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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: Celebrating 150 years of PO Box 6202 Editor Marrickville South, Sean Cairney NSW, 2204 Charles Rennie Tel:(02) 9559-6348 EDITORIAL STAFF Jim Stoddart [email protected] whilst there. To honour and at breathtaking vistas must be a Ron Dempsey, FSA Scot celebrate the man and his work, highlight for many visitors and North American Office: The National Piping Centre the City of has installed perhaps hitting the road will be on PO Box 6880 David McVey an innovative network of Bluetooth your next Scottish adventure? Angus Whitson Hudson, FL 34674 Lady Fiona MacGregor [email protected] beacons at all Mackintosh venues, Many may not consider Edinburgh Marieke McBean such as the Scotland Street to be a coastal city as they take in all David C. 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Scotland’s young people love castles Scotland’s first cycle The Earl of Hopetoun, Chair of Historic circuit opens in Fife Houses Scotland said: “We are thrilled to be involved with this initiative. We represent the nation’s largest collection of independently owned historic houses and gardens and are here to ensure these historic homes stay alive for generations to come. Making these sites more accessible to young people is of huge importance to us and we hope that Young Scot card holders enjoy exploring our fascinating homes.” ife Cycle Park has been opened Holders of Young Scot cards can by record breaking long-distance access all National Trust for Scotland, cyclist Mark Beaumont and Historic Environment Scotland and F Provost of Fife Jim Leishman. Funded Historic Houses places for £1 during 2018, by Fife Council, sportscotland and the Scotland’s Year of Young People. There , the purpose are over 670,000 Young Scot cardholders built cycle park is set to put central Fife in Scotland - over two-thirds of all young at the forefront of Scottish cycling and Scots - and the card is available for free further bolster the Kingdom’s position to all young people living in Scotland as the number one destination in aged 11- 26. To access the discount young Scotland for outdoor activities. people just need to present their card when Abbotsford Exterior, Historic Houses. Fife Cycle Park is an outdoor floodlit buying their ticket. The discount will run cycle facility that allows for a full range of throughout the Year of Young People 2018. cycling activities to take place in a traffic oung Scots love castles, according proving popular, showing Scotland’s free environment all year round. It’s to the nation’s top heritage young people love its oldest buildings. 1.6km in length but offers various circuit organisations. The National Exploring Scotland’s heritage layout options within this. Customers are Trust for Scotland, Historic able to choose from a variety of circuit YEnvironment Scotland and Historic Alex Paterson, Chief Executive of Historic configurations and several groups or Houses have been offering £1 access for Environment Scotland, said: “We have had sessions can use the facility at the same time. holders of Young Scot cards during the a great response to the one pound offer Mark Beaumont said: “I’ve really Year of Young People. Of the hundreds since it launched in February, with castles enjoyed opening the Fife Cycle Park who’ve already used their Young Scot card seeing the highest footfall since the scheme today. This is a first for Scotland and a to enjoy this historically low discount, was launched. However, it’s not just castles wonderful facility available to everyone, the majority have chosen to visit castles. – palaces and abbeys, such as Linlithgow not just skilled cyclists. I believe it will More than 65% of young visitors taking up Palace and Arbroath Abbey, have also Linlithgow Palace image by encourage people of all abilities to get the offer have stormed the ramparts with proved popular with young people, who Santiago Arribas Pena. on their bikes and have fun.” Edinburgh, Stirling and Crathes Castles have been exploring Scotland’s heritage.” Western Australia Police Pipe Band By The Right CD - Reader Giveaway website at www.wapol.com.au and all proceeds go back into Armadale the band to help fund running costs. You can follow the band on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ westernaustraliapolicepipeband

