain. She has After attacking her he went on to chase a ancestors hail from. realised – and yes, it is a female that has lady walker and her dog down the lane. Armstrong was made a Freeman of worked this out – that if she flies to the Then he had a go at the postman. I suppose am told May is a good time for the town of Langholm and his wife Janet top, she can shake the thing so that the all animals guard their ground to some photographic light. And so, the chief was presented with a shawl made from a seed falls out of the holders and onto the extent. The hippopotamus is said to be packs his cameras and travels up cloth created to mark that amazing space ground. Which then allows her squawking the most territorial creature in the world. to the Highlands. He is in search of achievement. It was called the ‘Lunar family and friends to rush in and gobble And he or she is followed by the Tasmanian Idramatic landscapes. And he will certainly Tartan’ and and ties were fashioned up the spilled grain. It is a neat trick. And Devil and the saltwater crocodile. find no shortage of those on the north- from it. And now the man who designed one from a species not normally known for Happily, there are not too many of those west coast. Up there is a treasure chest of it is recreating it to mark the anniversary its common sense. around in Scotland. But there are dogs. views. From mountains, to lochs, to the of the moon landing. We are making If the pheasants are nicely daffy, then Around 640 thousand of them at the last sea. Above is one picture he took… a film about it, so watch this space for the red squirrels are curiously canny. count. Including two at this abode. When a The MacGregor’s absence leaves more detail on this space tartan… They watch and wait on branches. Sizing delivery van or a visitor comes to the front me home alone. Well, not quite alone: In the meantime, the weather is things up before springing in to lift the lid door the MacNaughties are off. Barking and I do have the MacNaughties and they amazing. Far too warm for a kilt. on the nut feeder. Perhaps it is the breeding hollering. Champing at the bit. It is a right are good company. The terrier is not Scotland is hot. Twenty-four degrees season and they are extra hungry. But in old racket and those outside must imagine phased by any human coming or going. in Glasgow. That’s a temperature in the the past few days they have been very there is at the very least a large Scottish But the cocker spaniel is an old boy and seventies, for the old-fashioned among much in evidence. Chasing each other up Deer Hound waiting to pounce. Only to sits patiently on the step waiting for his us. It cannot last, of course. Come summer trees. Chattering noisily at dawn and dusk. find that all that noise is coming from master to return. To add to his woes, proper and we will no doubt be wearing Sadly, red squirrels are becoming a a tufty wee terrier and a-soft-as-butter poor Barra snaps at a buzzing insect. wellies and brandishing brollies. Such is rare sight in Scotland. They are colourful spaniel. Their bark is definitely worse than Dog versus wasp. You can imagine who the mystery that is the Scottish weather. and cute, and we ooh and aah when they their bite. And when the chief returns from comes off the worst… Yet a touch of heat warms our bones. put in an appearance. Yet this is not quite his travels they just wag their tails. Unmasked – Revealing a new portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie portrait may not simply reflect a physical portrait is the only opportunity we have likeness of a person but also their politics, of coming face to face with a true likeness allegiances, wealth or even the image of of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Hew Morrison what a King should look like. With this said – “Working on this project has been a in mind, can we really be sure that these great opportunity to recreate the face of a portraits are a true likeness of the Prince? highly significant individual from Scottish history. As the work progressed, what was revealed was the face of a curious, strong, Prince Charles Edward Stuart’s but heavily burdened character.” image has appeared on The portrait is now on display in the Jacobite Gallery at the Inverness Museum everything from oil painting to and Art Gallery. For further details see: www.highlifehighland.com/inverness- shortbread tins but there are museum-and-art-gallery Prince Charles Edward The forensic facial depiction of only a handful of portraits which Stuart’s death mask. Prince Charles Edward Stuart. he was known to have sat for. igh Life Highland and forensic photograph these collections and engage artist Hew Morrison have the public with them through activities collaborated to create a new and new interpretation. A true likeness of Bonnie digital portrait of Prince Charles Prince Charles Edward Stuart’s image Prince Charlie HEdward Stuart. Using the Prince’s death has appeared on everything from oil Hew Morrison has worked on many mask held in the collection at Inverness painting to shortbread tins but there are high profile forensic reconstructions Museum and Art Gallery, Hew used his only a handful of portraits which he was for museums across the country. skills in forensic art to create the striking known to have sat for. Artists of the time More familiar with using human skulls new portrait. The portrait is an outcome often sought to flatter and produced to recreate faces, Hew has used the death of a larger project called Symbolism, portraits that conformed to ideals of mask of the Prince held in the museum Secrecy and Scottish Identity: Discovering contemporary beauty, a precursor to collection and the latest techniques the Highland Decorative Arts and Jacobite today’s photo filters, and the use of in forensic art to create a striking new Collections at Inverness Museum & Art imagery as a propaganda tool to promote portrait of the Prince. Believed to be the Gallery. Funded by the Esmee Fairbairn the Stuart claim to the throne sees a first time a museum object such as the Collections Fund, the projects aims myriad of symbolism and hidden meaning death mask has been used to create a The waistcoat of Bonnie Prince Charlie. to research, conserve, catalogue and conveyed in every aspect of portraiture, a facial reconstruction we believe this new

Page 12 • The Scottish Banner • June 2019 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Lost Tomb of Robert the Bruce finds its final resting place at Dunfermline Abbey A 3D reconstruction of the tomb of Robert the Bruce has gone on display at Dunfermline Abbey Church.

Dr Iain Fraser, Archives Manager at HES, said “I am delighted to see the model of the Lost Tomb of Robert the Bruce installed here in Dunfermline Abbey Parish Church. This fulfils a project that started six years ago – among the first of its kind in Scotland to use cutting edge 3D scanning. The project would have been impossible Close-up shots of 6 fragments of without the active and willing contribution the tomb of Robert the Bruce. of a wide range of partners and as a result, the public can now see what Robert the Reverend Maryann Rennie, Minister Bruce’s tomb would have looked like, at Dunfermline Abbey Church said “It alongside his final resting place.” is exciting for the congregation here to receive the model of the Lost Tomb of A large effigy of Bruce lies horizontally on top of the tomb, which is intricately Burial cask of Robert the Bruce Robert the Bruce. It allows those visiting detailed with 8 carved figures standing under arches. On his death Bruce’s heart was removed to connect the 19th century brass plaque so that it might posthumously be taken to the more ancient burial cask of Robert 3D reconstruction of the tomb at a number of venues across the to the Holy Land, it is buried at Melrose the Bruce. We hope those visiting also of Robert the Bruce is to go on country, and will now be permanently Abbey, another HES property in care. experience why this site was important display at Dunfermline Abbey housed at Dunfermline Abbey Church. His tomb was destroyed during the to Robert the Bruce and to the many Church. Alex Paterson, Chief (along with all the other pilgrims who have travelled here looking AExecutive of Historic Environment Among the first of its kind in Scotland Royal tombs in the Abbey). Fragments for a sense of peace and rest.” Scotland (HES), presented the half- 3D laser scanning was used to record of it along with Bruce’s remains were scale model of the lost tomb at an all 19 known surviving fragments of the discovered in 1817 and excavated in 1818. event in the Abbey Church recently. tomb. This enabled them to be 3D printed The skeletal remains were reinterred The Lost Tomb of Robert the Bruce, a and used by an advisory board of experts beneath Dunfermline Abbey Church collaborative project between HES’s as the basis for academic study and and the grave sealed with a thick layer predecessor bodies and the Centre reconstruction. Their work, largely based of molten bitumen to protect it from for Digital Documentation and on the forms of contemporary French royal interference. The existing fragments of the Visualisation (CDDV) to recreate the tombs that have survived, then informed tomb are held with National Museums Part of a 3D reconstruction of tomb from fragments, started in 2013. the creation of a half-scale 3D digital Scotland, Abbotsford House, Hunterian Robert the Bruce tomb. The reconstruction was then exhibited model used as the exhibition piece. Museum and Dunfermline Museum. Did you know? The Isle of Skye

• Skye is the largest and most northerly • The island has been occupied since the island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Mesolithic period and has a colourful • More than 9000 people live there, and history. It was ruled by the Norse for 400 half of the people speak Gaelic. years, then dominated by Clan MacLeod • The main settlement is Portree, known and . The for its picturesque harbour, which has a of the 19th century caused a decline in the population of nearly 2000. population from over 20,000 to around 9,200 in the early 21st century. The population has • Skye is the second-largest island in Scotland. risen 4% from the census of 1991. • The Gaelic name for the “Isle of Skye” is • Skye is almost 50 miles (80 km) long and is An t-Eilean Sgitheanach (or Sgiathanach, now linked to the mainland by a road bridge. a more recent and less common spelling). The meaning of this name is unknown. • The main industries are tourism, agriculture, fishing and whisky-distilling. • The Cuillin, or the Black Cuillin, is a rocky mountain range that dominates • The island is renowned for its spectacular the Isle of Skye’s dynamic landscape. The scenery, vibrant culture and heritage, and highest point, Sgurr Alasdair, looms at its abundant wildlife, including the Golden 3,255 feet above sea level. Eagle, Red Deer and Atlantic Salmon.

The Scottish Banner • June 2019 • Page 13 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Aberdeen Highland Games coming to the Upper Hunter July 6th

The event, always held on the 1st Manhood stones, Sheaf Toss and the Saturday in July each year, sees people Caber toss, an event not to be missed. travel from all parts of Australia to The Committee, late last year, witness this unique event, held at registered the new Upper Hunter Aberdeen in the Upper Hunter Valley Tartan. This has produced a great deal of NSW. The event is run as a typical of interest in the local community Highland Gathering where the crowds as well as from other areas. Products can expect to see the massed pipes & including, scarves, shawls, rugs, ties drums, the Kilted Warriors with their as well as other Games merchandise feats of strength, highland and country will be available on the ground on dancing, novelty events for the kids and the day. Our kilt maker will be on the the numerous stalls. These stalls include ground and will be able to take any various clan societies, those with various orders for those looking for a kilt in Scottish and Celtic products as well as the new tartan as well as to supply the a variety of food outlets. We have some accessories to go with it. fourteen pipe bands booked in for the There are two events following the day; it will be a great spectacle. Games. The traditional Ceilidh with meal, dancing and other entertainment his year is a big year for the Upper Hunter Tartan will be held in Scone at the high school Committee of the Aberdeen Of note this year will be the Kilted MPC with tickets for this online. There Highland Games, celebrating the Warriors who will be attempting to break will also be a Quintet Competition 20th anniversary of the Games the Australian record of lifting a weight for pipe bands and this will be run at Twith big crowds anticipated. of 225kg. They will also have the usual the Aberdeen RSL Club, not far from the ground. This event is run under the banner of the NSW Pipe Band Association with the City of Newcastle RSL Pipe Band acting as hosts. For further details or entries contact the PBA or the pipe band. Get your tickets early by visiting the web site www.aberdeenhighlandgames.com to save the line up on the day. You also save money by doing this. For further details of the day see www.aberdeenhighlandgames. com or go to the Games Facebook page. For any general enquiries either go to the Scone Visitor Information & Horse Centre or email [email protected] Being Scottish is Bags of Fun! Most bag styles also includes a handy inside key/coin zip pouch.

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The stunning Spiggie Beach on Shetland. Bands on parade in Townsville. Dreamy beaches Anyone looking to spend more time ome along to the 6th Annual into Cotters Market to watch non-stop snoozing than building sandcastles can visit Townsville Tartan Day - the day the Scottish entertainment while you patronise the picturesque Shandwick Bay, located Scots of Townsville and everyone the stalls. Get your vantage point in Flinders between the villages of Shandwick and who loves all things Scottish Street by about 10.15am for the Clan Balintore in Scotland’s Highlands. Head to Ccome together for a free community event Parade that moves off at 10.30am featuring the harbour in Balintore to the north and in conjunction with the Cotters Market. members of local and visiting pipe bands spot the town’s Mermaid of the North statue. Tartan Day is an International event that and the largest display of Clan Banners More lazy days can be spent lying on a celebrates the lifting of the English ban that in Australia. Register in advance to join Luskentyre beach on the Isle of Harris. deck chair at Spiggie Beach at Scousburgh prevented the wearing of tartan from 1746 members of your clan in the Clan Parade! in Shetland. Perhaps not as well as well- to 1782. The Honoured Clan for 2019 is Clan Send a Facebook message, phone Marie on known as some other Scottish beaches, MacNicol and we are proud to announce 0413 456 542 or email [email protected] to s Scotland readies for the it is still a popular spot for taking scenic that ‘Scorrybreac’, John Nicolson, the Chief be put on the Townsville Scottish Community Inc. upcoming summer season the pictures, with views to Rerwick Bay. of Clan MacNicol, will be in attendance. mailing list or for further details. country has so much to offer. In the past, Spiggie beach was famous Be early so you can get parking without From history, castles and stunning for being lined with Yoals – salted fish was missing the spectacle of the pipe bands Ascenery your next visit is sure to be full of an essential part of the Shetland diet. coming across Victoria Bridge. great experiences. Scotland is also blessed with some incredible beaches across its Pawsome shores Largest display of Clan coastlines and islands. So, if heading to Banners in Australia Scotland this summer get your toes in the This event is growing each year and sand and hear the seabirds call. attracted approximately 12,000 people in It’s not just surfers who love a beach 2018. The day opens with the massed pipe in Scotland: From the family-friendly bands marching over Victoria Bridge from beaches at East Lothian and Dumfries Palmer Street to Ogden Street at 9.00am and Galloway; to a dog’s dream of where there will be a Kirkin’ of the Tartans Edinburgh’s Portobello Beach. running up and down Luss beach in Loch (a blessing ceremony) on the steps of Brad Bowie of Valhalla Strength, Lomond or the Portobello seafront in Victoria Bridge. Bring your own tartan to warming up with the 95Kg stone. Edinburgh; to lazy picnics on the shores Pups will have great fun splashing around take part in this blessing. Then move back in Shetland or Shandwick Bay in the on the beach at Luss in Loch Lomond, with Highlands; there’s something for all on their owners having plenty of dog-friendly Scotland’s beaches. cafes close by to choose from, including With Scotland experiencing its hottest the Coach House Coffee Shop. Easter ever in 2019, and this summer set to All the savvy dogs in Edinburgh know to bring even warmer days, make the most of head to the city’s Portobello Beach for a great it and head to Scotland’s coasts and waters. run about, with two miles of sand to sniff and SCOTTISH Here is just a pick of what’s on offer (and explore. With spectacular views off towards don’t forget your sun tan lotion). Fife, and plenty of restaurants and bars to ACCESSORIES SHOPPE visit, human friends will also be kept happy. For families It might be a favourite beauty spot for KILT HIRE humans, but Luskentyre beach is also the perfect spot for four-legged friends with beautiful sands that stretch for miles, and clear blue sea for getting paws wet. Everybody’s gone surfin’

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By: Judy Vickers The Edinburgh Playhouse

The largest theatre in the UK The Playhouse Auditorium. Photo: Rob McDougall. Rob Photo: Auditorium. The Playhouse The Edinburgh Playhouse is the largest theatre in the UK and hosts the top touring musicals from Broadway and the West End. The theatre has welcomed countless famous people and even has its very own famous ghost. The building was inspired by New York’s Roxy Theatre and has been granted Heritage Listing status for more generations to enjoy this icon of Edinburgh, as Judy Vickers explains. Albert In fact, the whole of the city was on high alert, not just the Greenside Place venue, which turns 90 this year. The theatre had been swept and was given the all-clear, and a last check with sniffer dogs was being carried out when a hitch occurred. “I was in the office when someone came in and said: ‘We have an issue with level Laurel and Hardy on the Playhouse roof. 6. The dogs won’t clear the corridor, they are too spooked’,” says Pam. The theatre’s t was 2005 and the great and the good resident ghost, Albert, had struck again. had descended on Scotland for the G8 Luckily for the theatre, someone had the summit. The controversial meeting presence of mind to call up to Edinburgh of world leaders was being held at Castle, which provided some local dogs, IGleneagles, but because the isolated luxury more used to spirits of the past from their The projection room. retreat in Perthshire had been cordoned ancient home, and the corridor was given off by security forces, the focus of many the all-clear – at least of living threats! protests, speeches and performances was Albert was first sighted in the 1950s. Since then there have been numerous Fascinating history in Edinburgh. A variety performance was Following a suspected break-in at the incidents in the cavernous venue – the The legend of Albert is just one part of the due to be held at the Edinburgh Playhouse theatre, the police were called. A constable UK’s largest working non-sporting fascinating history of the theatre, which with many of the celebrities now in investigating the claims met an old man theatre – with its many corridors and dark was built on the site of a medieval jousting town expected to attend. “So as you can in grey overalls on level 6 who told him corners. An invisible orchestra has played ground. The site has also housed a tabernacle imagine security was very tight,” explains he was Albert, the doorman. But when he in the middle of the night, then suddenly and an insane asylum run by nuns but in Pam Aldred, marketing manager of the explained this to the theatre manager of the cut off, people have reported feeling the 1920s, when movie-going fever was at its Playhouse. time, he was told there was no such person. a ghostly hand or finger touch their height, Edinburgh-based company Maguire shoulder, or seeing shadowy figures enter and Lumley commissioned a giant, luxury rooms which then prove to be empty. cinema on the steeply sloping site. Lights have turned off and doors have slammed. But for Pam, Albert is always a friendly presence. “I like to think that Albert is roaming around the corridors The legend of Albert is just backstage, keeping an eye on everything one part of the fascinating and looking after everyone,” she says. history of the theatre, which was built on the site of a medieval jousting ground.

Building started in 1927 to a design by Glasgow architect John Fairweather, said to be partially inspired by the Roxy The Playhouse auditorium in the 1970’s. Theatre in New York. But it was only in

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part of the promotional tour for their favourite in Scotland - the theatre was So, as it heads towards its centenary in filmLaughing Gravy, police had to finally bought by the local council and it ten years, it looks like the Playhouse will be brought in to control the crowds. reopened in 1980 with a charity gala in aid continue to occupy a special place in the The comedy duo made an appearance of the Variety Club of Great Britain. hearts of its audiences. on the stage to thank the audience, During the 1980s, it played host to some Have you seen a performance at the before climbing onto the roof. of the biggest names in rock including Playhouse? Share your story with us But by the early 1970s, cinema audience Elton John, Bruce Springsteen and The by email, post, social media or at: numbers were in freefall, particularly Rolling Stones. “It’s a big theatre but it’s www.scottishbanner.com/contact-us hitting the Playhouse with its vast seating. small in comparison with some stadiums The James Bond movie Live and Let Die so artists like it as there is an intimate was the last film to be screened in 1973 feel to it,” explains Pam. A Royal Gala and the cinema then closed. performance in 1985 saw the Queen, Demolition was mooted but former Prince Philp and Princess Anne visit. employees Gordon Lucas and Larry Since 2010, it has been owned by McGuire set up the Playhouse Preservation international arts group The Ambassador Action Group and began a campaign to Theatre Group and continues to play host to save the theatre. They collected 15,000 the world’s biggest musicals such as Wicked, signatures for a petition and the theatre Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables – was made a category B listed building, The Lion King returns next year. protecting it from being bulldozed. 1929 that the building was ready to be opened, after work to correct subsidence A special place in the meant construction overran by a year and hearts of its audiences nearly bankrupted the company. But a future use still needed to be found. Its frontage, impressive though it is, In 1975 the Edinburgh Playhouse Society hides the cavernous auditorium behind – it was formed with the idea of turning the seats more than 3000 – and the slope it sits theatre into a high-end performing arts on means the grand circle is entered from space for ballet and opera. After years of street level, with stairs down to the stalls. campaigning and more petitions – and Even though it was built as a cinema, it was support from the likes of comedian Billy still constructed originally with a large stage Connolly who said the stage was his and several dressing rooms – which made its later conversion to a theatre easier. The first film to be screened was The Doctor’s Secretan adaptation of JM Barrie’s short play Half an Hourand over the next 40-plus years the cinema played host to the biggest movies of the day – and sometimes their stars too, including Marlene Dietrich and Yul Brynner. When The Playhouse in 1929. Laurel and Hardy visited Edinburgh as

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be reflected in sows’ facial expressions. being announced this month and continued Images are then processed at UWE investment in key events, Bristol’s Centre for Machine Vision, where there are more and more reasons for people various state-of-the-art machine learning to come to the Scottish Borders.” techniques are being developed to Alistair Moffat of the Tapestry Trustees automatically identify different emotions “The Great Tapestry of Scotland is an object conveyed by particular facial expressions. not only of great beauty and power, it will After validating these techniques, the team also act as an engine for renewal. As large- will develop the technology for on-farm scale retail moves to the periphery of towns use with commercial partners where and cities, it is magnetic cultural attractions individual sows in large herds will be like the Tapestry that will bring back life monitored continuously. to the centres of these beautiful places. Dr Emma Baxter from SRUC said: “Early The huge success of the V&A in Dundee, UK scientific first for ancient identification of pig health issues gives attracting 500,000 visitors in six months, farmers the potential to improve animal doubling estimates, is only the latest wellbeing by tackling any problems quickly example of how well this strategy works.” Caledonian pine forest and implementing tailored treatment for The uniqueness of Beinn Eighe’s of the charges at the likes of Edinburgh individuals. This will reduce production costs 14th century Kirkwall Castle ancient Caledonian pine forest has been Waverley and Glasgow Central. by preventing impact of health issues on walls unearthed during recognised with the establishment of Now following pressure from local performance. By focussing on the pig’s face, roadworks in the National Nature Reserve (NNR) as politicians, ScotRail will follow suit with we hope to deliver a truly animal-centric the UK’s first area designated for genetic its stations including Aberdeen, Elgin, welfare assessment technique, where the conservation. Beinn Eighe was the UK’s Stonehaven and Inverness as well as many animal can ‘tell’ us how it feels about its own first NNR, and now it is hailed as a genetic more across Scotland. Most of these toilets individual experiences and environment. This first. The move reinforces the special operate with an automatic security barrier, allows insight into both short-term emotional nature of the pines at the Wester Ross which lifts after 20 pence is paid into a reactions and long-term individual ‘moods’ of reserve and the importance of protecting machine allowing access to the facilities. animals under our care.” them for future generations. Some of the At Network Rail stations charges can The remains of the castle wall remarkable specimens at Beinn Eighe are range from 30p to 50p which include the Exciting future ahead as Galashiels unearthed in Castle Street, Kirkwall. Photo: ORCA Archaeology. more than 350 years old, and the genetic likes of King’s Cross, Euston, Liverpool regeneration gets underway composition of the pinewood has been Street, Paddington and Waterloo – all in shown to be truly distinct. Research has London – as well as Liverpool Lime Street, A team from ORCA Archaeology unearthed shown that the Beinn Eighe trees colonised Leeds, Manchester Piccadilly and Glasgow sections of wall and cobbled surface this via a different route from pines in other and Edinburgh in Scotland. Smaller stations week while undertaking a watching brief for parts of Scotland after the last ice-age, and managed by local train operating companies an Orkney Islands Council infrastructure recent scientific work makes it clear that may still charge for the use of facilities. project in the centre of Kirkwall. To date, these pines have a unique genetic diversity. three walls in total have been uncovered The Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Facial recognition technology during the works. One substantial wall reserve is managed to conserve this special aims to detect emotional set back from the road junction is built woodland, and now this work has been state in Scottish pigs using immense stone blocks and lime formally recognised with the registration The next exciting development in the mortar indicating that it is part of the now of the site as a Gene Conservation regeneration of Galashiels is a step closer demolished fourteenth-century Kirkwall Unit with the European Forest Genetic as work gets set to start on creating the Castle. The castle itself was built without Resources Programme (EUFORGEN). Great Tapestry of Scotland visitor attraction, royal consent in the late fourteenth century Gene Conservation Units have been set which tells the story of Scotland through by Earl Henry Sinclair while Orkney was still up elsewhere in Europe, but this this step one of the world’s largest tapestries created ruled by Scandinavian kings and was said to reflects a major breakthrough for genetic by 1,000 people from across the country. be one of the strongest castles in the realm. conservation of wild species in the UK. Work is expected to start in the coming In the early seventeenth century the castle This new status for the NNR is a vitally weeks at the town centre site, which will be saw action when it was defended by the important contribution to the care of the transformed with the creation of the new rebellious Stewart Earls against the Scottish core of Scotland. Genetic State-of-the-art facial recognition building. It has been designed by one of King’s forces under the Earl of Caithness. diversity is essential for resilience to technology is being used in an attempt to Scotland’s leading architectural practices, The structure was so strong that cannon pressures such as climate change and tree detect different emotional states in pigs. and will kickstart a new future for Galashiels, balls were said to “split like wooden golf diseases, allowing populations to adapt Animal behaviourists from Scotland’s alongside a number of other projects which balls against the walls”. as conditions change. The intention is Rural College (SRUC) in Edinburgh have will provide a host of benefits for the town Following the siege, an order was given that the designation of the Beinn Eighe teamed up with machine vision experts and the Scottish Borders. These include the by the Scottish King James VI to dismantle pinewood will act as a beacon for the UK, at the University of the West of England new town trail which will include a sculpture the castle in 1615 so that it could not be leading the way for gene conservation (UWE Bristol) for the study, which it is dedicated to Galashiels sweet seller Robert used again as a centre of rebellion. units to be established for all tree species. hoped will lead to a tool that can monitor Coltart who wrote the world-famous This process of destruction was completed individual animals’ faces and alert farmers children’s lullaby Coulter’s Candy (Ali Bali in 1865 when the remaining structure was Train stations across Scotland to any health and welfare problems. Pigs Bee). Significant improvements to the town demolished to make way for Castle Street. scrap toilet charges are highly expressive and SRUC research centre are currently being taken forward There are now no visible signs of this has previously shown they can signal their in partnership with community groups, immense fortification to be seen above intentions to other pigs using different and a masterplan which aims to transform ground, although previous building works facial expressions. There is also evidence Galashiels and encourage investment in the in the 1980s revealed massive stone walls of different expressions when they are wider Borders economy is being progressed. close to the present site which most likely in pain or under stress. At SRUC’s Pig Councillor Mark Rowley, Executive were the foundations of the castle. Research Centre in Midlothian, scientists Member for Business and Economic While the ORCA Archaeology team are capturing 3D and 2D facial images Development said: “This is a hugely exciting continues to dig the fascinating and of the breeding sow population under time for Galashiels and the Scottish Borders. substantial finds, the road project continues. various, typical commercial situations that Heritage and culture experts predict the Pete Higgins, Senior Project Manager ORCA are likely to result in different emotional centre will attract over 50,000 people to Archaeology commented, “ This is an area Rail commuters at major train stations states. For example, sows can experience Galashiels each year once opened, as of the city that we know was the site of the across Scotland and the UK will no longer lameness and could show different facial well as create 16 new jobs at the facility. castle and it is exciting to see the remains have to ‘spend a penny’ to go to the loo – expressions relating to pain before and The Tapestry is the first stage of a wider of the possible curtain wall and part of the after it was announced that toilet charges after being given pain relief. masterplan to regenerate Galashiels, fourteenth-century Kirkwall Castle in situ.” will be phased out. ScotRail has confirmed Detecting positive emotional state which is starting to see encouraging The whole site will be recorded, added to it is keen to scrap pay as you use toilets at is more novel but sows are highly food developments. With the Jim Clark Museum the historical archive and covered over again all the stations it operates. While Network motivated and appear calm and content set to open this year, a £1.3million Hawick so that the infrastructure works can progress Rail recently took the decision to get rid when satiated. They hope this mood could Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme without delay.

Page 18 • The Scottish Banner • June 2019 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Victorian-era water pioneer pictures inspiring £12.5m Katrine Aqueduct Refurbishment “The boom in shipbuilding that helped Glasgow ‘flourish’ was able to happen only because of the two amazing aqueducts that bring water from Loch Katrine to the two reservoirs at Milngavie and the water treatment works there. It’s remarkable to think that the first aqueduct was so successful, and Glasgow grew so quickly, that within 30 years they had to repeat the process and build a second aqueduct to double the output. These pictures are an important part of that story and I’m works before it is distributed to delighted we were able to save them.” customers across a large swathe of Glasgow and west central Scotland. Legacy of those Victorian engineers The first aqueduct includes tunnels In the construction of the second through mountainous terrain in the aqueduct, the engineers were able to shadow of and bridges over take a more direct line because they had the valleys. The second aqueduct was available improved boring and blasting constructed to accommodate the rapid equipment. When the second aqueduct expansion of Glasgow in the late 19th was constructed, the pneumatic drill and century. The two are as much as six miles gelignite were available and progress apart on some stretches. was much more rapid than during the first aqueduct, increasing from 35 to 44 Historical value yards per month. The possession of more Steven Walker, a leakage field technician efficient plant enabled the engineers, by forgotten treasure trove of Water experts with decades of experience with Scottish Water who discovered tunnelling, to take a straighter line through Victorian photographs showing of working on the local water network, the photographs with a colleague, said: the hills in the construction of the second the construction of parts of one of were recovered from a skip along with “I found these fragile glass slides from aqueduct. This meant only eight bridges Scotland’s most important pieces some books and drawings when the utility the construction of mainly the second were required on the second aqueduct Aof infrastructure has been unearthed. was closing one of its offices. aqueduct in a skip when we were moving compared with 22 on the first. The Katrine Aqueduct, which takes water to new offices. I suspected they were of Mr Jon Rhodes, the refurbishment to treatment works that supply 1.3 million Remarkable images interest but their true historical value project manager, said: “We have just people in Glasgow and west central They include remarkable images was only confirmed when a colleague started this major project to refurbish Scotland, was built in the Victorian era to of pioneers boring through rocky who works for us in the Loch Katrine part of the aqueduct and the discovery of help transform the health of citizens and mountainsides with drills during the area analysed them. The pictures give a these spectacular old images will be an continues in full use to this day. construction of the 23.5 mile-long fascinating insight into the construction inspiration to my 50-strong project team As modern-day engineers are starting second aqueduct which began in 1885 of the second aqueduct and some of to ensure our 21st century work builds on a multi-million pound refurbishment and was completed in 1901 to increase the methods used which might appear the legacy of those Victorian engineers project on part of the aqueduct, the capacity and meet demand as the archaic, and even dangerous, to us now and enables the aqueduct to perform to its recently-discovered photos provide a population of Glasgow burgeoned to but were the ‘new technology’ of the optimum for many years to come.” fascinating insight into the mega-structure more than one million. day at that time. I like to think that the The entire Katrine Aqueduct scheme which was officially opened by Queen The aqueduct scheme, comprising heart of Glasgow is not George Square or cost £3.2m to build which would be about Victoria almost 160 years ago in October the two aqueducts, takes water by somewhere else in the city centre but 8.5 £320m in today’s prices, and he current 1859. The glass photograph slides, which gravity from Loch Katrine to the miles to the north in Milngavie where the refurbishment project on the Katrine have not been seen before by Scottish Milngavie and Balmore water treatment two aqueducts end. Aqueduct is expected to be completed in 2020.