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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? Where is Scotland? Culloden Moor You asked readers to write if they knew of any The Highland Military Tattoo places outside of Scotland with Scottish names. Labrador, were being ‘trained’ to live with In my area, in the outer Northeast severe PTSD. We spoke to partners of of Melbourne, there is a suburb named Macleod. Many of the streets around defence force members, and heard the Macleod, also have Scottish names. To list most incredible stories of life, heartache, some, there is a Skye Street, Strathalan Road, and hope. And of course, there was the Dunvegan Crescent, and Stewart Terrace. lady who made clothes out of uniforms The suburb I went to High School in, which were no longer required, for is called St Helena. In St Helena, there teddy bears , which she then sold, with are streets named Caledonia Drive, all proceeds being directed back into a Glen Katherine Drive, Angus Court, and fund for the welfare of soldiers and their I would like to have my say on the building MacDhui Avenue. families. Oh yes, and the army cook, who development application at Culloden Scott McPhee, had specially made ‘Cullen Skink’ pies, Moor (Scottish Banner, June, 2018). Being a Briar Hill, Victoria and his conversation. We had not known conservation area and a national memorial Australia We were saddened to learn that the so many different support organisations my husband and myself are outraged at the Fort George Tattoo is no longer going existed, and wondered whether the A wee touch with our ain folk proposal of houses being built on Culloden same sort of supports were available for to be held. The only military tattoo in Many thanks for the first issue of our new Moor. It is incredibly stupid and short sighted, the Highlands. What an incredible loss Australian defence forces personnel also. online version of The Banner. Most happy a preposterous decision. Culloden is a sacred to the community. In 2016, we had the The impact of war and efforts for peace to oblige with the new system; everyone’s place. How would those people like if a housing privilege of attending the Fort George have many ramifications. Everyone “doing it” and we are happy to comply. estate was built on their sacred ground? Tattoo, on what turned out to be a wild, wanted to talk, and we were only too Best wishes for health of Miss Valerie Cheryl Bruce windy, rainy and cold night. And my happy to listen. We even heard of a few or whoever owns the situation that has folk who had at one time or another goodness, how the warmth and welcome created this necessary change. Please Jennings, NSW thought of migrating to Australia - but of the military personnel, current, and keep us posted, for our continued prayers. Australia the thought of so many things that Whatever the form, it’s great to continue retired made up for the weather! Ed note: Thanks for sharing your views could kill you (snakes, sharks, spiders, our connection with the Scottish Banner, Being averse to large crowds, the Cheryl and we would like to hear more mosquitoes, etc), had put them off! We and a wee touch with our ain folk. Wish that Fort George Tattoo was the perfect readers views on this controversial issue. did try to set the record straight!! And we had a supply of some newsprint paper, option for us. Many of the same acts that was all before the Tattoo itself. to keep the original feeling at hand. All the as the Edinburgh Tattoo, a marvellous, The local gentry and honoured guests same, our love and thanks to all involved. atmospheric location, and so many marched in , a veritable sea of the most Bruce and Janet Wallace FROM OUR advantages. We drove to Fort George, wonderful and Harris tweeds. All Wethersfield, Connecticut SOCIAL MEDIA and found parking within an easy walk close enough to see without binoculars! USA Send your photos or letters via social media of the Fort. Arriving early we were met ‘Battles’ between different Battalions by the ‘postman’ - a serving soldier, were ‘fought’ with energy and grit. The Ed note: Thank you Bruce and Janet for your Jura sunset who delighted in telling us the history choir comprised of soldiers wives was kind letter and for all the North American of the Fort and its inhabitants, and amazing, even though they were the act subscribers who have transferred their subscriptions with us. giving us hints on what to look for. who had to contend with the worst of the And on a practical level, toilets were weather. And the bands were brilliant. I St Andrew’s First Aid could go on. For atmosphere, and the easily accessible, and the seating was experience of a lifetime without all the manageable for someone with mobility crowds of the Edinburgh Tattoo, the Fort issues. We had plenty of time to walk George Tattoo would be difficult to beat. around the marquees lining the grassed It is a shame it will not continue. Thank area before the Tattoo commenced. Each you to everyone at the Fort who made our of the marquees was the location of a attendance at the Fort George Tattoo such GN Photogaphy different group of serving or returned a wonderful and memorable experience. Clydebank, Glasgow defence personnel. We spoke to the Congratulations, and well done all of you. Scotland people who looked after soldiers who Roger Key Grovedale, Coo selfie were vision impaired, those who found Victoria energy and solace in riding motor bikes, Australia Please find attached a photo of our first a group for former soldiers who had lost Ed. note: Thank you Roger for sharing your aid post at the Ringwood limbs as a result of their military service, experience with us at the Highland Military in Melbourne. SAFAA was proud to be a a young man who along with his support Tattoo, a great event we hope can come back. sponsor of the Games as well as providing the first aid and an additional marquee for the main oval. Forum in New Zealand encourage interaction, exchange ideas, and Pictured with Simon Abney-Hastings, foster involvement in Clan activities, both in our own states, territories and across the Tasman. the Earl of Loudoun are first aiders Jordan Sadly, Harold MacIsaac fell ill, and Wilkinson, Peter Barker and Iain Townsley. passed away prior to the next forum which The Earl is the Patron of the Games was hosted by Clan Donald Australia, and serves as the Chairman of the Board Sent by Robert Gibb during March 2016 at Geelong in Victoria. of Governors of St Andrew’s First Aid Scotland Following on from Geelong, Clan Australia. Buachaille Etive Mòr Photo: Neil Macdonald Commissioner Qld, Norman Donald NZ held a forum in March 2018, David Alexander-Fleming Macdonald Commissioner Vic, Lachlan Macdonald in Christchurch, which had a number Chief Commissioner High Commissioner Australia, Pamela McDonald of members of the Clan from Australia St. Andrew’s First Aid Commissioner WA, Alan Macdonald High Commissioner crossing “the ditch”, recently. Australian Headquarters NZ, Elwyn Mart Commissioner South Island and Tom I would like, on behalf of Mr Lachlan Macdonald Commissioner North Island. Macdonald High Commissioner Clan Donald Digital subscription February 2013 saw the inaugural Clan Australia, the CDA State Commissioners and Just received our first digital copy ofthe Donald Australasia get together in Auck- delegates, to extend our congratulations to Scottish Banner, it looks great. Colors are land, under the auspices of The High Com- the team from Clan Donald Canterbury, who bright and beautiful. Really impressed. The unmistakable Stob Dearg at Bua- missioner for Clan Donald NZ Mr Harold put together an interesting program for the Keep up the good work. We have enjoyed chaille Etive Mòr, Glencoe and Black MacIsaac, ably assisted by Ms Pamela attendees, and hope that we in Australia can the Banner for many years. Rock Cottage. McDonald President of Clan Donald WA. emulate their success in future. Jim and Jean Vennard A View From My Camera The aims and aspirations which Harold Jan Macdonald Delaware (formerly of Glasgow) Midlothian, Scotland held were that the forums were intended to Secretary, Clan Donald Australia USA

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Page 4 • The Scottish Banner • July 2018 THE SCOTTISH BANNER The Story of St Cuthbert Kenny MacAskill was an SNP MSP and Justice Secretary from 2007-2014. He is now a columnist with the Herald and Scotsman, as well as contributing to other papers and magazines. He has written several books on the Scottish Diaspora along with former First Minister Henry McLeish, as well on his own on Scottish politics, the By: Kenny Lockerbie Bombing and a biography of the trade union leader Jimmy Reid, recently released. MacAskill

Berwick across to , and even its again across the now border lands between suggested up into Edinburgh ministering Scotland and England. He died three years to the faithful. Hugely popular with later becoming one of England’s most ordinary people, he was widely respected popular saints as Northumbria merged for his asceticism, forsaking the riches and into Norman England. opulence that many monasteries were His image and cult were part of the noted for in later years. growing identity for the people around In 664AD Northumbria it was decided Durham and his tomb lies in that English that spiritual leadership should come cathedral city, having been moved from from Rome not Ireland, as it had been up Lindisfarne to avoid pillage and desecration, until then. This resulted in the Irish monks no doubt, by Viking raiders. Revered by returning to Iona and Lindisfarne falling many his image was even carried into battles under the direction of Melrose. The Abbot on the banners of English soldiers as they Melrose Abbey. Photo: VisitScotland. and Cuthbert as Prior were in charge of sallied north to fight the auld enemy, despite both and he moved to Holy Island where the fact that he’d been born there. owadays St Cuthbert’s Way is a at a time when the East town was Lindisfarne is based off the Northumbrian However, St Cuthbert lives on and is well-known walking route, as still part of the Kingdom of Northumbria coast to continue his work. shared peacefully now across the border well as being part of a growing that ran up the North Sea coast, traversing No doubt partly due to his ascetic by Scots and English united by the way development of pilgrimage ways the modern border between the two personality he then decided to become that bears his name. His distinctive cross Nthat are criss-crossing the country for nations. To be fair in those days not a hermit as part of his religious devotion. is also shared as it adorns the flags of both believers, historians and ramblers alike. It only was the border more fluid but Moving to another remote and almost County Durham and Kirkcudbright. runs from Melrose in the Scottish Borders modern Scotland hadn’t even been born. inaccessible island nearby he built a to the famous Lindisfarne Priory, in Apparently from a noble family he was hermitage where he remained for many years, Northumbria. At Kirk Yetholm it intersects fostered out to a family in Melrose which though visitors who came in search of advice with the Pennine Way, allowing even was common practice in those days and and spiritual guidance were received by him. keener hikers to access the famous North allowed for learning though as much in the In 684 AD he was persuaded by the of England route. art of war, as anything educational. King, as well as his church colleagues and In many ways that convergence devoted public, to forsake his isolation. between Scotland and England is apt Reluctantly agreeing he then became The Flag of Kirkcudbrightshire. for someone born in Scotland, yet who However, St Cuthbert lives Bishop of Lindisfarne travelling widely became the patron saint of the North of England. But, who St Cuthbert was is far on and is shared peacefully less well known despite the thousands who now across the border by Scots AUSTRALIAN SCOTTISH COMMUNITY (QLD) Inc. now follow his path. I also have to confess ABN 27 277 574 370 to having been remarkably ignorant of him and English united by the way until a few years ago. that bears his name. presents… Kirkcudbright The 22nd. International Day In my early years I knew of the grand Church, and the Co-operative Society Edwin who was Northumbria’s King King George Square, Brisbane CBD likewise that bore his name in Edinburgh. had recently converted to Christianity and Indeed, like most wee boys I was also aware it was turbulent times with both violence Saturday 21st July 2018 9am to 4pm that Sean Connery had worked for the latter and some paganism still prevalent. Edwin’s A FREE day of family entertainment as a milkman before achieving Hollywood predecessor as Northumbrian King had Kathleen Moore D.Ua. Celtic singer fame. But, beyond that I knew nothing. invited Irish monks over from Iona just However, a discussion with a Minister about the time that Cuthbert was born Pipe Bands friend embarking on writing a book and they included the man who became Highland Dancing on Scottish Saints opened my eyes. St St Aidan, and who founded not just but Cuthbert, he explained had a history in Lindisfarne but Melrose Abbey. Despite his Scottish Country Dancing the city of Edinburgh going back over a latter sainthood its thought that Cuthbert Celtic Choir thousand years with a church bearing would have been involved in battles before Small Pipes his having been present long before the entering into the priesthood but that current prominent site in the lea of the applied to many in the church. Fiddle Orchestra Castle was even consecrated. But, on 31st August 651 AD he was Scottie Dog Mascots But, his revelations went far beyond that on guard duty when he spotted a light when he mentioned Kirkcudbright. Now of descending in the sky, which then rose Family History and Genealogy course I knew the town and county and like again. Learning later that Aidan had died Clan Information and Stalls every young Scot knew the famous folk song that evening he took the revelation as a and much…much more! The Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede but had calling and became a novice at Melrose never associated them with St Cuthbert. My Abbey. Remaining there for 13 years, he Proudly supported by friend patiently excused my ignorance and then proceeded to Ripon, in Northern proceeded to enlighten me that Kirkcudbright England, where lands had been provided means “Church of Cuthbert” in Scots. to preach and establish a new monastery. Of course, I knew that “Kirk” was church Returning to Melrose he found the Abbey but never that “Cudbright” was Scots afflicted by the plague from which he for Cuthbert. My sense of ignorance was recovered but the Prior succumbed. lessened though when I told the tale to a Cuthbert acceded to the Priors role which President - 07 3359 8195 former First Minister who confessed that was in effect the Abbots deputy. PO Box 3188, South Brisbane 4101 he hadn’t known it either. I’m not sure Email: [email protected] Ascetic personality many Scots do either. Web: www.aussie-scots.org.au Yet, Scottish he is as he was born in In that new role he travelled far and wide in 634 AD though it has to be said from Melrose to Lindisfarne and from

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Lights on for the Fair Isle Residents loving life in Edinburgh foot most frequently though, walking 5.6 days a week, followed by travel by car or van, which was used 4.3 days a week.