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Clan Donnachaidh Clan Cumming Society Calling the Clans Society of New South Wales Inc., of the Society of New South Welcome to our “Clansified”listing of Australia United States Wales Inc., Australia Scottish Clans, Societies and Clubs. Duncan Robertson Reid Duncan Robertson Reid If you would like to add your Clan please People who bear any of the above names or names of any of the www.clancumming.us PeopleSepts of whothe Clan bear (see advertiany ofsement the fromabove CA namesUSA) are invite d to join with us in our activities to promote Clan Donnachaidh, contact our office for full details. Our [email protected] or“The other Children of Duncan”names by of participating Clan Donnachaidh in the various activitie s address and phone numbers are located “Theconducted Children by Scottish of Duncan”Societies. are invited to For information & membership application, contact on page 2. If you are contacting your Clan joinGordon in our Robertso activitiesn by participating in the c/o G. Allen Cummings 58/157 Marconi Rd. Bonnells Bay NSW 2264 be sure to tell them you saw them in the Scottish Gatherings held in NSW. PO Box 6888 Scottish Banner and please support these For information and membership application, Ocean Isle Beach, NC 28469-6888 contact Gordon Robertson great community organisations. 58/157 Marconi Rd. Bonnells Bay NSW 2264

CLAN DONNACHAIDH SOCIETY Clan Baird Society Worldwide Membership invited to all who share the Sept names: Society Membership is open to those descended Duncan, Robertson, Reid, etc. Society in from Baird, Barde, Bard, Beard, Beaird, Brd, UK: London & Southern Counties * Rannoch & Highlands of Australia Bayard, Bardt, Barth and Biard or varied Australia Inc. Canada: Ontario * Western Canada spellings of the name of Scottish origin. Australia: New South Wales * Victoria * Queensland * Western Australia Invites all Frasers CHEIF: Grant Davidson of Davidston cordially invites to New Zealand: New Zealand and Fraser In addition to the Society newsletter and the opportunity membership all who bear one of the Clan Names, and all who can Europe: Spain to join our clan society. to associate with fellow clansman members may trace their descent from an ancestor bearing one of these Names: Africa: South Africa query the Society geneologist. For information write: Davidson; Davison; Dawson; Davis; Davie; Davey; Davy; Day; USA: Arizona * Carolinas * Florida * Gulf Coast * Mid-Atlantic * New All members receive a copy of our quarterly Dye;Dyson; Dawson; Dea; Dean; Deane; Deas; Deason; Dees; Mexico * Mid-West * Northeast * Northern California * Pacific Northwest * newsletter “Strawberry Leaves” Dr. Debra J. Baird, President Rocky Mountains * South * Southern California * Texas * Upper Mid-West 3491 County Road 3459, Haleyville, AL 35565 Dee; Dey; Daw; Dow; Dhai; Kay; Keay; Key; Keys; MacDade; Membership enquiries to Don Chitts Email: [email protected] MacDaid; MacDavid; MacDavett; MacDagnie; MacDagny; Visit our website to learn more about Clan Donnachaidh, our Ph: (03) 9754 5120 [email protected] MacDhai; McKeddie. In addition we welcome into membership all History & Traditions, the Clan Museum in Scotland, the DNA Regional Directors for Australia who have a family association with the Clan Davidson. Project, the new Struan Kirk Appeal, & locate a Branch near you. Website: http://clanfraseraustralia.org David and Patricia Benfell Applications may be made online: www.clandavidson.org.au http://www.donnachaidh.com/ Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/ Email: [email protected] Facebook: The Clan Donnachaidh Society or contact the Hon. Secretary Mr Dennis Hill, J.P, P.O. Box 519 website: www.clanbairdsociety.com Email: [email protected] Pages/Clan-Fraser-Society-of-Australia/ Baulkham Hills NSW 1755 [email protected] 0431 527 662 482236358590288

Clan Bell Clan Donald of Australia The House of North America “under the patronage of the High Association Cordially invites membership inquiries from persons Council of the Chiefs of Clan Donald” Gospatric the Earl Named Bell (all spellings), their descendants and High Commissioner Mr Lachlan Macdonald Eligible blood or marriage, all descendants of Includes name variations such as friends. Computerized Genealogical data base available State Commissioners The Gospatric: Dunbar, Clugston, Corbett, Dundas, Galbreath, Catbreath, Gilbraith etc. to help members in their research. Quarterly Edgar, Grey, Heryng, Home, Knox, Nisbett, Peddie, newsletter published. Tents hosted at major Scottish NSW Mr Lachlan Macdonald games from coast to coast. Qld Mr A. Neil Macdonald Strickland, Washington, Wedderburn and all DNA testing project, members only SA Ms Therese McCutcheon spelling variations of each name. Also all other Your Bell ancestry is important! Vic Mr Norman A Macdonald families who were associated with The Gospatric. databases, Biennial gatherings, Visit our web site: www.clanbell.org WA Ms Pamela McDonald blog, Quarterly journal. Contact our Membership Chairperson: Pauline Bell Chieftain David C. Dunbar 1513 Anterra Drive, Wake Forest, NC 27587 [email protected] 16419 Carlton Vale Ct. Email: [email protected] www.clangalbraith.org CLAN DONALD QUEENSLANDThere is no joy without Clan Donald Tomball, TX 77377-8488

Commissioner: Neil Macdonald Ph: 0412 090990 Email: [email protected] FamilyWeb: of www.clandonaldqld.orgBruce Clan Donald Edmonstone ELIGIBILITY: Those with the name of International,MacDonald Macdonald McDonald Inc. McDonell, Donald, OR of one of the Septs of Clan Family of Bruce International,Donald, Inc., ORthe with only a connection such organization through family lineage. Queensland Clan Society recognized by the heredity chief of the Name of Bruce, The Rt. Hon. Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, is a non-profitThere is no joy without Clan Donald Commissioner: Neil Macdonald Invites membership to anyone of the surname organization established to create kinship amongst its family Ph: 0412 090990 or variations:- Edmiston/e, Edmondston, members and promote interest in the Family of Bruce and Email: [email protected] Edmanson, Edmeston, Edmonson, its history. Membership is open to persons who qualify Edmundson, etc. Chieftain Sir Archibald Web: www.clandonaldqld.org by surname, by decent, or by recognized septs: Carlisle, Edmonstone Bt of Duntreath Carruthers, Crosby, Randolph and Stenhouse. ELIGIBILITY: Those with the name of MacDonald Contact: Mal Edmiston www.clangregor.com Membership inquiries should be directed to: Macdonald McDonald McDonell, Donald, 3 Laguna Ave For membership contact Keith MacGregor Donald E. Bruce Polly A. (Bruce) Tilford, Secretary OR of one of the Septs of Clan Donald, P.O Box 56, Redding Ridge, CT 06876 President 5561 Earl Young Road Kirwan, Qld, 4817 [email protected]. 1051 Eagle Ridge Trail Bloomington, IN 47408 OR with a connection through family lineage. 61 (0)7 4755 4370 Peter Lawrie, Secretary Stillwater, Minnesota 55082 www.familyofbruce.org There is no joy without Clan Donald [email protected] Clan6 The Esplanade,Gregor Broughty Society Ferry, Dundee Australasia DD5 2EL Scotland All MacGregors and Septs of our Clan are Clan Donald, U.S.A., Inc. invited to join one of the oldest Clan Societies Membership is open only to persons of in Scotland Est 1822. If you live in Australia or the blood of Macdonald, however spelled New Zealand, please contact our clan or of the blood of a recognized associate representativeClan in GregorAustralia; family or is related by marriage or legal Clanadoption to either ofDonald these write for more Frank McGregor info and a complete Sept list. Diane Carey-Schmitz ClanSociety Gregor Society U.S.A.1685 Casitas AvenueInc. PO Box 14 Pasadena, CA 91103, NORTH HOBART TAS 7002 Membership is open [email protected] to persons oft the blood Elliot Clan Society, U.S.A. Email:Australasia [email protected] All MacGregors andWeb. Septs www.clangregor.com of our Clan are invited to join Clan Cameron NSW Inc. of Macdonald, however spelled or of the blood Judith M. Elliott-Clan President one of the oldest Clan Societies in Scotland Est 1822. If President: Alistair Cameron of a recognized associate family or is related welcomes membership of all who are you live in Australia“Royal or New is Zealand,my Race please” contact our clan representative in Australia; [email protected] by marriage or legal adoption to either of these connected with this great border family. write for more info and a complete Sept list. Frank McGregor - Society Secretary: Terry Cameron Direct inquires to: Membership-Treasurer PO Box 14 William H. McDaniel Patricia Tennyson Bell North Hobart TAS 7002 [email protected] Email: [email protected] High Commissioner, CDUSA 2288 Casa Grande South Web. www.clangregor.com www.clan-cameron.org.au [email protected] Pasadena, CA 91104 “Royal is my Race”

CLAN DONALD Clan Farquharson American Clan The Clan in VICTORIA Campbell Society Proudly affiliated with Clan Donald Australia, Victorian Scottish Union and Association Australia Gregor Society Scots of Victoria Coordinating Group. Represented at all major Highland gatherings in Victoria. Clan Chief: Captain A.A.C. Farquharson, Of Australia Membership inquiries CLAN DONALD VICTORIA MC of Invercauld Est 1909 welcomed from MacGregors The Society exists for the benefit of all its President: Mr Norman A. Macdonald Membership inquiries are invited from descendants of all spellings and Septs Contact: [email protected] members. All Campbells or descendants of of Farquharson and descendants of Sept family Gregor Grier MacAdams MacNish Magruder Campbells and members of Clan Septs are Formed in 1934, with membership from many MacDonald, McDonald and names. Please contact the association by mail to: Macdonald families living in Victoria. Membership available, with dance classes McGehee Gregory King Peter Fletcher Gregg Lecky Black and many others most welcome to join the Society. for Scottish Country Dance most Friday evenings in Gardenvale. The Secretary: Clan Farquharson For information on State Branches contact the CLAN MACDONALD YARRAVILLE Association Australia Contacting our registrar, Jeanne P. Lehr 11 Ballas Crt. National Secretary, Margaret Vallance Hon Chief: Mrs Christina Milne Wilson PO Box 585 St. Louis, MO 63131-3038 Email: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] Springwood, NSW 2777 www.clan-campbell.org.au A hereditary clan society formed by the children of Norman Hume Macdonald Phone: 314-432-2842, [email protected] and Johan McKenzie Macdonald (nee Munro) who departed Scotland in 1854. or by Email to: [email protected] website: www.acgsus.org

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Clan Hamilton SOCIETY Society of Australia Hamiltons and those of Hamilton descent and New Zealand Clan MacLaren Clan MacNeil are cordially invited to join the society. Clan Chief: Hon Alexander John Leslie MacLaren MacLaurin Lawrence Lawson Low[e] Association of America Inquiries to be sent to: Enquiries invited from Leslies around the world, Low[e]ry Law[e] Patterson MacPatrick MacRory Invites all MacNeils, regardless of as well as the Septs of Clan Leslie: Sheri Lambert, Treasurer Abernethy, Bartholomew, Cairney, Lang, Mark A. McLaren, President surname spelling, some of which are listed: P.O. Box 5399 Moore etc in all their spellings. 611 Indian Home Rd. McNeill MacNeil MacNeal MacNiel, McNeely, Neal, Contact: J Barrie Leslie Neilson and O’neill to join us in preserving our heritage. Vernon Hills, IL 60061 Contact: Malcolm W. Leslie D.Ua. Danville, CA 94526 117/30343 Rosedal Springe RStreet.d. Contact: Rhonwyn Darby visit our website: Gordon, NSW, 2072, Australia. Kearney’s Spring, Qld, 4350, Australia. (925) 838-8175 McNeill VP, Membership, PO. Box 230093, Montgomery www.clanhamilton.org Phone:Phone: +61 +61 2 7 46359418 83582262 [email protected]@ozemail.com.au www.clanleslie.org• www.clanleslie.org [email protected] AL 36123-0693. (334) 834-0612 Email [email protected]

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ClanNorth MacDougall America, Society Inc. of North America, Inc. Valerie McDougall Valerie McDougall Clan MacLellan VP Membership MacDougall VP Membership MacDowall MacDougall 505-470 Scenic Drive, London, ON MacDowall John B. McClellan, Jr. April Rich N5Z 3B2 N5Z 3B2 28 Oxbow Drive Email: [email protected] Home page: www.macdougall.org Treasurer Email: [email protected]: www.facebook.com/clanmacdougall Home page: www.macdougall.org

Willimantic, CT 06226 Facebook: www.facebook.com/clanmacdougall 6409 Knollwood Drive Names Associated with Clan MacDougall of Argyll Clan MacNicol [email protected] and Clan MacDowall of Galloway McKinney, TX NamesCoul AssociatedMacCoul with Clan MacDougallMacoual of Argyll The American Branch of the First Family of Scotland welcomes Conacherand ClanMacConacher MacDowall of Galloway 75070-6032 Chief: John MacNeacail Coyle MacCoyle inquires from descendants of: Hay(s); Haye(s); Hayne(s); Hey(s); CoulDole MacCoulMacDole MacoualMacDill Email: [email protected] Doual MacDoual McDougal of MacNeacail and Scorrybreac Alderston; Armll;Ayer(s); Constable; Con(n); De La Haye; Delgatie; DougalConacher MacDougalMacConacherl MacDougald CoyleDougle MacCoyleMcdougle McDougald Delgatie; D’ Ay(e); Dellah’aY; Errol(l); Garrad; Garrow; Gifford; Dugal MacDugal MacDugle Invites all MacLellans and their descendants regardless DowallDole MacDowalMacDole MacDowallMacDill Contact Ross Nicolson Hawson; Haygood; Hayter; Hayward; Haywood; Haynie; Hayden; DoualMacDowell MacDoualMacdowell McDougalMcDowell of surname spelling to join in preserving our heritage. DougalLullich MacDougalMcLullich l MacDougaldMacCullich MacCulloch McCulloch MacCullagh 10/377 North Rocks Rd., Hayfield; Hayne( s); Leask( e); ; Lester; MacGaradh; Peebles; MacClintockDougle MacLintockMcdougle McLintockMcDougald Various family names are MacLellan(d), McClellan(d), DugalMacHale MacDugalMcHoul MacDugleMactheul Carlingford NSW 2118 Peeples; Peoples; Turriff; Tweeddale; Yester MacHowell MacCowan McCown McLellan(d) and Gilliland. MacKichanDowall M’GowallMacDowal MacNamellMacDowall www.clanhay.com MacDowellMacLucas MacdowellMacLugash McDowellMacLuke Visit our website: www.clanmaclellan.net www.clanmacnicol.com LullichSpelling VariationsMcLullich May Vary or OmitMacCullich the Mac, Mc MacCulloch McCulloch MacCullagh MacClintock MacLintock McLintock MacHale McHoul Mactheul The MacEanruigs, the proud sons of Henry, invite you to join the MacHowell MacCowan McCown MacKichan M’Gowall MacNamell MacLucas MacLugash MacLuke Clan MacLeod Society Spelling Variations May Vary or Omit the Mac, Mc Societies of Australia Purposes Culture: foster Scottish culture and activities Association and Games: promote Scottish festivals and games The OFFICIAL Clan MacFarlane Society Membership is open to MacLeods Goals Genealogy: assist in genealogical research Founded 1911 - Glasgow & London and Septs (of any variant spelling), and Clan Macpherson welcomes enquiries from Macphersons of the Fellowship: foster fellowship and friendship among kith and kin Society History: maintain and promote the history of the clan and Scotland Re-established- 1973 Grandfather Mountain, NC their descendants. Recognised Septs: and members of our Associated families. For information Awards: promote charitable and educational activities via a scholarship fund Gather the Clan: as directed by our Chief, Alistair of Fordell Loch Sloy! We welcome all descendants of Askey MacAndie MacCorkill contact your local representative, our web site Clan MacFarlane from around the world! www.clan-macpherson.org/branches or the ‘Official Clan Some other surnames of the proud sons of Henry: Beaton MacAskill MacCrimmon

D'Handresson, Eanrig, Eanruig, Enderson, Endherson, Endirsone, Michael R. MacFarlane. FSA Scot - President Bethune MacAulay MacGillechallum Macpherson Association’ Facebook page Henders, Hendersone, Hendersonne, Hendersoun, Hendersoune, Brian J.W. MacFarlane - Vice President Hendery, Hendirsone, Hendirsoune, Hendrie, Hendrisoune, Hendry, Caskie MacCabe MacRaild Norie Australia. John L Macpherson Canada. John C Gillies Richard G. Kilby, FSA Scot - Treasurer [email protected] Henersoun, Hennersoune, Hennryson, Henresoun, Henreysoun, Harold MacCaig MacWilliam Tolmie [email protected] Henriesoun, Henrison, Henrisone, Henrisoun, Henrisoune, Henry, John K. Manchester - Secretary phone +61 2 4871 1123 phone +1 705 4460 280 Henryesson, Henryson, Henrysoun, Kendrick, Kenrick, MacCanrig, Lewis MacClure Norman Williamson MacCanrik, MacEanruig, MacEnrick, MacHendric, MacHendrie, lnternatlonal Clan MacFarlane Society, lnc. New Zealand. Tim McPherson Scotland. Bill Macpherson MacHendry, MacHenrie, MacHenrik, MacHenry, MacKanrig, MacKendric, NSW, ACT & Qld - Peter Macleod 02 4397 3161 [email protected] PO Box 398 Glenora, CA 91740 USA [email protected] MacKendrich, MacKendrick, MacKendrie, MacKendrig, MacKendry, phone +64 3 234 5098 phone +44 1577 830 430 MacKenrick, Makanry, Makhenry, McHenry, McKendree, McKendrick, [email protected] Victoria & Tas - David Dickie 03 9337 4384 McKendry South Australia - Nicole Walters 0415 654 836 USA. Ken Croker Clan Museum. Curator Western Australia - Ruth MacLeod 08 9364 6334 [email protected] [email protected] www.clanhendersonsociety.org phone +1 559 658 6189 phone +44 1540 673 332 MACFARLANE.ORG Email: [email protected] (1 April to 30 October)