Key findings in the Edinburgh People Survey 2017 include: • Residents continue to be happy with life tiny island between Orkney and in Edinburgh, with 95% of participants Shetland is getting ready to enjoy satisfied and 89% content with their A a 24-hour electricity supply for neighbourhood as a place to live. the first time later this year. Work is • 84% of citizens feel safe in their taking place on Fair Isle’s new electricity neighbourhood after dark, while most scheme after the community group don’t think violent crime (86%), graffiti Fair Isle Electricity Company secured esidents continue to enjoy life the city up 3% - and that the vast majority and vandalism (76%) or antisocial its full £2.65 million funding package in the Capital, according to the feel safe and included in their communities, behaviour (72%) is an issue in their area. last year. The three-mile long island Edinburgh People Survey 2017 making Edinburgh the welcoming place it is.” has used a combination of wind and • More people than ever - 67% - attended a – the largest study of its kind in festival in Edinburgh in the last two years, diesel power since the 1980s, but it is RScotland. Of the 5,180 respondents to the Community life with 76% believing festivals make the presently lights out between 11pm and annual survey, 95% said they were satisfied Community life features heavily in the Capital a better place to live. 7am on nights when there is no wind. with Edinburgh as a place to live, while Edinburgh People Survey, which showed A spokeswoman for the National Trust • More than two thirds of respondents - 69% said they were content with the way that 39% of respondents feel they are able for Scotland, which owns the island, 72% - agree the Council cares about the the Council manages the city – up from to have a say on things happening in their said that Fair Isle would not be the last environment. 66% the previous year. Participants also area, the highest figure since the survey place in the UK to get 24-hour electricity • 57% think the Council keeps them recognised Edinburgh as an inclusive began. It is recognised that the figure could as Canna, which they also own, in the informed about the services it provides – and diverse city, with 85% perceiving be improved, though it is intended that the in the Inner Hebrides is in the same compared to 48% in 2014. neighbourhoods as a place where people recent establishment of Locality Committees situation. Fair Isle Electricity Company • Edinburgh’s parks and green spaces from different backgrounds can get on across the city will address more issues at director Robert Mitchell said “With a are as popular as ever, with an 86% rate well together and the vast majority – 94% - a local level. Other areas for improvement decent infrastructure we can look for of satisfaction, which has gradually agreeing that the Capital is welcoming and include road and pavement maintenance, sites on the island now to build houses increased over recent years. and connect them to a system, whereas accessible to people of all ages. dog fouling and graffiti and cycle safety. Council Leader, Councillor Adam McVey, A number of questions added in 2016 • 47% of respondents had used the library before there was no point in building in the previous 12 months, with 91% said: “Each year the Edinburgh People highlight residents’ travel habits and new houses because we didn’t have any satisfied with the service. capacity to take them on. All that for the Survey gives us a real insight into the public’s demonstrate, for the second year, the bus • Almost half (47%) of cyclists feel safe future will make a difference and should perception of Edinburgh, the services we to be the most common form of transport, using roads, dipping from 53% in 2016. hopefully encourage people to come provide and the areas in which we can with three quarters of participants using the and live on the island.” The project is improve. I’m pleased to see that, once again, service in the last month (compared to 68% • Two thirds of citizens are confident about expected to be completed in September. residents are satisfied with life here – with in 2016) – chiming with 90% satisfaction their job prospects in Edinburgh, broadly satisfaction with the way the Council manages with public transport. The public travel on consistent with recent years. Scotland out-performs rest Sons of Scotland Pipe Band visit China of UK for 6th year running

he annual release of visitor figures numbers to 124,341; Skara Brae in Orkney, from the Association of Leading Visitor which witnessed an 18% increase in footfall Attractions (ALVA) has seen Edinburgh as it recorded 110,028 visitors; and St Andrews Castle leap four places in the rankings Castle, which saw an 18% increase in footfall By: Pipe Major Bethany Bisaillion Pipe Major By: Tto be named the 12th most-visited attraction in bring its visitor tally for the year to 90,617. the UK for 2017. Recording a 16% increase in he Sons of Scotland Pipe Band attending. They look forward to another footfall as it welcomed 2,063,709 visitors last Recored-setting year from Ottawa, Canada had the trip to China and are most thankful for year, the iconic castle cemented its place as for Scottish attractions wonderful opportunity to take a their sponsors who made this happen. the top paid-for attraction in Scotland. Bernard Donoghue, Director of ALVA, special trip to China to help mark The Sons of Scotland Pipe Band is Canada’s The release of visitor figures also showed commented: “2017 was a remarkable and Tsome unique events being held in Beijing, oldest civilian pipe band, for more details a number of other Historic Environment record-setting year for Scottish attractions. Chengdu and Suining in late April as on the band see: www.sospb.com Scotland (HES) managed sites performing The fact that Scottish visitor attractions are the weather turned sunny and warm. As strongly throughout the last year. Stirling outperforming the rest of the UK in visitor guests of the Rideau Stone Arts Centre, the Castle and Urquhart Castle both welcomed growth reflects years of strong investment band played at the Great Wall of China and record numbers of visitors in 2017, with 18% by central and local government in at the Walk for the Environment, attended and 23% increases in footfall respectively. Scotland, and by organisations such as the by thousands of people from all over the Glasgow Cathedral joined these sites in the Heritage Lottery Fund, in Scotland’s visitor world, and at the memorial dedicated to UK top 100 for the first time, as it saw visitor economy and cultural landscape.” celebrated Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman numbers increase by 36% to 389,101. The latest figures from ALVA show Bethune. They visited the Panda Exhibit These historic attractions were closely that 2017 was a record year for Scottish and made great friends at a local grade followed by sites such as Doune Castle, which tourism, with attractions in Scotland school show supported by China’s largest continued to celebrate the ‘Outlander effect’ seeing an overall 14% increase in footfall – steel manufacturer, and worked very hard throughout 2017 with a 38% surge in visitor out-performing the UK as a whole. at all the events they had the honor of