Clan Hope of Craighall Society For all of the name and lineage of Hope INTERNATIONAL & USA AUSTRALIA Society President:Clan HopeConvenor: of The Richard Rex Hope Stephen Hope [email protected] [email protected] in Australia Inc. THE Society of Australia MembershipCraighall Chair: Society Janet Hope Higton [email protected] and New Zealand For all of the name and lineage of Hope Membership enquiries MACLEODS www.clanhope.orgINTERNATIONAL www.clanhopeaustralia.org & USA welcomed from Mackenzies If your surname is MacRae, of Craighall SocietyPresident: Richard Rex Hope of all spellings and Septs RICH IN HIGHLAND For all of the name and lineage of Hope or you are descended from a person having the INTERNATIONAL & USA AUSTRALIA [email protected] Contact: N Dennis, 61 Alma Street, TRADITIONS surname MacRae (any spelling) or that of a Sept of President: Convenor: Membership Chair: Janet Hope Higton Richard Rex Hope Stephen Hope [email protected] [email protected] East Malvern 3145 Ph 03 9569 5716 FOR INFORMATION: the Clan then you are eligible to join our Society. [email protected] Membership Chair: WWW.CLANMACLEODUSA.ORG Janet Hope Higton AUSTRALIA Visit our website Australian Contact: [email protected] Convenor: Stephen Hope Check out your Tartan and Sept A.L. MacLeod Roslyn MacRae 0412 291 054 email: [email protected] www.clanhope.org www.clanhopeaustralia.org 3923 Rockwood Way #B [email protected] www.clanmackenzie.org.au West Valley City, UT NZ Contact: Sue Tregoweth email: [email protected] www.clanhope.org www.clanhopeaustralia.org 84120-6880

Clan Macnachtan Association Worldwide Sir Malcolm F. Macnaghten of ůĂŶDĂĐ<ĞŶnjŝĞ^ŽĐŝĞƚLJŽĨĂŶĂĚĂ Macnaghten, Bart - Chief of Clan Society Chairman - Peter McNaughton - 360-686-8451 Chief: Ian Maitland, The Earl of Lauderdale! tĞŝŶǀŝƚĞLJŽƵ–ǁŚĞƚŚĞƌLJŽƵĂƌĞĂĐůĂŶƐƉĞƌƐŽŶ We welcome membership from all Scots named MacNaughton We are all related! Contact your local society ĂŵĞŵďĞƌŽĨŽŶĞŽĨŽƵƌƐĞƉƚƐ͕ĂŚŝŐŚůĂŶĚĞƌ͕ or any of the Septs on our Website: Contact the Membership  Ă^ĐŽƚ͕ŽƌũƵƐƚĂŶŚŝƐƚŽƌLJĞŶƚŚƵƐŝĂƐƚ–ƚŽũŽŝŶ Secretary, Vice-Chairman or Regional Commissioners in: North America: Rosemary Maitland Thorn Clan Innes Australia [email protected] www.clanmaitlandna.org ƚŚĞ^ŽĐŝĞƚLJĂŶĚƉĂƌƚŝĐŝƉĂƚĞŝŶŵĂŶLJĂĐƚŝǀŝƚŝĞƐ Australia - Regional Commissioner - Bruce McNaught New memberships welcome +61 7 3266 2047 [email protected] Australia: Carole Maitland [email protected] W. Canada - Regional Commissioner - Miles MacNaughton 4230 Colac- Lavers Hill RoadWeeaproinah. VIC. 3237 Innes, Thain, Mitchell, Marnock, tĞďƐŝƚĞ͗ǁǁǁ͘ĐůĂŶŵĂĐŬĞŶnjŝĞĐĂŶĂĚĂ͘ĐĂ 250-999-9636 [email protected] New Zealand: Judette Maitland [email protected] New Zealand - Regional Commissioner - John Macnaughtan 33 Disley Street, High bury, Wellington 6012. NZ Middleton, Reidford, Wilson, +64 9 441 4984 [email protected] McRob, McTary, Mavor USA - Membership Secretary - Mary Nivison Burton We welcome all with Maitland, Lauderdale, Maitlen and similar 541-401-2613 [email protected] name spelling. See the entire list and your family history at: Email [email protected] WWW.CLANMACNAUGHTON.NET www.clanmaitland.org.uk       Clan MacNeil Association  OF AUSTRALIA For all enquiries about the clan and   Clan Mackenzie membership contact.         John McNeil   Society in the 21 Laurel Avenue, Linden Park, SA 5065 Association, U.S.A  Email [email protected]  United States Clan Irwin Association We are the only national organization of Chief and Patron All Mackenzies and septs, their Clan MacNeil Association Munro in the U.S .A. affiliated with the David Irvine, Baron of Drum, Chief of the name. descendants and friends are invited to join Clan Munro (Association) of Scotland. Contact: Barbara Edelman, Chairman of Australia 65 Colonial Drive this charitable membership association. For all enquiries about the clan and Telford, PA 18969 COME JOIN US! Barbara MacKenzie, Treasurer membership contact: John McNeil Web site: www.Clanmunrousa.org 215-721-3955 [email protected] PO Box 20454 Cheyenne, WY 82003-7011 IRWIN • RVIN • IRVINE • IRVING • ERWIN • ERVIN 21 Laurel Avenue, Write: Heather Munro Daniel Over 270 ways the name has been spelled since 325 A.D. Phone: 307-214-4817 Email: [email protected] Linden Park, SA 5065 4600 Lloydrownn Road www.clanirwin.org Website: www.clanmackenzie.com Email [email protected] Mebane, NC 27302

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Clan Shaw Society Invites membership or inquires from all: Murray Clan Society Shaw, Ayson, Adamson, Esson, MacAy, MacHay, Shiach, Sheach, Sheath, Seith, The Robert Burns Club Seth, Skaith, Scaith and Shay. of North America Mike Shaw Secretary of Melbourne Inc. Applications for membership are invited from Murray’s 2403 West Cranford Denison, TX 75020 > Promotes interest in the works, life and and the following allied families: Balneaves, Dinsmore, Clan Shaw Society Dunsmore, Fleming, Moray, Murrie, Neaves, Piper, Pyper, Clan Wardlaw Association milieu of the Scottish Poet Robert Burns Smail, Smale, Small, Smeal, and Spalding. Invites membership or inquires from all: Founded 2004 > Celebrates Scottish Culture Shaw, Ayson, Adamson, Esson, MacAy, In Canada contact: William J.M. Murray Worldwide organization for all Wardlaws or related > Conducts Annual Burn Supper, Poetry 2000 Cambridge Ave #329 MacHay, Shiach, Sheach, Sheath, Seith, families. We invite you to join us. Afternoon & Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Seth, Skaith, Scaith and Shay. Campbell River, BC V9H OC3 Email: [email protected] For Membership Information contact: In the U.S. contact: Robert W. Murray Secretary: Mike Shaw ‘Wardlaw ivermair!’ Secretary: Noel Wright (03) 8333 0973 1001 Cordero Crescent 2403 West Cranford www.clanwardlaw.com Email: [email protected] Wyomissing, PA 19610-2738 Denison, TX 75020 Wardlaw Tartan and Ancestry Books Among the most ancient families of Scotland. If you are a descendant of Pollock, Pollok, Pook, Polk, Polke, Paulk, Poalke, Poulk, Poolke, Pogue Scottish Heritage - you are cordially invited to contact: Scottish A. D. Pollock, Jr. USA, Inc. PO Box 404 Greenville, KY 42345 P.O. Box 457 e-mail: [email protected] Australia Associations Pinehurst, NC 28370 Clan Pollock Welcomes membership of anyone interested Among the most ancient families of Scotland. If you are a Membership and inquiries from all Sinclairs, descendant of Pollock, Pollok, Pook, Polk, Polke, Paulk, Poalke, Sinclair Septs and Sinclair descendants. in the exchange of people and ideas between and Scotland and the United States. Poulk, Poolke, Pogue - you are cordially invited to contact: For further info contact A. D. Pollock, Jr. President: WayneSinclair 0417 146 174 Write or phone for our free brochure. PO Box 404 Secretary : Liane Sinclair 0410 045 263 www.scottishheritageusa.org Greenville, KY 42345 E: [email protected] Societies email: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] www.clansinclairaustralia.com (910) 295-4448 Australian Scottish Communtiy (Qld) Inc. Promoter of International Tartan Day, Brisbane, Queensland PO Box 3188, South BrisbaneThe 4101 Scottish Australian Ross Clan in Australia Bi-Monthly Newsletter, All things Scottish Heritage Council The clan is active again in Australia for information contact in Australia All persons of Scottish Descent Commander Des Ross(By appointment David Ross Bt Chief of Clan Ross and Balnagowan) welcome. www.aussie-scots.org.au,Email: Australian Scottish for information contact Commander Des Ross The Stewart Society [email protected], Ph 07 3359 8195 We would be pleased to hear from anyone with Ross Clan (By appointment David Ross Bt Chief of Clan Ross and Balnagowan) Welcomes Stewarts, however spelt, by name, Communtiy (Qld) Inc. heritage and interest. Founded at a meeting held in Sydney 18 June 1981 birth, or descent, from all over the world. Annual We wouldcontact Commander Des Ross at be pleased to hear from anyone Promoter of International Tartan Day, Welcomes membership from all Australians of Scottish descent. [email protected] with Ross Clan heritage and interest. Gathering in historic, Stewart-related properties in Brisbane, Queensland Scotland. Newsletter. Annual magazine. PO Box 3188, South Brisbane 4101 Applications for membership can be obtained from:

Contact: Commander Des Ross at Bi-Monthly Newsletter, All things Scottish The Hon Secretary, SAHC Please inquire: The Secretary Susan Cooke tel: 02 6355 4158 [email protected] M 0403 830 853 All persons of Scottish Descent welcome. 53 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2HT, www.aussie-scots.org.au Ph 07 3359 8195 Email: [email protected] Ken Duthie JP Director of Publicity M 0409 322 374 Tel/Fax 0131 220 4512 www.stewartsociety.org Email: [email protected], www.scottishaustralianheritagecouncil.com.au

Clan Ross America  ^ĐŽƚƚŝƐŚ'ĂĞůŝĐ^ŽĐŝĞƚLJŽĨsŝĐƚŽƌŝĂ Representing the great Highland Clan of Ross since 1976. ǁǁǁ͘ƐĐŽƚƚŝƐŚŐĂĞůŝĐƐŽĐŝĞƚLJǀŝĐ͘ŽƌŐ  &ŽƵŶĚĞĚŝŶϭϵϬϱ ^ĐŽƚƚŝƐŚ'ĂĞůŝĐŚŽŝƌ͗ Society in tĞĚŶĞƐĚĂLJƐϭϬ͗ϯϬĂŵƚŽ Chicago Scots   Australia Incorporated Established in 1845, the Chicago Scots (aka Illinois Saint ϭϮ͗ϯϬƉŵĚƵƌŝŶŐƐĐŚŽŽůƚĞƌŵƐ ĂƚdŚĞ<ŝůĚĂƌĂĞŶƚƌĞ͕ƌĞĂƌŽĨ Contact: M Hodgkinson Andrew Society) is the oldest 501c3 in Illinois, The Chicago Scots organise programs and events to educate, entertain and  ϯϵ^ƚĂŶŚŽƉĞ^ƚƌĞĞƚ͕DĂůǀĞƌŶ͘ Paul D Ross, President 212 MacKenzie Street nourish Scottish identity. The Chicago Scots operate Caledonia >ĂŶŐƵĂŐĞůĂƐƐ͗tĞĚŶĞƐĚĂLJƐϳ͗ϬϬƚŽϴ͗ϯϬƉŵ Virg Bumann, VP Membership Toowoomba 4350 (07 4632 8559) Senior Living, a unique retirement community located in the  ĚƵƌŝŶŐƐĐŚŽŽůƚĞƌŵƐĂƚƚŚĞĞůƚŝĐůƵď͕ϰϮϬͲϰϮϰ 1015 Archer St, San Diego, CA, 92109 [email protected] forest preserve a few miles west of downtown Chicago. [email protected] tŝůůŝĂŵ^ƚƌĞĞƚ͕tĞƐƚDĞůďŽƵƌŶĞ͘ [email protected] http://goldenvale.wixsite.com/clansutherlandaus Tel: 708-447-5092  ŽŶƚĂĐƚDĂƵƌŝĐĞ&ŽǁůĞƌϬϰϬϴϮϮϯϮϳϳ www.clanross.org Facebook: Clan Sutherland Society in Australia W: www.chicagoscots.org ŵĂŝů͗ƐĐŽƚƚŝƐŚŐĂĞůŝĐƐŽĐŝĞƚLJǀŝĐΛŐŵĂŝů͘ĐŽŵ   SHOULDER TO SHOULDER Clan Ross of Clan Sutherland   Society of North The United States  America Inc. Comunn Gàidhlig David Ross of Ross, Baron Balnagowan,  Chief of the Clan invites all Ross’, septs and their The Society cordially invites membership of all Sutherlands Astràilia The Society of St. Andrew descendants toto join in preserving our heritage. (however the name is spelled) and of the associated families: (The Association of Australia) is a of Scotland Cheyne, Duffus, Gray, Frederith, Mowat and Oliphant. nonprofit organisation which supports the language  (Queensland) Limited www.clan-ross.org and culture of Scottish Gaels. Richard Langford Ruaraidh MacAonghais, N each Cathrach (Convenor) ABN 30 093 578 860 [email protected] Invites membership of all people of  1106 Horshoe Lane Phone: 04 0482 2314 E-mail: [email protected] Scottish descent or association Contact L. Q. Ross Blacksburg, VA 24060 Web: www.ozgaelic.org The Secretary, P.O. Box 3233, South Brisbane, BC, 105 S. Graham Ave, Orlando, Fl 32803 e-mail: [email protected] Mall: PO Box A2259, SYDNEY SOUTH 1235  www.standrewsociety.com  CLAN YOUNG AUSTRALIA Victorian Scottish Union Inc Established 1905  Umbrella group representing the interest For those affiliated with of Scottish Clans and Societies in Victoria. the Young surname Affiliated Clans & Societies  Ballarat Highland Dancing Geelong Scottish Dance Ian J Young Balmoral Highland Dancing Society Glenbrae Celtic Dancers Caledonian Society Begonia City Highland Dancing Society Kilmore Celtic Festival Australia Group Convenor Brunswick Scottish Society Maryborough Highland Society Clan Chief: The Duke of Buccleuch KT, K.B.E  Clan Donald Victoria Mornington Peninsula Caledonian Society Membership inquiries: of WA Inc. Scottish Country Dance Victoria Society Commissioner: Heather de Sylva Clan Macdonald Yarraville Inc The Robert Burns Club of Melbourne Clan Young Australia Promotes Scottish Culture and Traditions Clan Mackenzie of Australia Robert Burns Club of Camperdown Membership welcome from Scotts and Septs: 10 Cedric Street  Australia Warrnambool & District Caledonian Society in Perth, Western Australia Clan Sinclair Association Warrnambool Caledonian Highland Dancing Society Balwearie, Harden, Laidlaw, Geddes & Langlands. Parkdale VIC 3195 Clan Sutherland Australia [email protected] For further details contact John: 0427 990 754 Chief: Ms Ceilidh McKinna Robertson Info: Secretary, PO Box 320, Maclean, NSW, 2463 President: Mr Douglas Pearce Email: [email protected] Secretary: Mrs Jan Macdonald E: [email protected] Find us on Facebook: T: 03 9360 9829 M: 0438 584 930 W: clanscottaustraliagroup.moonfruit.com www.facebook.com/groups/youngsofaustralia/ www.caledoniansocietyofwainc.com E: [email protected] www.victorianscottishunion.com