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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. “About a month ago I was walking on a beach encroachment on this pivotal site for A Police Scotland spokeswoman said Unesco Memory of the World Register, near to Stranraer as part of my job with Solway Scotland’s story. Our great concern about as a bagpiping busker was arrested on which highlights archive and library items Coastwise, really looking at stories behind Viewhill is that it would set a precedent Edinburgh’s Royal Mile for playing the of outstanding historical value. The library place names, and there right on the water’s that developers could exploit, leading to bagpipes too loudly. The busy tourist has the largest collection of edge was this great big bone. It was the size of the absolute loss over time of an historic thoroughfare hosts many buskers, however manuscripts in the world from a period the bone that really stood out - it was much landscape. If Conservation Zone status does local businesses and residents have between the 14th and 18th century. bigger than any bone I had ever seen before not prevent this development, it confirms complained of excessive noise. and I’d found whale bones and things like that our opinion that Scotland’s Planning Laws “Before, there was a very rough track that on the beach before. I realised straight away must be completely overhauled if we are to was covered when the tide was high. Now that it was an extraordinary thing because it have a fair chance of preserving places that people will get to and from their houses was such a large bone and I really had no idea our vital to our heritage and in themselves at any time and it opens up Sanday for what it could be. It was sent to the National intrinsic to our tourism economy.” visitors, who can now reach the puffins and Museums of Scotland who have compared Diarmid Hearns, the National Trust for the lighthouse more easily. Economically it with various bones that they have and Scotland’s Head of Policy, said as the it is good for Sanday. If people want to have confirmed that it is almost certainly a conservation charity objects to new threat offer holiday accommodation, they are not mammoth bone. They now need to do further to the Culloden Conservation Zone. relying on people being able to get onto the tests to carbon date it and find out other things Developers plans have been submitted to islands only at certain times of the day.” about it - so really this is just the beginning “If successfully implemented the proposal enable construction of holiday, leisure and of the story. Until the tests are done we don’t Isebail MacKinnon, from the Isles of has the potential to help support lifeline hospitality facilities, including 13 lodges, a really know how important the discovery is Canna Community Development Trust, transport services to the region’s most cafe/shop, reception building, laundry and but as the first confirmed mammoth bone in said that the very first road to open on the remote and fragile islands. Among the most restaurant. The was the Scotland it opens up a whole new chapter of Scottish island of Sanday. The island has successful tourism initiatives are those final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of understanding what was living where and a local population of approximately 7 and which encourage the visitor to follow or 1745 and the last pitched battle fought on when and so could be incredibly important.” previously had only dirt track roads. complete a trail or visit a list of attractions. British soil. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite From the West Highland Way to Munro Nic Coombey, co-ordinator of the Solway forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart were “Only a small number of Gaelic Bagging and the recent huge success of the Coastwise project, said after finding a large decisively defeated by Government troops manuscripts with a Scottish connection NC500, they are all examples of existing survive from this early period and our 2ft (60cm) bone on a Ayrshire beach. This is on Culloden Moor. attractions that have been marketed and considered the first mammoth bone found collection of more than 60 volumes is “Police in Edinburgh have received packaged in ways that have encouraged in Scotland and could date back as far as unparalleled in its scale and coverage. complaints from local residents and a significant increases in visitors. Similarly, 30,000 years. The Gaels in Ireland and Scotland shared councillor about excessive noise from to help encourage visitors to the west coast a rich learning and literary tradition, bagpipe buskers on the Royal Mile over of Ireland, local partners including the and our collection provides a fascinating the last month. Officers engaged with the National Tourism Authority have marketed Scottish perspective. Passages in Latin buskers asking them to consider only playing the coastal route as the Wild Atlantic Way. and occasional samples of texts in Scots on six days of the week to give local residents A Scottish Islands Passport would seek to tap or English also show how actively Gaelic some respite on one day. On Sunday June into a similar area but has arguably even Scots were engaged with multiple European 4 officers from the city centre Community more potential. Among the added benefits, is cultures. We are delighted to have these Policing Team observed a bagpiper busking that it would encourage many more visitors manuscripts listed in the Memory of at Castlehill. The noise level was clearly to the smaller and least accessible islands.” the World Register – it highlights their excessive. The busker concerned was told outstanding historical and cultural value.” The Highlands and Islands Transport “This will be the first big test of the Council’s to stop playing and issued with a ‘yellow Partnership manager Neil MacRae said they are initiative to try and protect what remains of card’ warning which outlines the relevant Dr Ulrike Hogg, Gaelic manuscripts curator looking the feasibility of introducing a Scottish historic battlefield and its setting through legislation. Once a recorded police warning at the National Library of Scotland said as a Conservation Zone. The Zone could not has been issued, officers are required to early Gaelic manuscripts from the National Islands Passport for tourists. The passport be applied retrospectively to the Viewhill record the busker’s details. The busker Library of Scotland have been recognised for hopes to help boost visitor numbers and have housing development but we hope that refused to comply with this and he was their historical and linguistic significance. economic benefits to Scotland’s 93 islands, it will prevent further unsympathetic arrested. He was released later in the day.” The collection are being inscribed in the which last year attracted 1.3 million visitors.

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The Scottish Banner • July 2018 • Page 7 THE SCOTTISH BANNER WHAT’S IN A NAME? By: Ron Dempsey Have a name that has you stumped? Scottish Banner readers can send in their name queries direct to Ron via the Scottish Banner via our website at www.scottishbanner.com/contact-us, by post or email: [email protected]. Ron will do his best to help you with your name query and may just add that extra piece to your genealogy puzzle.

First on the list is the surname Moiss, it Fuller or Walker cleaned and thickened is an unusual name of which I had trouble the wool. Walker is from the Old English finding any resources defining it. I only “wealcere” Fuller is the Latin “fullo” for found two records of the name in Scotland the same operations. Working the wool in as a surname both of them in Fife. It this manner was called waulking the wool. seems to be lumped with name Moss and Earliest recording of the name in Scotland possibly it is an east coast variation of the was 1354. The highland equivalent is name. If it is in fact a form of Moss, it is has MacNucator, more than one derivation, the first being the obvious for a person resided near a Millar morass or bog. The personal and biblical Millar is a variation of spelling for the name Moses is another possible origin. occupation of Miller. Millar was more Lastly, an Irish source has it as an incorrect common a spelling in Scotland. Like Smith Anglicization of the Gaelic surname every community, parish or collection of Ó Maolmona. Oldest record of the dwelling had a miller who milled the grain. name is 1374. Variations are Mill, which be for someone who lived at the mill or nearby but not Owes necessarily the miller, the same for the The next name is a tough one. While there very Scottish name Milne. The first record are records of people named Owes I had of the name was in 1467 in the form of a difficult time finding any sort of origin Millare. Prior to that they were identified in for the name in my usual resources. Owe the Latin “Molendinarius”. Fun and friendship at the Braemar Highland Games. is a name that seems to be Scandinavian There are more names on Mr. from Ove. There is a listing for the surname Parry’s list but we will save them for our Ov in Scotland, where a Roger de Ov was column in August. hen I see Games and Festivals in other parts of Scotland. The main one recorded in 1150. The name was originally Lastly, I will again repeat my mantra advertised in January and is Harvey of Braidlie or Broadley in the French from de Eu. on family history. So much can be lost February in the Scottish parish of Dalry, Ayrshire. Walker is third on the list which is within generations. Sadly, we never Banner. especially after I have a more common name that can be think to ask questions of elders when Wjust shovelled snow from my driveway, it is Love easily explained. Although it is not we are young and elders may neglect to with a sigh and some envy that I imagine Mrs. Linda Love of Sydney, NSW, Australia what it appears to be. A Walker was an pass along what they know about past so many people in enjoying the pipes, wrote on behalf of her husband Jeff’s occupational name in the cloth trade, generations to their grandchildren. Take the dancing and the heavies at Games in surname. Mr. Love’s family hailed from they were also known as a Fuller. The a little time to do so. Enjoy your July. somewhere sunny place like Florida. Then Kirkcudbrightshire in the early 1800’s. there are those lucky Aussies who have Love has been dealt with this column in them in July because it’s a little cooler at previous years but usually in February this time of year. Sometimes life isn’t fair!!! when a name is a natural for St. Valentine’s Never mind, it is July now and my turn to Day themed column. Tartan of the Month attend the local Games so let the fun begin. Try to take the time to attend a Games or Festival. So many volunteers have Try to take the time to Sherlock Holmes Tartan worked hard that you may enjoy Scottish culture in your local area. attend a Games or Festival. It is always fun and informative to mention historical events in Scotland that So many volunteers have happened on the current calendar month so here we are for July. worked hard that you may On July 3rd, 1928 John Logie Baird transmitted the first experimental enjoy Scottish culture in colour television broadcast. Speaking of television and also radio, Lord Reith your local area. the first governor of the BBC was born at Stonehaven July 20th, 1889. While on July 6th, 1747 John Paul Jones, However, as always mentioned, the the famous hero of the U.S. Navy was born name has nothing to do with romance. at Kirkbean, Kirkcudbrightshire. He also As Mrs. Love mentioned in her letter it died in this month on July 18, 1792. has a French origin. This is correct in one variation of the name and its meaning is Harvie wolf more a female wolf which was spelled Well now off to address surname inquiries “louve” in Old French. It is probable that and there a more than a few this month. it arrived with many Old French words The Scottish Banner is pleased to be he Sherlock Holmes tartan The first is from Mr. Neil Harvie Thomas to Britain and latterly to Scotland with offering the Tartan of the Month series (Reference: 11759) has been of Belair, South Australia, who wrote a descendants of the Norman Conquest. highlighting a variety of different, unique created to show his followers that complimentary letter and inquired about It was also recorded as Lufe as early and colourful tartans from around the a tartan has been designed in his his middle name Harvie. as 1472 in Scotland, which lends itself Tname. The creator of Sherlock Holmes was world which are registered with the One source of the name is from a to an even more ancient variation of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was born in Scottish Register of Tartans in Edinburgh. Breton personal name meaning “battle name which is “Lufa” an Old English Scotland with Irish ancestry, hence the worthy. A person bearing this name personal name. The Scottish Register of Tartans was blue and green in the tartan. The lighter brought it to Britain via the conquest in established by an act of the Scottish blue with the brown edging represents 1066. Later the name is again the personal Moiss Parliament in November 2008 and the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, the name of the lord who held sway over the Mr. Ray Parry of Lismore NSW, Australia promotes and preserves information gold strip to show that Sherlock Holmes lands of Keith and so the surname Harvey joins us again with an impressive list about historic and contemporary was one of the leading detectives of is a of that great clan. of names that he wishes me to pursue. tartans from Scotland and throughout London. The tartan will be used to sell Other unrelated names Harvie, Some are self-explanatory and others are the world. Text and image use is courtesy merchandise worldwide to all his fans and Harvey, Hervey, and Hervie held lands interestingly not so much. of the Scottish Register of Tartans. Sherlock Holmes societies.