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cafe, campsite and crofts. Reliable and affordable power is vital in helping these businesses thrive and expand. Geraldine MacKinnon added: “A reliable power source will certainly help increase visitor numbers but also has potential to lead to more investment in new facilities, such as a community hub and bunkhouse providing accommodation, electric showers and laundry facilities. The community and the National Trust for Scotland are currently undertaking a feasibility study for these facilities, all of which would depend on the additional electricity capacity the CREE project has delivered.” Renewables light up the Isle of Canna The new system is expected to substitute the use of over 36,000 litres of diesel fuel each year, equivalent to 96.6 tonnes Photos: Wade. Photos: Steve of carbon dioxide emissions (in direct he Isle of Canna Community it has produced a reliable, 24-hour, Transformational for the island emissions only, excluding the embodied energy involved in extracting, refining and Development Trust (IoCCDT) has environmentally sustainable power supply. Canna is owned and cared for by transporting the diesel). Over a period of announced the formal launch of All profits from the sale of electricity used conservation charity the National Trust 25 years, the scheme could prevent over its new, environmentally-friendly by Canna residents and businesses are for Scotland, which works in partnership 2,400 tonnes of carbon dioxide being Tenergy generation system, following a ploughed back into running the system. with the IoCCDT. It’s Operations Manager released into the atmosphere. Canna is the bedding-in period that saw it meet 98% Geraldine MacKinnon, CREEL Director (Islands), Alan Rankin said: “I am westernmost of the Small Isles archipelago, of residents’ energy needs. For almost 20 said: “We’re delighted that our energy absolutely delighted that this community- in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It is linked to years, Canna and Sanday’s 18 residents project is now completed and the turbines led initiative has been so successful. The the neighbouring island of Sanday by a road have had to rely on three diesel generators are making good use of this winter’s Isle of Canna Community Development and sandbanks at low tide. The island is 4.3 for power, as the islands are not connected Atlantic gales! As well as minimising the Trust is to be congratulated and we were miles (6.9 km) long and 1 mile (1.6 km) wide. to the National Grid. As a result of a noise and pollution from the generators, delighted to be able to offer our support. community venture, Canna Renewable the new scheme gives us the capacity to The advent of renewable power can truly Canna Renewable Energy and Electrification Energy and Electrification Ltd. (CREEL), build additional houses on Canna, so that be described as transformational for the Ltd (CREEL) is a non-profit distributing Company Limited by Guarantee with power is now generated through wind new families can make their home on island and this is definitely the way of the voluntary directors and members from the and solar and linked to a battery storage this beautiful island. We’re very grateful future for sustainable island communities.” Isle of Canna. The project builds on years of system, which relegates the old generators to all of our funders for their support in The new power system also benefits preparation by the Isle of Canna Community to occasional back-up use. this vital project, and especially to Jamie existing local businesses as well as allowing Development Trust, a registered Scottish CREEL owns and operates the new Adam of Community Energy Scotland who for further expansion and investment. Charity (Charity No. SC046276) which also equipment, construction of which managed the scheme and kept us on track There are around 10 local businesses runs the community shop and moorings. For finished in October 2018. Since then, through all of the complexities involved.” at present including guest houses, a further details see: www.theisleofcanna.com

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30 Fremantle, WA - The Kirking Of The Tartan 20 Brisbane, QLD - International Tartan Day 19 - 20 Waipu - Waipu Museum Art’nTartan AUSTRALIA Scottish Heritage Centre of W.A. is holding The Kirking Of King George Square, 9am to 4pm. A free day Wearable Art is for everyone. Celebrate the migration of The Tartan church service at 2pm at Scots Church, South of family entertainment Pipe Bands, Highland the Scottish settlers to Waipu, and revel in the vibrant JUNE 2019 Terrace. The Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, Rev. Dancing, Scottish Country Dancing, Celtic Choir, multi-cultural Waipu of today. The designers’ creations will 2 Ipswich, QLD - Piobaireachd Group Queensland Social William MacRae, will be officiating. All are welcome, and Family History and Genealogy and much more. be front and centre, as Art’nTartan continues to develop Piping event at Ipswich Thistle Pipe Band Hall, there will be an afternoon tea to follow (for $5 per person). Info: www.aussie-scots.org.au or 07 3359 8195. its reputation as a very creative wearable arts event at cnr Lion & Moffat Sts. Info: 07 3398 4659. Info: Patricia Hatch 08 9384 6332 or [email protected], Waipu Celtic Barn, 47 The Centre. Info: 0800 BUY TIX 22 Toowong, QLD - Queensland or Shirley Oliver 08 9457 1945 or [email protected]. (289 849) or www.waipumuseum.com/art-n-tartan 2 Malvern, SA - Welcome to Winter Highland Pipers Society Social Clan MacLeod SA invites members and friends to bring JULY 2019 Jig contest at the Walrus Bar, Regatta 20 Palmerston North - Robert Burns’ Winter Dinner along a dish to share with others as we welcome Winter An evening of fine tradition that is Robert Burns’ 1 Nationwide - Tartan Day Hotel. Info: 07 3397 4512. at the Walters residence. Info: Nicole Walters 0415 654 Winter Dinner hosted by the Manawatu Scottish An international event that celebrates the lifting of the 836 or www.cmssa.org.au/calendar-of-events.html 27 Inglewood, WA - Caledonian Society Society. Enjoy the fantastic three-course traditional English ban that prevented the wearing of tartan from of WA Xmas in July Ceilidh 5 Sydney, NSW - Scottish Highland Day Lunch meal, superlative entertainment, lively speakers and 1746 to 1782. Wear some tartan today with pride today! Put on your Santa hat and sing and dance to Celebrate the cultural delights of Scotland, enjoy a delicious unique warmth of atmosphere at Manawatu Scottish 3-course lunch of Scotland’s finest fayre, whilst the Highland 3 - 7 Camperdown, VIC - Robert Burns Scottish Festival Heel N Toe Ceilidh band. Listen to our Piper. Hall, 52 Princess St. Info: Neil Doherty or Brent Le Dancers perform to the Pipe Band at NSW Masonic Club. With great music, guest performers, and lecture series Supper supplied at the Bob Daniels Community Quesne on 06 354 2370 or 027 289 8711 respectively. coordinated by the Camperdown Historical Society, Centre, 895 Beafort St. Info: 0427 990 754. Info: 02 9284 1006 or www.nswmasonicclub.com.au 27 Wellington - Gaelic Ball 2019 Highland Dancing, poetry, Golf Day, Pipes and Drums. Scottish music, food and dance hosted by Wellington 7 - 10 Portarlington, VIC - The National Celtic Festival New events will include music workshops and master Gaelic Club (Communn Gaidhealach Wellington). Over the three day long weekend event each June classes, in-schools music program, dinner at the Masonic NEW ZEALAND with a diverse range of Celtic music and events at Info: www.wellingtongaelicclub.org.nz Lodge with haggis and Toast to the Immortal Memory of JUNE 2019 the Village Stage, Celtic Club, Wine Bar, and Celtic Robert Burns, music and dancing. Info: Chris Maguire Markets. Info: www.nationalcelticfestival.com 0428 346 165 or www.camperdownburnsfestival.com.au 1 - 2 Dunedin - Otago Centre Queen’s SCOTLAND 7 Elizabeth Bay, NSW - Curious Caledonians Concert Birthday Competition 6 Aberdeen, NSW - Aberdeen Highland Games Highland dance competitions and events at Come join at Elizabeth Bay House for an evening of late Throughout the day there will be fun for all the family - there JUNE 2019 Kings and Queens Performing Arts Centre. 18th and 19th century Scottish music with world-leading will be Highland and Country Dancing, Pipe Band displays, 1 Kirkwall, Orkney - Kirkwall City Pipe Band Parade Info: www.piping-dancing.org.nz early music performers coming together from Glasgow, Strong Man events with the Tartan Warriors to enjoy as well A street parade by Kirkwall City Pipe Band. The band Melbourne and Sydney. Musicians include members of as tug-of-war, three-legged races, and the famed Kilted 7 - 8 Christchurch - Canterbury West Coast - which will be celebrating their 100th birthday in the Evergreen Ensemble (Australia), Concerto Caledonia Dash to participate in. The 2019 Games will be a very Highland Dance Competition 2019 - parade along Broad Street for the entertainment (Scotland) and Neal Peres Da Costa and Daniel Yeadon special event marking the 20th Anniversary of the Games. Highland dance competitions and events at of locals and visitors, performing a selection of marches and sets. Info: www.kirkwallcity.com (Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney) Info: 02 6540 1300 or www.aberdeenhighlandgames.com Middleton Grange Performing Arts Centre. at Elizabeth Bay House, 7 Onslow Ave. Info: Sydney Living 6 Fremantle, WA - Scottish Masonic Charitable Info: www.piping-dancing.org.nz 2 Markinch - Markinch Highland Games Museums 02 9356 3022 or www.sydneylivingmuseums. Events include Grand Pipe Band contest, solo com.au/events/curious-caledonians-concert Foundation of WA Tartan Ball 7 Auckland - Scottish Fiddle Club Night Celebrate International tartan Day in Scottish style piping, Highland dancing contest, running, 12 Teralba, NSW - Hunter Valley Scots Club Social Night 7:30 PM - 11:00 PM at St Luke’s Church, 130 Remuera Rd. cycling, heavy events, children’s races, fun fair with an Address to the Haggis, Perth Metro Pipe Band Info: www.freewebs.com/aucklandscottishfiddleclub 7pm at Teralba Community Hall, Cnr Margaret St and Heel and Toe Ceilidh Band at the Esplanade and trade stalls. Info: www.shga.co.uk & Anzac Pde. Info: [email protected] Hotel. Info: 0433 707 716 or www.smcfwa.com.au 7 Auckland - Scottish Celtic Music Group 6 - 8 Hawick - Hawick Common Riding Monthly on the first Friday at St Luke’s Church, 14 - 18 Sydney, NSW - Scottish Week 2019 7 - 13 Parkville, VIC - 44th Australian Scottish Festival commemorating the capture in 1514 of an 130 Remuera Rd. All instruments welcome to read A variety of Scottish themed events held across Sydney Country Dance Winter School English flag by a Hawick youth, and the ancient through favourite Scottish tunes and dance sets. presented by The Scottish Australian Heritage Council The Melbourne & District Branch extends a warm practice of riding the borders of the common land. with honoured guest Dr Joseph Morrow, Lord Lyon invitation to all dancers to meet at University College, Info: John Hawthorn: [email protected] The first of the Border festivals and celebrates both in conjunction with The Australian Heraldry Society. College Drive, University of Melbourne, for a fun filled 8 Wellington - Ceilidh the capture of an English Flag in 1514 by the youth of Highlights are two history talks on Friday 14th June Hawick. Info: www.hawickcommonriding.co.uk week of Scottish Country Dancing with great teachers Hosted by the Wellington Gaelic Club (Communn & Mon 17th June and a luncheon and historical tour and musicians. Info: www.melbourne2019ws.com Gaidhealach Wellington) at Pipe Band Hall cnr of Stoke and 9 Inverness - Highland Garden Fest 2019 of Old Government House, Parramatta on Sat 15th 7 Ipswich, QLD - Piobaireachd Group Queensland Social Hanson Streets. Info: www.wellingtongaelicclub.org.nz The very first Highland Garden Fest - the only gardening June, Info: www.scottishaustralianheritagecouncil. festival in the Highlands! Whether you are a novice com.au or ring Nea on 040 899 0413. Piping event at Ipswich Thistle Pipe Band Hall, 29 Auckland - Auckland Region Ball cnr Lion & Moffat Sts. Info: 07 3398 4659. gardener or a gardening enthusiast this is a must visit 15 - 16 Boonah, QLD - The Scenic Scottish country dance event and ball. and a fun day for all of the family at Inverness Botanic Rim Clydesdale Spectacular 12 - 21 Melbourne, VIC - The Melbourne Tartan Festival Info: www.aucklandscd.org.nz Gardens. Info: www.highlandgardenfest.co.uk Includes the Fassifern Highland Games with Clydesdale A diverse of range of Scottish events across Melbourne including: Ceilidh Dance, Gala Dinner, Genealogy JULY 2019 15 Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire - and horse events, Scottish pipes & drums, , Lesmahagow Highland Games Day, Pipe Bands and more. Info: 0417 125 013 1 Nationwide - Tartan Day Clydie Spectacular Woodchopping Title and more at Boonah Pipe band contests, heavy events, road race, or www.melbournetartanfestival.com.au An international event that celebrates the lifting of the Showgrounds. Info: www.boonahshowsociety.org.au haggis hurling competition, children’s football English ban that prevented the wearing of tartan from 15 Townsville, QLD - Townsville Clansmen’s Ceilidh 13 Hawthorn, VIC - Hawthorn Pipe Band: Taking Flight tournament final, athletics and more at Glebe Park. Enjoy Scottish Country Dancing to music by the Hawthorn Pipe Band, the Grade 2 Australian 1746 to 1782. Wear some tartan today with pride today! Info: www.lesmahagowhighlandgames.com Champions, present Taking Flight, a night of top-quality Black Bear Duo, supported by available pipers and 5 Auckland - Scottish Celtic Music Group 16 Aberdeen - Aberdeen’s Highland Games drummers at the Carlton Theatre, Carlyle Gardens, Australian piping and drumming. Taking Flight is a Monthly on the first Friday at St Luke’s Church, nod to their upcoming journey to the World Pipe Band Traditional Highland Games events with pipe Condon. Tickets at www.Townsvilletickets.com.au 130 Remuera Rd. All instruments welcome to read Championships in Scotland and promises to be a night band, dance and heavy events at Hazlehead through favourite Scottish tunes and dance sets. 16 Townsville, QLD - Townsville Tartan Day of Scottish music at its finest at Hawthorn Arts Centre, Park. Info: [email protected] Info: John Hawthorn: [email protected] Enjoy the pipes and drums, the Black Bear Duo (Iain 360 Burwood Rd. Info: www.hawthornpb.com 20 - 23 Edinburgh - The Royal Highland Show Mckenzie, accordion and Emma Nixon, fiddle), plus 6 Tauranga - Tauranga Performing Arts Part agricultural show, part food festival, part family Brian Bisset the Scottish tenor from Brisbane, Scottish 20 - 21 North Adelaide, SA - Musica Scotland Celebrate Scotland’s music. Includes: Musician Workshop Highland Dance Competition fun day out, with everything from motor, equine and dancing, and get tips for your family history search. Highland dance competitions and events at craft programmes to food and drink and children’s Watch the strongman demonstration by Valhalla Strength. for musicians who play fiddle, accordion and keyboard/ Graham Young Youth Theatre, Tauranga Boys activities. Celebrating its 179th year, The Royal Add your clan to the Clans in Townsville Tree at the piano and are interested in learning how to play for College, 664 Cameron Road. Info: Mrs Helene Highland Show is one of Scotland’s most iconic Cotters Markets, Flinders St. Info: Marie 0413 456 542. dancing. The RSCDS Ball is on the Saturday evening. A Concert of Scottish Music will be held from 2pm until Karton 07 544 2024 or [email protected] events, showcasing the very best of farming food 22 Mount Pritchard, NSW - Scottish Ball 430pm, with tributes to Burns. Events at the Estonian and rural life. Info: www.royalhighlandshow.org Scottish Dancing Association of Australia & Associates 7 Christchurch - Tartan Day Lunch Hall, 200 Jeffcott St. Info: www.rscdsadelaide.org.au 22 - 23 Portsoy, Aberdeenshire - Scottish presents the Scottish Ball and Presentation of Presented by the Canterbury Scottish Heritage Council. Traditional Boat Festival Debutantes at The Starz Auditorium, Mounties, 20 Morley, WA - The Celtic Shindig Celebrate Tartan Day. Info: [email protected] Engages the local region, bringing together boats, Mount Pritchard Community Club. Info: Diane Banks: Perth Metro Pipe Band is hosting a Christmas in July 12 Auckland - Scottish Fiddle Club Night music, crafts, food and drink to celebrate the region’s [email protected] or 02 9824 0860 or Karen event as part of the 2019 Celtic Shindig. It promises to be a great night, filled with music, dancing, games and 7:30 PM - 11:00 PM at St Luke’s Church, 130 Remuera Rd. rich cultural heritage. Info: www.stbfportsoy.org McPhillips: [email protected] or 0438 810 960. Info: www.freewebs.com/aucklandscottishfiddleclub prizes. Info: https://www.trybooking.com/BAPME 29 Inverness - Piping Inverness 22 Mitcham, SA - Winter Ceilidh 13 - 14 New Plymouth - New Zealand The European Pipe Band Championships will be held Dance Scottish at the Mitcham Village Cultural 20 Argenton, NSW - Peter Adams Caledonian Night Highland Dancing Championships in Bught Park, with food and drink, traditional craft Institute Hall, 103C Princes Rd. Musicians will be Bob McInnes Band and lots of dancing with the Highland dance competitions and events at The Devon Telenn Tri. Info: www.rscdsadelaide.org.au Hunter Valley Scots Club at Club Macquarie stalls and live entertainment, will make it a fun-filled 7.00pm. Info: www.hvsc.org.au Hotel, 390 Devon Street East. Info: www.scotdancenz.co.nz family day out. Info: [email protected] 23 Ipswich, QLD - The Gathering A celebration of Celtic music, culture and performance, including the Queensland Pipe Band Championships at Ipswich Turf Club. Info: www.gatheringfestival.com.au Scottish Genealogical Research 24 Toowong, QLD - Queensland Solutions from Highland Pipers Society Social DID YOU At the Walrus Bar, Regatta Hotel. Info: 07 3397 4512. Scotword page 7 28 - 30 Kilmore, VIC - The Kilmore Celtic Festival Let us build A celebration of the early settlers who came KNOW? ACROSS — 7 Macadam; 8 Leveret; here from Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall & Wales with Celtic music and events in historic Kilmore. The Scottish Banner is 10 Bridesmaid; 11 Tutu; your Scottish Info: www.kilmorecelticfestival.org.au 29 Sydney, NSW - Scots on The Rocks - Chaotic Ceilidh the #1 source for Scottish 12 Coachman; 14 Leeway; Featuring music by ARIA Award winning Chris Duncan & Family Tree! Catherine Strutt, it will be a night of energetic and popular events in Australasia! 15 Cammachmore; 19 Whaler; dances. Includes supper (BYO alcohol). Tickets $35pp in 20 Bloomers; 22 Uses; 23 Kirriemuir; The Rocks. Info: www.sotr.org.au/chaos or 0435 154 433. With hundreds of Scottish Ron Dempsey 29 Wongawallan, QLD - Tartan Day events listed from around 25 Armoury; 26 Venison. Tattoo-Gathering of the Clans General Delivery The Act of Proscription August 1, 1747 marked the banning the world and updated by the British Empire the wearing of Tartan. Punishable by DOWN — Patriot; 2 Bard; 3 Hansom; Udora, Ontario gaol. This event we recognise the significant sacrifices made weekly. See our most up to by the Scots to protect their land and families and features 4 Pendulum; 5 Kettledrum; 6 Central; L0C 1L0, Canada the Brisbane City Pipe Band at the Fox and Hounds Country date listings and add your Inn, 7 Elevation Dr. Info: www.foxandhounds.net.au 9 Bannockburn; 13 Charleston; event anytime at: 29 Inglewood, WA - Caledonian Society of WA June Ceilidh 16 Marykirk; 17 Chasers; 18 Traitor; For details email: Sing and dance to Heel N Toe Ceilidh band. Listen www.scottishbanner.com/events to our Piper. Supper supplied at the Bob Daniels 21 Olives; 24 Main. [email protected] Community Centre, 895 Beafort St. Info: 0427 990 754.