Page 8 • The Scottish Banner • July 2018 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Expeditions to study health of whales in Hebrides using pioneering laser photography Did you know? • The Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust has been monitoring marine megafauna in the Hebrides since 1994, and from its yacht Silurian since 2002. • Over the past 15 years, Silurian has travelled more than 100,000 kilometres surveying Hebridean waters from Islay to Cape Wrath and west of the Western Isles. Data – collected onboard by trained volunteers – forms the largest continuous database of its kind in the UK, comprising of over 6,000 hours of underwater sound recordings, and over Minke whale in the Hebrides © Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust. 30,000 animal records.

ebridean Whale and Dolphin whales’ movements, behaviour and and its volunteers are making an Anyone can join one of the trust’s Trust has announced details overall health, and help us evaluate their important contribution to marine expeditions for seven to 12 days, and there of its 2018 surveys, in which interactions with manmade items in the conservation in Scotland. We’re excited are still a few places available onboard in volunteers and marine scientists marine environment,” said Becky Dudley, by the innovative techniques the trust 2018. The surveys run to the end of October, Hwill carry out pioneering research into Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust’s is using to find out more about the with departures from Tobermory on the the health of whales, dolphins and Marine Officer. health of wildlife in Scotland’s seas. The Isle of Mull, Kyle of Lochalsh near Skye, and porpoises off Scotland’s west coast using “All of our research expeditions data collected by Hebridean Whale and Ullapool. Participation costs cover boat photogrammetry – the science of making depend on volunteers. We offer the Dolphin Trust over the years has helped expenses, accommodation, training, food and measurements from photographs. opportunity of a lifetime to contribute us understand more about our marine insurance, and support the trust’s research. The trust has been collecting data to a better understanding of cetacean wildlife and how to look after it, and this For details, email volunteercoordinator@ on cetaceans – the collective name for health, whilst enjoying the beautiful is an invaluable way to better connect hwdt.org, call + 44(0)1688 302620 or see whales, dolphins and porpoises – from scenery of Scotland’s west coast and people to nature in their local area.” www.hwdt.org/silurian its specialized research yacht Silurian experiencing some exhilarating sailing.” for 15 years. Photo-identification research over this time has catalogued Important contribution to in Scotland Historic Boondooma Homestead 230 minke whales, some of which have 8262 Mundubbera – Durong Rd Boondooma Qld returned to the same feeding grounds Volunteers live, work and sleep on Presents every year for over a decade. Silurian for up to 12 days, receiving This year, new laser photogrammetry training and working with the trust’s equipment used by the crew will enable scientists to conduct visual surveys, volunteers participating in the surveys to acoustic monitoring using specialist help collect vital new information to assess equipment, and identify individual the overall health of whales in the Hebrides. animals through dorsal fin photography. The data collected using each of these research techniques also helps to assess

Hebridean Whale and Dolphin impacts and threats caused by human activity. Volunteers also help run Silurian Trust and its volunteers – giving them the chance to develop other “Scots in the Bush” skills such as sailing and navigation. Scottish & Celtic Festival are making an important Surveys are partly funded by a grant contribution to marine from Scottish Natural Heritage, which 16th to 19th August 2018 supports the role of citizen science in conservation in Scotland. better understanding Scotland’s seas. Ceilidh on Thursday Evening Fiona Manson, a marine specialist at Scottish Natural Heritage, said: Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan on Sunday morning The bespoke equipment made for the “Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust conservation charity works by placing Featuring: Noosa & District Pipe Band, RAAF Amberley Pipes and Drums, Celtic two dots of light – of a known distance, Psychosis, Tartan Time, Velcro, Brian Letton – The Scottish Balladeer, Gervais typically around 10 centimetres – onto Fullerton, Ross Page, Celtic Thunder Oz, Rum City Highland Dancers, David the body of an animal at the same time a Rowan on Piano Accordion, Ishka. Morton Bay Fiddle Club, Limerick Modern photograph is taken. Celtic Band. Darrel Craft. Amy Bromham from Burdekin Celtic Dancers with Jeff The technique will be used to Mears on Pipes. Others to be confirmed. measure the length of the animals – Join us for the Boondooma Highland games. helping to determine numbers of young Scottish food & much more, Stalls welcome with own insurance whales, assess body conditions for Be part of “Scots in the Bush” – a weekend of fun filled entertainment for all the family. parasites such as sea lice, and classify Bar & Meals are available. marks and scars from interactions with Admission: $70 pp full weekend. Children under 14, FREE. Includes: entry, bush camping and all entertainment. Day rates available. marine plastic and fishing gear. Inquiries: “Monitoring by volunteers onboard Silurian has shown how Scotland’s Caretaker: 07 4168 0159 Judy Brandt: 0427364026 Email: [email protected] or west coast is an important feeding Photographing minke whale ground for migratory minke whales. from Silurian © Hebridean [email protected] This new equipment will help build a Whale and Dolphin Trust. For more info: www.boondoomahomestead.org.au greater understanding of individual SORRY-NO EFPOS

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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.