Page 24 • The Scottish Banner • June 2019 THE SCOTTISH BANNER New digital model allows users to explore Glasgow’s prehistoric past Fossil Grove is the only site in the world with partners over the past few years to where such trees have been preserved in support efforts to conserve and protect their growth positions, and is considered the site with the service and expertise one of the world’s first examples of of our Conservation Science and Digital geoconservation. Documentation teams. Recently, water penetration into the Victorian building that houses the fossils has caused Fossil Grove, situated in discolouration and decay to some of the exhibits. We have undertaken 3D laser Glasgow’s Victoria Park, is scanning and mineralogical analysis a Site of Special Scientific to help gain a better understanding of the site and these issues. As well as Interest comprising the being a fantastic tool for interpretation, spectacular fossilised remains this new digital model is going to be of huge value to our work at Fossil Grove, of 11 Carboniferous Lycopod as it’s allowing us to access even more trees, which are around 325 detailed base information to create our risk map of the surface condition, A 3D scan of fossilised trees at million year old. which will help inform where we focus Fossil Grove in Glasgow. conservation efforts.” Andy MacGregor, SNH Operations As well as allowing a new way to explore Officer, said: “This 3D modelling istoric Environment Scotland combined to create a 3D model, enabling the site, the digital model will also play an technology is bringing to life part of (HES) has published a new 3D users to explore the site in detail from a important role in protecting Fossil Grove Scotland’s prehistory, hundreds of millions digital model of Fossil Grove range of different angles. for the future. HES has been working with of years old. It is an invaluable way to in Glasgow, allowing users to Fossil Grove, situated in Glasgow’s The Fossil Grove Trust and Scottish Natural understand our fascinating fossils, and Hexplore the city’s ancient forest from a Victoria Park, is a Site of Special Scientific Heritage (SNH) to ensure the long-term conserve them for generations to come.” unique perspective. The interactive model, Interest comprising the spectacular conservation of the fossils. The 3D model of Fossil Grove is available to view online via Sketchfab, has fossilised remains of 11 Carboniferous available to view on Sketchfab. HES’s been created through a combination of Lycopod trees, which are around 325 million Geological gem Conservation Science and Digital 3D laser scanning and photogrammetry. year old. The site was discovered in 1887, Sarah Hamilton, Conservation Scientist Documentation teams are based at This process involves taking hundreds and has been a popular visitor attraction at HES, said: “Fossil Grove is a unique the Engine Shed, Scotland’s dedicated of overlapping images which are then from the Victorian era to the present day. geological gem, and we’ve been working building conservation centre. Clan Farquharson Chief celebrates his Centenary n 1st May 2019, Clan Chief of Clan An environmentally important area of Scotland, Farquharson, Captain Alwyne the estate including the fortified castle at Compton Farquharson MC, 16th of Braemar, and baronial residence, Invercauld Invercauld, celebrated his Hundredth House, became a Trust in the 1990’s. OBirthday at a Family Gathering in Norfolk. From 1949, Alwyne Farquharson and his The Clan plans also to celebrate the Chief’s first wife, Frances, enthusiastically immersed th 100 at the Clan’s annual Gathering, Deeside, themselves in local community service, early in August 2019, when the Ballater Frances in promoting the local Scottish culture: Highland Games, of which he has been Patron music, drama, and dance, Alwyne in public and its Chieftain for 71 years, will take place service as Justice of the Peace and County during Royal Deeside’s Victoria Week. Councillor over many years for Aberdeenshire, Farquharson Clanspeople from around and District Councillor for Kincardine and the world are very much looking forward Deeside. Over the years also, as Chief, he to joining in the celebration of this special fostered the interest and growth of overseas milestone with their Chief, who is universally so greatly admired among them. This follows Clan Farquharson Associations in US, Canada, the enthusiastic and well-attended Victoria Australia and Argentina, corresponding Week celebration in 2018 of his 70th year extensively with interested members. as Chieftain of the Ballater Games. Alwyne Following the untimely passing of Frances in 1991, Farquharson, also the longest serving Alwyne was re-married in 1993, to Patricia, his Farquharson Chief, has inspired and led his present wife, and is now resident in Norfolk people and Clan, with an understanding and UK. Despite his advanced age the Chief and compassion stemming from the touchstone, Madam Farquharson remain physically active as he is wont to remind us all, of the familial and involved in the Clan and the Estate Trust, ties that bind its members in amity and as well as a large and active extended family. friendship to the Clan and to each other. Interest and growth of overseas Clan Farquharson Associations Born in 1919, Alwyne Farquharson was educated at Eton and Oxford, and served in WW II with the Royal Scots Greys. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1944 in action in France where he was also severely wounded. He was confirmed as the Chief of Clan Farquharson, 16th of Invercauld, by the Lord Lyon, King of Arms in 1949, following the death in a London air raid in 1941 of the previous Chief, inheriting the Chief & Madam Farquharson Invercauld Estates of over 100,000 acres at Braemar Gathering. which extend high into the Cairngoorms.

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IN THE SCOTTISH KITCHEN Dundee Lamb Chops Ingredients: Four leg of lamb chops 75ml/2.5 fluid oz. or five tablespoons vinegar Half teaspoon ground ginger 4 tablespoons marmalade 4 slices orange for garnish 60g/2 oz. or half stick butter 75ml/2½ fluid oz. water Half teaspoon paprika Salt and pepper Method: You will need a frying pan with a heavy base and a close-fitting lid. First, brown the chops in the butter. Sprinkle the ginger, paprika, salt and pepper over the chops and add water and vinegar. Place a generous tablespoon of marmalade on the top of each chop. Bring to a slow simmer and cook for 45 minutes on a very low heat. If required, add a little make the pastry. To make the pastry, heat extra water. Serve with a twist of orange Potato Salad Highland Salad 160ml/5½fl oz. of water, salt and lard in on top of the chops and with boiled Ingredients: Ingredients: a saucepan until just boiling. Meanwhile, potatoes and fresh vegetables. 2 tbsp. walnut pieces (optional) 1 x 300g/10½oz. sirloin or fillet steak put the flour in a mixing bowl. Pour the hot 1 tbsp. tarragon or cider vinegar salt and freshly ground black pepper liquid onto the flour and mix together with Method: 2 tsp. Dijon mustard 25ml/1fl oz. rapeseed oil a spoon. Once cool enough to handle, tip Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 2 tbsp. olive oil 1 red chilli, finely chopped onto a floured surface and knead until you 4. Cook the potatoes and swede in a 2 tbsp. walnut oil 1 tbsp. palm sugar have a smooth dough. Working as quickly saucepan of salted boiling water until 1 tsp. runny honey 2 garlic cloves, sliced as you can, cut off a quarter of the pastry tender. Drain well and return to the flaked sea salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 tbsp. fresh coriander, plus extra for the salad and set aside. Divide the remaining dough pan. Heat 50g/2oz. butter in a pan 900g/2lb. new potatoes, such as Jersey 2 tbsp. fresh mint into four equally sized balls. Roll out each and gently cook the cabbage for a few Royals or Charlotte, washed or scrubbed 1 tsp. fish sauce ball to an 18cm/7in circle, about 5mm/¼in minutes, until the cabbage is tender but 1 tbsp. chopped fresh tarragon leaves 1 tbsp. soy sauce thick. Roll out the remaining pastry and cut retains its colour. Add the cabbage to 1 large shallot, finely chopped 1 lime, juice and zest out four circular lids, 10cm/4in in diameter. the pan with the potatoes and swede. 2 tbsp chopped cornichons or gherkins 1 round lettuce Place a ball of filling on each large circle of Add the remaining 25g/1oz butter and (optional) 50g/1¾oz. sugar-snap peas, halved pastry. Gather the pastry around the meat mash together using a potato masher. and bring up the sides to form the shape Season, to taste, with salt and freshly Method: 6 radishes, sliced of a pork pie. Keep stretching the pastry ground black pepper. Place the mashed If you’re using the walnuts, place in a so it comes above the meat by around vegetables into an ovenproof lidded hot oven (about 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6) for Scotch Pies 2cm/1¾in. Dampen the edges of the pies dish and top with the cheese. Cover a few minutes until beginning to colour with water and press the lids on top of the with a lid and bake in the oven for slightly. This gives a fresher, less bitter filling. Seal the edges together using your about 30 minutes, then remove the lid flavour to the nuts. fingers. Wrap a strip of greaseproof paper and continue to cook for a further 15 Place the vinegar, mustard, oils, honey around each pie and secure with string (to minutes, or until piping hot and golden- and salt and pepper in a screw-top jar or make sure the pie holds its shape when brown on top. in the bowl of a small hand blender. Shake cooking). This is much easier if you have or blend well until creamy. Add more someone to help you. Put the pies on the seasoning if preferred. Farthing biscuits baking tray and cut a steam hole in the Cook the potatoes in boiling salted centre of each. Brush with beaten egg yolk Ingredients: water for about 15–20 minutes, until just 225g/8oz. plain flour, plus extra for dusting and transfer to the fridge to rest for 30 tender. Drain well and, when just cool 225g/8oz. self-raising flour minutes. Bake for 35-40 minutes, or until enough to handle, cut into halves or 1 tsp table salt golden-brown. Serve hot. quarters, if quite large. 1 tsp caster sugar Place the potatoes in a mixing bowl Ingredients: 85g/3oz. lightly salted butter, with the tarragon, shallots, cornichons or For the filling: Rumbledethumps plus extra to serve gherkins and walnuts, if using, and toss in 600g/1lb 5oz. mutton mince 85g/3oz. lard as much or as little of the dressing as you ¼ tsp ground mace Method: want. Serve just warm or, if you’re not eating ¼ tsp nutmeg For the biscuits, preheat the oven to straight away, refrigerate and return the 5 tbsp. gravy or stock 180C/350F/Gas 4. In a bowl, mix the salad to room temperature before eating. salt and white pepper dry ingredients together. Rub in butter For the hot water crust pastry: Method: and lard so that mixture resembles fine ½ tsp salt Preheat a barbecue or griddle pan to hot. breadcrumbs. Add just enough cold water 120g/4¼oz. lard Season the steak with lots of black pepper, to bring the mixture together to form 360g/12½oz. plain flour drizzle with oil and place onto a hot a stiff dough (about 5-6 tablespoons). 1 free-range egg yolk, beaten, for glaze barbecue or griddle pan for five minutes, Refrigerate for 15-20 minutes. On a lightly turning half-way through. To make the Method: floured work surface, roll out the dough dressing, put the chilli, palm sugar, garlic Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6 and to a thickness just less than a £1 or thick and a teaspoon of salt into a pestle and line a baking tray with baking parchment. Ingredients: coin. Using a 9cm/3½in round cutter cut mortar. Grind for 1-2 minutes, then add Cut four strips of greaseproof paper, about 600g/1lb 5oz. large potatoes, peeled and out biscuits from the dough. Prick the the coriander and mint and grind for 5cm/2in deep and 25cm/10in long, to chopped into large chunks top of the biscuits all over to decorate, another minute. Mix in the fish sauce, soy wrap around the pies. You’ll also need 400g/14oz. swede (known as turnip in leaving a plain 5mm/¼in border around sauce, lime juice and zest. four pieces of cook’s string to secure the Scotland), peeled and chopped into large the edge. Transfer to wire racks or baking Cut the lettuce into six wedges and place paper. For the filling, mix all the ingredients chunks mesh. Place the racks/mesh on baking in a bowl. Top with the sugar-snap peas, together in a bowl and season generously 75g/2¾oz. unsalted butter trays and bake for 14-16 minutes, or until radishes and a few coriander leaves. Pour with salt and white pepper. Work the liquid 250g/9oz. savoy cabbage or kale, finely sliced the biscuits are dry but not browned. the dressing over the salad and toss to coat. into the meat, divide into four portions salt and freshly ground black pepper Set aside to cool completely. Serve the Slice the beef and lay it on top of the salad and mould into balls. Refrigerate while you 25g/1oz. cheddar cheese, grated biscuits with chilled butter.

Page 26 • The Scottish Banner • June 2019 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Scientists to study health and genetics of reintroduced red squirrels in Highlands he health and genetics of Only an estimated 120,000 reds remain red squirrels reintroduced in Scotland, their numbers decimated to woodlands in the Scottish by habitat loss and persecution. Highlands by conservation Despite restoration of good habitats in Tcharity Trees for Life are to be studied by certain areas, reds can’t return to isolated scientists at the . woodlands on their own, because they Trees for Life will send hair samples avoid crossing large open spaces – so the from relocated squirrels for analysis species is missing from many suitable by researchers at the university’s Highland woods. Conservation Science Group at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, as part of the scientists’ research into Only an estimated 120,000 Scotland’s wild red squirrels. “Learning more about diseases, reds remain in Scotland, their parasites and genetic variability is vital for ensuring a long-term future for the UK’s numbers decimated by habitat red squirrels. The research may also shed light on how genetic diversity is distributed loss and persecution. across Scotland and how red squirrel populations disperse into available

habitat,” said Alan McDonnell, Trees for Since 2015, Trees for Life has relocated www.scotlandbigpicture.com. Cairns © Peter squirrels Red Life’s Conservation Manager. 140 red squirrels from strongholds in Inverness-shire and Moray to isolated The reds are also dispersing well. reintroductions at six woodlands on Wildlife conservation in Scotland fragments of forest where reds would A population has become established the Morvern peninsula and north of the Dr Rob Ogden, Director of Conservation once have lived – at Shieldaig, the Coulin at Torridon, some 15 kilometres from Dornoch Firth, at sites to be confirmed. at the university’s vet school, said: Estate near Kinlochewe, Plockton, the release site at Shieldaig – a greater This will further extend the squirrels’ “The University is very happy to be Inverewe, the Reraig peninsular, Attadale, dispersal distance than expected. range, in areas safe from disease- providing scientific support to Trees Letterewe and Gairloch. Red squirrels are also threatened by carrying grey squirrels and squirrel pox. for Life’s red squirrel reintroduction There have been positive signs of disease and competition from introduced It will also help pine forests to naturally programme. We are committed to these populations establishing at all the non-native grey squirrels. Greys spread expand, because reds plant new trees by ensuring that wildlife conservation in reintroduction sites, including successful squirrel pox virus, to which they are forgetting where they have buried their Scotland has access to the latest scientific breeding. Young squirrels have already immune but which is lethal to reds. winter stores of nuts and seeds. techniques, to increase the chances of been seen at Letterewe and Gairloch, Trees Through its The Reds Return appeal, To support the red squirrel reintroductions, project success over the long term.’’ for Life’s 2018 release sites. Trees for Life is seeking funding for more see: www.treesforlife.org.uk/appeal The 2019 Robert Burns Festival Eric Bogle is an internationally known community committee members. SCOTS’ and respected songwriter. For nearly 40 The festival program is shaping up to years he has toured the world with his be a refreshed festival with top line music. Eric has said “he has been inflicting performers coming to the festival and new his songs on innocent bystanders from elements in the program that is promised CORNER outback Australia to the streets of New York to offer variety, inclusiveness and new With David Keith and many places between” During those experiences for the community and On106.7 Phoenix FM forty years he has embarked on eight tours patrons”, said Dr Menzies. of North America, 11 tours of Europe and For further information please contact Monday 2:30 to 4:30pm many tours of Australia, with 4 tours of Secretary Chris on 0428 346 165, Traditional, Folk & Gaelic Music New Zealand thrown in. the Festival Co-ordinator Catherine O’Flynn on 0407 056 126, or see: Scottish News Views & Blethers A refreshed festival www.camperdownburnsfestival.com.au Eric has performed at many major folk and Live Streaming music festival around the globe, including www.phoenixfm.org.au Port Fairy, Woodford and the National in Australia, Philadelphia, Mariposa and Vancouver, Canada, the Edinburgh Fringe Eric Bogle. Festival in Scotland and the Celtic Music Listen to Scottish Festival in Lorient, France, as well as he Camperdown Robert Burns treading the boards in countless folk, footy, Scottish Festival Committee are bowling and social clubs and arts theatres Radio S.A. pleased to announce that Eric all around the world. Bogle will be the headline act In 1987 Eric received an OAM from the Tfor this year’s festival. Eric was born in Australian Government for his services to Scotland, as was Robert Burns, and that the entertainment industry and in 1986 he he, Eric, has a unique ability with words, received the United Nation Peace medal for music and songs, just like Burns and his contribution, through his music, to the making him Eric, a most worthy modern- cause of peace. Although he has now stopped Tuesdays: 12:30pm – 1:30pm day version of or successor to, Burns. Eric touring overseas, Eric is still doing the Saturdays: 5:00pm – 6:00pm Bogle will headline at the Camperdown occasional concert and festivals in Australia Robert Burns Scottish Festival this year. as the ‘spirit moves him’, which he hopes to 5EBI 103.1 fm The Festival Chairperson Dr John Menzies keep doing until he finally falls over, which he OAM said that “Eric Bogle will perform in further hopes will be around 2045AD. Digital EBI World: Camperdown over the festival weekend “Securing Eric Bogle and his band is with a dedicated Eric Bogle in Concert at the a real coupe for the 2019 Camperdown WWW.5ebi.com.au Theatre Royal on Saturday July 6th.” Robert Burns Scottish Festival run by

The Scottish Banner • June 2019 • Page 27 THE SCOTTISH BANNER THIS MONTH IN SCOTTISH HISTORY Names & Places In The News From Today And The Past

1 - Dr Henry Faulds, who established the uniqueness 9 - First US troops (over 10,000 men) disembark 18 - Flora MacDonald met Prince Charles 26 - Darien Company formed to set up of fingerprints, born in Beith, Ayrshire.1843 from Queen Mary on the River Clyde. 1942 Edward Stuart and persuaded him to wear a Scottish colony in Panama. 1695 women’s clothes as part of the escape plan 1 - First Tay Rail Bridge opens. It was to collapse 18 10 - James Francis Stuart born. In honour of from the Outer Hebrides to Skye. 1746 26 - King George IV died, aged 67 (and William months later in the Tay Bridge Disaster. 1878 the “Old Pretender”, this is known as “White IV ascended the throne). George IV is reckoned - Mary Queen of Scots gives birth to the future 2 - Prince Henry St Clair (Sinclair) Rose Day” in Jacobite circles. 1688 19 to be Britain’s fattest king. His favourite breakfast King James VI of Scotland and I of England. 1566 reputed to have landed in Nova Scotia, 10 - Battle of Glenshiel, Jacobites with Spanish was two roast pigeons, three beefsteaks, a having sailed from Orkney. 1398 assistance, and government forces clashed. 1719 19 - Coronation of King Charles I at Holyrood. 1633 bottle of white wine, a glass of champagne, 2 - James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, 10 - Death of King George I and 19 - “Day of Public Thanksgiving” on two of port and one brandy. 1830 beheaded in Edinburgh Grassmarket, accused accession of George II. 1727 Restoration of Charles II as king. 1660 27 - King James VI (aged 8) escaped of the murder of Lord Darnley. 1581 10 - Construction of the Forth and Clyde canal 19 - Earl Haig, Commander in Chief of British forces from Castle Ruthven. 1583 2 - Clothes rationing introduced as a war-time started. It was to take 22 years to complete. 1915-18, founder of British Legion, born. 1861 1768 27- Robin Hall, Scottish folk singer and measure. The British government 19 - Sir J M Barrie, author of Peter Pan died. 1937 needed to reduce production and musician, was born. Hall achieved national consumption of civilian clothes 20 - Adam Ferguson, philosopher, historian, “Father fame in partnership with fellow Scot, Jimmie to safeguard raw materials and of Sociology” born Logierait, Perthshire. 1723 MacGregor, on the BBC TV show, Tonight. His release workers and factory hits included The Mingulay Boat Song and Ye space for war production. It was Cannae Shove Yer Grannie Aff a Bus. 1937 not lifted until 1949. 1941 27- The Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier leaves 3 - James Hutton, founder of modern its home port for the first time.HMS Queen geology, born. 1726 Elizabeth - one of two new carriers being built 3 - Poet Robert Tannahill born in Paisley. 1774 at Rosyth dockyard in Fife at a cost of more than 3 - The company formed by John Logie 10 - The floral clock in Princes Street Gardens, £6bn - is to begin sea trials. The ship passed Edinburgh, began operation - initially driven under the just before midnight. It is Baird televised the Epsom Derby which was 20 - New Tay Rail Bridge opened, by clockwork and with only an hour hand. But the largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy. then transmitted by the BBC. 1931 the longest in Britain. 1887 it was the first of its kind in the world.1903 The flight deck alone is the size of three football 4 - First recorded inter-club golf match - 20 - First announcement of the discovery of 10 - Sir Jackie Stewart, three-times world motor pitches. The ship can operate with a crew of between Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society high-grade crude oil in the . 1969 and Links Golf Club.1818 racing champion, born in Dunbartonshire. 1939 1,000 and 40 aircraft. The 65,000 tonne warship 21 - Robert Napier, regarded as the was the Royal Navy’s first aircraft carrier since - Marie of Guise, widow of King James V 4 - London’s Wembley Stadium was vandalised by 11 “father of Clyde shipbuilding” was born. jubilant Scottish fans after a thrilling 2-1 victory and Queen Regent of Scotland, died. 1560 HMS Illustrious was scrapped in 2014. 2017 He died on 23 June, 1876. 1791 over the Auld Enemy. Following the match, 11 - Battle of Sauchieburn during which 28 - crowned at Scottish supporters invaded the pitch and caused 21 - Scottish explorer Mungo Park reached the King James III died attempting to subdue . 1838 an estimated £15,000 worth of damage. 1977 source of the river Niger in Africa. 1796 a group of rebel barons. 1488 5 - An Act of the Scottish Parliament came into force 21 - More than 50 German warships were scuttled 11 - First oil pumped ashore from British “concerning the Office of Lyoun King of Armes and at Scapa Flow, Orkney. It was the single greatest loss oilfields in the North Sea. his brether Heraldis” creating the best regulated 1975 of warships in history, and the sailors killed that day system of armorial bearings in Europe. 1592 12 - Sir David Gill, Scottish astronomer, was were the last fatalities of World War One. 1919 5 - Adam Smith, author of The Wealth born. Gill was noted for his measurements of 22 - Malt Riots, Glasgow - against higher of Nations born Kirkcaldy. 1723 solar and stellar parallaxes, which accurately taxes imposed on Scottish malt. 1725 revealed the distances of the Sun and other 5 - Referendum held on British Membership stars to Earth. He was also a pioneer in the use 22 - At the Battle of Bothwell, the Covenanters of the European Community. In Scotland of photography to map the heavens. 1843 were defeated by royal troops led by the Duke of the vote was “Yes” 1,332,286; “No” 948,039. Monmouth near Glasgow. Ideological differences Turnout was 61%. Only Shetland and Western 13 - Birth of James Clerk Maxwell, first Professor of among the Covenanters factionalised them, and 28 - The Forth and Clyde Canal opened. The Isles had majorities against. 1975 Experimental Physics at Cambridge University. He the resulting disorganisation contributed to the 35 mile course from Bowling to Grangemouth created the electromagnetic theory of light. 1831 is the longest of the Lowland canals. It was 6 - Thomas Blake Glover, founding father of ease of the Royalists’ victory. Although deaths on Japan’s industrialisation (including Mitsubishi) 13 - Rate of price inflation reached the field were few, 200 were killed later. Of the formally abandoned in 1962. Its re-opening in and Japanese Navy, born Fraserburgh. 1838 25% in the UK. 1975 1400 captured or surrendered, another 258 were 2001 was part of the Millenium Link scheme, shipwrecked while being transported in The Crown - Queen Mary, Aquitania, Empress of allowing waterway travel from Edinburgh to 6 - Sir John A MacDonald, the Scottish- 14 of London. The battle features in fictional form Canada, and Empress of Britain arrive in Glasgow by linking to the Union canal via the born Canadian statesman, died. MacDonald in Sir Walter Scott’s novel Old Mortality. 1679 was considered to be the architect of the the River Clyde with the first contingent of remarkable Falkirk Wheel boat lift. 1790 23 - Charles II sailed into the estuary of Confederation of Canada and served twice as Australian and New Zealand troops. 1940 28 - Flora MacDonald and Bonnie Prince Charlie the first Prime Minister of the unified Dominion, the river Spey and signed the Covenant 14 - John Logie Baird, inventor of the set sail from Benbecula to Skye. After Culloden, the between 1867-73 and 1878-91. 1891 before going ashore. 1650 first television, died.1946 Prince had a high price on his head. He came to 7 - Robert the Bruce died, at Cardross Castle, 23 - Singer Kenneth McKellar born. McKellar died - Queen Mary leaves Greenock, taking Benbecula, and Flora helped him escape to Skye by Dumbarton, aged 54. Bruce’s heart was then taken 15 of pancreatic cancer, at the age of 82 in 2010. 1927 nearly 15,000 GI’s home to US. 1945 disguising him as her Irish maid, Betty Burke. 1746 to Melrose Abbey, with his body having earlier 24 - The birth of Admiral Sir John Ross, being buried at Dunfermline Abbey. 1329 16 - Siege of Dunbar Castle by the Scottish Polar explorer. In 1818 he went in 7 - Sir James Young Simpson, pioneer of English was raised. 1338 search of the Northwest Passage but turned anaesthetics and chloroform, born. 1811 16 - Henry McLeish, Scottish Labour politician, back after exploring Baffin Bay.1777 7 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the celebrated was born. McLeish began his working life as 24 - Robert the Bruce defeated Edward II at architect, painter and designer, was born. a footballer for East Fife, but soon entered the Battle of Bannockburn. The battle was one of the Regarded as one of the foremost British figures in political arena, serving from 1987 as MP for most famous events in the wars of independence. the art nouveau movement, and as the principal Central Fife. His career reached its zenith with It saw the Scottish king, Robert the Bruce, win exponent of the “Glasgow Style”, Mackintosh was his appointment as First Minister of the Scottish a key victory over the English forces of King born in the Townhead area of the city. 1868 Executive, succeeding Donald Dewar. 1948 Edward II, despite being outnumbered two- 16 - ‘Old Tom Morris’, one of golf’s first to-one and facing what was regarded as the 28-29 - Bannockburn Live celebrated in professional players and 4 time Open finest army in the medieval world.1314 Stirling. Commemorating the 700th anniversary Champion, was born in . 1821 25 - David Douglas, explorer and botanist, born at of the Battle of Bannockburn and celebrating 17 - Wolf of Badenoch burns Elgin Cathedral. 1390 Scone, Perthshire. In addition to the Douglas Fir, he the best of Scottish folk music, food and drink brought back to Europe lupins, phlox, penstemmon, attracted visitors from around the world and 17 - Charles Macintosh patented the waterproof sunflowers, clarkia, Californian poppy, mimulus, a key event of Homecoming. 2014 cloth he was using to make raincoats. 1823 flowering currant, rose of sharon and mahonia. 1799 29 - Scottish actor Ian Bannen, was born. Bannen Bell Rock Lighthouse off Arbroath, 25 - Wallace statue unveiled at the Wallace appeared in more than 60 British and American National Monument, Stirling. 1887 Angus designed by Robert Stevenson. films. These include The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) 25 - Lord Boyd Orr, biologist and for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Nobel Prize Winner, died. Supporting Actor. He died in 1999, aged 71. 1928 8 - Robert Stevenson, engineer, who constructed 18 1971 around Scotland, born Glasgow. 1772 25 - Seven Scots, including John Stuart Forbes, 30 - Start of trial for murder of Madeleine Smith who were in the US 7th Cavalry with General Custer was eventually found “Not Proven”. The daughter of 8 -The Earl of Seaforth raised a regiment for at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. a Glasgow architect, James Smith, this most eligible the American War from the MacKenzies and 1876 MacRaes of Ross-shire and Sutherland. 1778 25 - The first Sherlock Holmes story by of society ladies was accused in 1857 of murdering 17 - Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned at the Edinburgh-born author Arthur Conan Doyle her alleged former lover, Emile L’Angelier. 1857 9 - St Columba died on Iona. Columba founded island fortress of . She eventually was published in the Strand magazine. a monastery on Iona which was to become 1891 30 - James Loughran, Scottish conductor, was born in escaped, never to step foot in Scotland again. 1567 one of the leading centres of in 26 - James IV crowned king at the age of Glasgow. Loughran first came to notice when he won Western Europe, and the base from which 18 - Pacification of Berwick, Charles I forced 15 at Scone. He reigned until 1513 when the Philharmonia Orchestra’s Conducting Competition Columba launched his successful mission to withdraw from Scotland and recognise an he fell with the flower of Scotland’s nobility in 1961, and soon became principal conductor of to convert the Pictish nation. 597 independent Scottish Parliament. 1639 at the Battle of Flodden Field. 1488 the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. 1931

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By: David The History Behind Game of Thrones C. Weinczok How Scotland’s Story Mirrors the World of Westeros The world’s most talked about television show has millions of people captivated by its tale of medieval fantasy. Over the course of eight years the show has become an unprecedented international phenomenon which has changed the television landscape, and has a special connection to Scotland’s very own history as David C. Weinczok explains.

called The Neck, a deadly boggy morass that extends for hundreds of miles and is traversable only at a single point along an old road. In terms of defensive value The Neck is equal to a million men, for any army wanting to invade the North from the South or vice versa must reckon with it. Countless armies have been broken at The Neck, allowing the North to retain its independence from the rest of the Seven Kingdoms - at least until the Targaryen dragons arrived and simply flew over it. Scotland’s own geographical crucible is Stirling. Punctuated by a mighty castle upon a crag, Stirling stands at Castle. the boundary between Highlands and Lowlands. Until the 19th century the and legend, they need look no further than boggy ground that still percolates through Matthew Paris Map of Britain. the story of Scotland. Ideally that means alongside the River Forth was far more engaging with history first-hand, just as expansive, and all overland travel had Martin did in 1981, and a great deal of The to follow the thin thread of the Roman History Behind Game of Thrones is dedicated Road or else become hopelessly mired. to enticing readers to visit Scotland’s castles, battlefields, ancient monuments, and atmospheric neuks for themselves. Game of Thrones draws Game of Thrones draws on a vast array of histories, but Scottish history is especially on a vast array of histories, but Stirling Bridge. close to its heart. There are two main ways to talk about its historical parallels. The Scottish history is especially he seed of Game of Thrones was first is the direct inspirations: the events, as comparable. As you emerge into planted with a visit to a historic characters, and locations that Martin has close to its heart. Craigmillar’s innermost courtyard you site, albeit one just south of the said, on the record, made it into his tale. are flanked by two yew trees, speculated border. In 1981 George R. R. These are the sorts of factoids that will to be up to 500 years old. It only takes TMartin was visiting a friend in the north score you points in a Game of Thrones- The nation-defining battles of Stirling a sliver of imagination to envision the of England and a trip to the ruins of themed pub quiz. The other approach is Bridge, Bannockburn, Sauchieburn, Starks at home here - Bran scrambling Hadrian’s Wall was on the itinerary. To the more thematic, looking at the way that the and Sheriffmuir were fought for control up Craigmillar’s now-ruinous walls, Ned classical mind this wall represented the broader patterns and ultimate causal forces of this vital choke point. Like Westeros’ sharpening his greatsword beneath the very frontier of civilisation and barbarism, in Scottish history are echoed in Westeros. The Neck, he who holds Stirling can yew trees, Arya practicing archery in the line between life and death itself, with These include questions like ‘how has effectively strangle the kingdom, all due the surrounding fields, and Jon sulking the sixth century Byzantine historian geography effected settlement and to a conspiracy of geography hundreds of somewhere on the ramparts. Castles play a Procopius proclaiming that “if any man conquest?’, ‘why are certain types of castles millions of years in the making. central role in Westeros, and so a good deal crosses this wall and goes to the other found in Westeros and not others?’, or ‘what of my book is concerned with them and side, he dies straightaway.” Standing upon doesGame of Thrones teach us about the A Real-World Winterfell directing readers to the best ones to visit those ancient ramparts with 2,000 years brutal realities of medieval warfare?’. Winterfell is the ancient seat of House to feel as though you have been magically of accumulated lore whirling through his Here are a few select examples from the Stark in the North and is the centrepiece transported into the depths of Martin’s head, Martin imagined what it would be book of how Scotland stacks up to Westeros. of much of the action in Game of world of ice and fire. like for a Roman legionary to stand guard Thrones right from the very first episode That, at the end of the day, is the power upon it not knowing what godforsaken Red Weddings and Black Dinners (which, incidentally, used Doune Castle of fantasy. Indulging in it imbues our horrors would come screaming out of the Game of Thrones’ most shocking scene, near Stirling to represent Winterfell’s daily realities with a sense of adventure. unknowable North at him. and there is plenty of competition for that courtyards). It is built upon a small rocky It appeals to the inner child in all of us, Martin admitted in an interview with title, was the Red Wedding. Many of the crag, and its earliest edifice is a ruinous who still yearn to find a dragon’s cave John Hodgman that, “what tended to show’s protagonists are murdered while central tower around which myriad somewhere in our neighbourhood. As emerge…was Scots, and we couldn’t staying as guests within one of Westeros’ courtyards, adjuncts, and defensive walls Martin himself stated beautifully, “we read use that.” So, in his signature fashion, great castles, a treacherous act that casts were gradually raised. Winterfell has its fantasy to find the colours again”. It is my Martin changed their name, added some an ignominious pall over all involved in its godswood, where sacred trees with carved hope that my book will help to light a spark fantastical flourishes, and so were born execution. Martin was directly inspired by faces in them watch over the Starks with for history, both for readers in Scotland the Wildlings. To me, this origin story two bloody events in Scottish history, the the power of the Old Gods. and those around the world, whose flames encapsulates the power of Game of Thrones in 1692 and the Black While there is no castle exactly like are fanned through firsthand discovery, to stimulate an interest in Scottish history, Dinner of 1440. In both events the sacred Winterfell in Scotland, imagination, and the desire set out and and history more generally. Martin took principle of ‘guest right’, in which a guest in Edinburgh is a Winterfell in miniature, find the wonders of our past and on our real history, mashed it together, inflated and host are guaranteed safety from each a parallel that Martin himself lent support doorsteps. Westeros, it turns out, does it, called it fantasy, and captivated the other, was brutally betrayed. In the case of to on his Twitter account. Though not not expire when the tv show ends or the imaginations of millions across the globe. the Black Dinner the main victim was the nearly so old as Winterfell, Craigmillar is last pages of Martin’s saga are written - in 18 year-old Earl of Douglas, a headstrong also built upon a small rocky bluff with Scotland, at the very least, it is all around us. Scottish history leader of a mighty faction only two years a great tower as its nucleus. Courtyards The History Behind Game of Thrones: The reverse is also possible. My book, The older than Game of Thrones’ Robb Stark with domestic space radiate out on three The North Remembers is History Behind Game of Thrones: The North was at the Red Wedding. of four sides from the keep, and just like available now through Remembers, takes Martin’s fantasy and Winterfell Craigmillar is defended by Pen & Sword Books and reverse-engineers the history from it to show A Narrow Neck of Land two curtain walls, the inner wall being Amazon. The author can be contacted at people that if they want tales of conflicted Westeros’ most fundamental divide is higher and mightier than the outer wall. [email protected] heroes, complex villains, climactic battles, between north and south, and the middle Architecturally it is a near-perfect match, and is on social media dynastic dramas, and a healthy dose of lore ground between those extremes is a place but the atmosphere it evokes is at least as @TheCastleHunter.

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New research shows women on Mary King’s Close defied convention 400 years ago

dinburgh’s Real Mary King’s is one of only a few streets to reference Close, one of Scotland’s a seventeenth-century woman. It also foremost visitor attractions, appears to have been somewhat of a Famous Annie’s doll stolen has released exclusive new haven for independent women. That’s Eresearch delving further than ever more than double the expected level of before into the fascinating lives of female householders.” women in Scotland’s capital hundreds of years ago. The research, carried out Defied convention in collaboration with a teaching fellow Historians have suggested that in Mary at the University of Edinburgh, cements King’s time, women generally had very the Close’s relevance in Scottish history, little status in society and there were and sets the scene for Mary King as an many restrictions on them, from selling inspirational and pioneering woman, property to making wills, and being able who broke socially constructed norms to take people to court. Mary King and her ahead of her time. neighbours defied convention.

Understanding of early modern women Annie’s Shrine. Photo: Anna Blair. th In the 17th century, at a time when In the 17 century, at a time women had very little status in society, campaign to return a ‘Tartan respect - in what has become a shrine to and when most known females were when women had very little Barbie’ doll to its ghostly owner Annie’s spirit. As a team, we are shocked either royalty or aristocracy, Mary King status in society, and when at The Real Mary King’s Close at the theft of the doll, and it’s especially utterly disrupted this rule of convention. attraction has gone viral, hard for our guides who tell our stories This shows how important Mary King’s Aattracting attention from social media with the utmost integrity — the story of most known females were Close is for our understanding of early fans across the globe. Since devilling Annie, Aiko Gibo and ‘Tartan Barbie’ have modern women. Mary King’s Close either royalty or aristocracy, deeper into the disappearance of the been a significant part of our history for had a high number of female property doll, it has been found to be part of the 26 years. It’s disappointing and incredibly owners for the time, says University of Mary King utterly disrupted iconic fashion designer, Mary Quant’s frustrating that someone would take it Edinburgh academic Dr Aaron Allen, this rule of convention. daisy doll airline collection. without any thought for the meaning it who compiled the research for the The doll and its story have been a has for so many. All we can do is hope award-winning visitor attraction. popular feature of The Real Mary King’s that someone can help track her down The few studies that have been Close award-winning history tour since and the Barbie is returned to the Close.” carried out suggest that about one in The team at The Real Mary King’s it was left there by the Japanese psychic, Paul and the team at The Real Mary five of a town’s householders might Close, would like to think that Mary Aiko Gibo in 1992. Gibo reported that she King’s Close have launched an appeal have been women. Aaron says: “Of would embrace International Women’s felt the spirit of a young girl while visiting to find Tartan Barbie on social media, course there were many women in the Day with passion, and have plenty to say one of the 17th century households within with a “no questions asked” policy if she closes and streets of Scotland’s towns, about equality. A legacy that continues to the Mary King’s Close site. makes her way home. but most were under the headship this day with the female Chief Executive According to Aiko Gibo, the young of husbands, fathers or brothers. of Continuum Attractions. Leading a girl, called Annie, was left to die in this The 20 percent who headed their own portfolio of nine attractions, of which building after her parents abandoned independent households often faced The Real Mary King’s Close is one, Juliana her during the plague, a common tale suspicion in a society where everyone Delaney has been recognised as both a on the 17th century Close. The spirit was was expected to be under someone merchant Adventurer of York and one of lifted from the room when the psychic else’s authority.” the top 100 women in tourism. returned with a gift of the ‘Tartan Barbie’ Mary King was one of them, and Commenting on this new research, that she bought on the . her Close bucked the trend. Of the Juliana said: “Discovering the high four closes which make up the visitor percentage of female-led households on A shrine to Annie’s spirit attraction, two women owned three- our Closes, gives us a platform to delve Now the hunt for the doll has gone quarters of the properties, while into the women who helped to create international, capturing the hearts and Mary King’s Close was “a haven for the foundations of the city we know minds of visitors from all over the world. independent women” with 45 percent today. Highlighting the real stories that Paul Nixon, General Manager of The of the properties having a female head are so often left out by history is at the Real Mary King’s Close, said: “It’s not a of household. core of what we do at The Real Mary surprise to me that we have thousands Aaron explains: “Of Mary King’s King’s Close. It remains a privilege to of people from all over the world getting Close’s thirty-three properties, twenty- reveal these amazing stories in such in on the search for ‘Tartan Barbie’. nine householders are named in the a memorable place and provide a Over the years many visitors have left all 1635 tax record. Of these twenty-nine, platform for them to live on.” sorts of mementoes - including several The missing daisy doll. thirteen householders were women, or To find out more visit: badges from Police Officers has a mark of 45 percent of the Close. Mary King’s Close www.realmarykingsclose.com

The Scottish Banner • June 2019 • Page 31 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Unique history found in the paintings at Scone Palace

The painting of Dido and Lady Elizabeth which hangs at Scone Palace. Lady Marjory Murray.

eghan, Duchess of Sussex, Countess of Mansfield. The image depicts Stirling, Duncan emigrated to the USA After Culloden, Duncan’s father Charles has made headlines over far Dido with Lady Elizabeth sitting on a bench, and became a collector of customs in Stewart spent time hiding in the hills more than her recent nuptials Dido seemingly pointing to her face and Connecticut. During the American War before fleeing to France, and his estates to Prince Harry and the birth holding a bowl of fruit. The painting draws of Independence, he supported the in Ardsheal, Argyll were confiscated Mof their first son, baby Archie Harrison. interested crowds at the Palace, now one of government against the rebels. by the government. The estates were Chief among the topics of discussion has Perthshire’s most popular visitor attractions, In 1767 he married Anne Erving, daughter finally returned to Duncan in 1785 and been race. But as Royal commentators have especially given the popularity of the film of the governor of Boston. A family story he and Anne settled back in Ardsheal ruminated over whether British society about her life, Belle, released in 2013. relates how, during the War of Independence, where he inherited the chieftainship of is ready for a mixed race Royal, it’s worth Lady Mansfield said: “The painting Anne stole the keys of the city prison from the Clan of Appin. remembering another woman who caused hangs in our Ambassador’s Room here at under her father’s pillow so that her husband More information on Scone Palace a similar stir more than 200 years ago. Dido Scone Palace and never fails to fascinate could liberate two Scottish prisoners. is at: www.scone-palace.co.uk Elizabeth Belle was the mixed race daughter our visitors, and me. Art critics have of an African slave and Sir John Lindsay, a asked why Dido is pointing to her face. British naval officer who was later knighted. Whatever the story is behind it, the Mystery revealed father, Sir John Lindsay, brought Sir John’s uncle and aunt, the Earl and painting is iconic in that it represents a her to the UK. The Murrays were Countess of Mansfield, brought up Dido as mixed race woman who both made her already guardians to their niece, Lady a free, educated woman in England after her mark and ruffled some feathers in late Elizabeth Murray and brought up Dido father brought her back here. 18th century Britain.” as a free, educated girl at their home at Dido, just six when she moved to Kenwood House, Hampstead. Britain, grew up on the Mansfields’ estate Extraordinary history The portrait was painted at Kenwood at Kenwood House, Hampstead with Lady Scone Palace is also exhibiting two new in about 1779 and sees St Paul’s Elizabeth Murray, the Earl and Countess’s paintings, which are on loan from the Cathedral in the background. It features niece. The Earl and Countess were said to Stewart Society. The paintings, by John Lady Elizabeth and Dido Belle sitting on have treated her like their own. The Earl of Singleton Copley, depict Duncan Stewart The long-running mystery a bench, Dido seeming to coyly point to Mansfield went on to become Lord Chief and his wife Anne, a couple with an surrounding the famous portrait of her face and holding a bowl of fruit. Justice and took steps to abolish slavery in extraordinary history. Duncan Stewart of Dido Belle was resolved recently after Britain – no doubt influenced by Dido. Ardsheal came from a famous Highland a BBC investigation attributed the Extraordinary journey family which supported the Jacobite case Scone Palace painting to Scots artist Philip Mould drew similarities between Scone Palace in the rising of 1715 and 1745. He was the David Martin. the Dido painting and one hanging Dido is famously represented in a painting eldest surviving son of Charles Stewart, In a compelling episode of the in the private drawing room of Lord which now hangs in Scone Palace, the commander of the Appin regiment popular TV series Fake or Fortune?, and Lady Mansfield at Scone Palace. Perthshire, run by the present-day Earl and at the . Educated in art expert Philip Mould looked into The portrait of Lady Marjory Murray the history of a painting which had is strikingly similar, with the same long been attributed to German artist attention to the fabric, flowers in her Johann Zoffany. hair, the colour of her lips and, tellingly, a finger resting on her face – much as David Martin Dido is portrayed. Piecing together evidence from paint The Palace, which now has 10 samples, x-ray imagery and his own paintings by David Martin, has formally studies of other paintings at Scone attributed the painting to Martin by Palace, Philip revealed that Anstruther- attaching a new plaque on the portrait. born David Martin was the artist Lady Mansfield said: “This was behind the commission. an extraordinary journey and I’m so Martin painted hundreds of grateful to the team at Fake or Fortune? portraits in his lifetime, among them for taking the time to look into this. Benjamin Franklin (an image which The painting is very precious to us as a hangs in the White House), David family and admired by the many visitors Hume and William Murray, the 1st to Scone Palace. I can’t believe the clue . It was the Earl of to the mystery painter – the portrait of Mansfield who brought up Dido Belle, the Lady Marjory Murray – has hung the mixed-race daughter of an African in our drawing room for years, quite Scone Palace, the perfect setting. slave, after her British naval captain literally staring us in the face!” Photo: VisitScotland.

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