lemonade bottles. We used a bit of spit the wedding party, in Scotland, to throw reason no bride or groom in Pollok ever on our hair and our faces to brighten us handfuls of money out of the window of left quietly for their wedding, or ever up a little; we pulled up our socks to hide their Daimler limousines for good luck. We had to suffer bad luck. To ensure that the hacks on our legs and pulled down all copied the adults and shouted “Hard they lived in blissful good fortune for our jersey sleeves to hide the holes in up! Hard up! Hard up! Rusty pockets!”, the rest of their married lives, whenever the elbows. We looked angelic, or maybe the familiar satin ribbons were spotted pitiful, and we often had success. “Have on a limousine, we were there to ye any lemonade bottles ye don’t want, Our main chance to get extra enthusiastically help them on their way. mister? We’ll take ye’r empty bottles back On Saturdays during the summer tae the shops for you.” money came when there was a months there were lots of weddings and, “Aye, okay, son. Ye can take these wans, with a bit of luck, our gang would spot today. In fact come back again on Sunday. wedding and a scramble. It was one on our wanderings. Seeing a wedding We’re havin’ a party on Seturday night. customary for brides, and the party in the distance raised an excited call I’ll want to get rid of some mair o’ them.” of “a scramble” and our expectations ran Now, with an empty bottle or two under wedding party, in Scotland, to high as we hurried to get there on time. our arms, a trip to the pictures or a copy of We were always optimistic, hoping that we Scrambles theDandy or Beano became a possibility. throw handfuls of money out would end up with a handful of pennies Hard up, soor dook, of the window of their Daimler and half-pennies laced with a threepenny Cannae throw a penny oot Hard up! bit, a sixpenny piece, and maybe even a Hard up and kick the can, Soft drink bottles, beer bottles and jam limousines for good luck. shilling or two. If there was a very large Oor wee Sadie’s got a man, jars carried refundable deposits of a group of children already gathered then And who dae ye think it is? penny or two and were eagerly sought we might end up with not much more His name, as we all know, out by us children. Pollok folk were by although we never thought, at the time, than a black eye or a ‘skint’ knee from Is bonny Gavin Munro. nature generous and trustworthy. When about what it might mean. It was in fact the ensuing vigorous scramble along the we went to a door we just assumed that based upon the idea of making a challenge pavement and the gutter. Nevertheless the A skipping rhyme associated with the paedophiles, serial killers and rapists didn’t to the groom, suggesting that if he didn’t happy groom or bride then moved off to a throwing of small change by the groom, the live inside. Having never come across any have enough money to generously shower life of wedded bliss, taking our guaranteed best man and the bride’s parents onto the of these people in our wanderings, we us with some of it, then he mustn’t have the good luck wishes with them. Nevertheless, street on their way to the wedding celebration. realised that such predators must hang out worldly wealth and means to support a wife. if a less than generous groom or bride’s in far-off places such as Newton Mearns father had been involved then the refrain ur pocket money was never and Clarkston, but certainly not around Pennies and half-pennies of “poor oot, ye durty brute, ye cannae enough to satisfy our ambitions where we lived. So, lucky for us, no self-respecting spare a penny” might be heard and we but it could be supplemented Our main chance to get extra money groom or bride’s father for that matter disappointed bairns left with little more by going around people’s doors came when there was a wedding and a let themselves leave their homes or the than empty pockets and a new tear on the Oand asking kindly folks for their unwanted scramble. It was customary for brides, and church without a scramble. For that seat of our trousers.

rebellious? Follow in the footsteps of the their home. This continues until the only countless runaway lovers who, lured by couple left are the bride and groom who Scottish wedding traditions Scotland’s lenient marriage laws, eloped have the last dance. to the sleepy town of Gretna Green • The Traditional Grand March is often on the Anglo-Scots border. Say your the first dance to take place at a vows over the original anvil used by the wedding reception. It begins with the ‘Blacksmith Priest’ when presiding over bride and groom marching to the sound clandestine unions. of bagpipes or a live band. The maid of • The Wedding Walk is the formal march honour (or chief bridesmaid) and the taken by the wedding party to the best man join in, followed by both sets church. Preceded by a piper or fiddler, of in-laws, and finally the guests! the bridegroom leads the maid of honour while the bride walks behind Gifts with the best man. After the ceremony, • The ‘wedding sark’ is the traditional name the newlyweds leave the church given to the shirt worn by the groom followed by the best man escorted by which is gifted by the bride. The groom the maid of honour. To secure good pays for the wedding dress in return. luck it was traditionally thought that • Clocks are traditionally given to the the wedding procession should cross

Text image courtesy of VisitScotland. image courtesy of Text happy couple by the best man in the running water twice. ave you always wanted to • The ‘wedding scramble’ is traditional in north east while the maid of honour • A Penny Wedding is an ideal solution gives them a tea set. have a traditional Scottish most parts of Scotland. As the bride steps for those after a traditional yet budget• • A luckenbooth is a brooch given as a love wedding? There’s a lot more into the car, her father throws a handful friendly wedding. Guests bring their token by a gentleman to his betrothed. to it than just wearing a kilt! of coins for the children to collect. own food and drinks to the reception HLearn about the quirky Scottish good Believed to bring about financial good They are usually made of silver and allowing the couple to splurge on the engraved with two hearts combined. luck rituals and romantic customs you fortune, it also takes place in weddings in wedding cake. can incorporate into your own ceremony, Ayrshire where it is known as a ‘warsel’. • The Scottish Quaich or ‘Loving Cup’ from those which have become common • It may sound unlikely, but feet• washing is a two-handled silver bowl which is in weddings around the world to obscure is a custom that originates in Fife and topped up with whisky, usually by the Did you know? time• honoured traditions that are still Dundee & Angus. The bride sits on a bride, and then passed around for the Blackenings are a ritual performed followed in small corners of Scotland. stool while an older, married woman wedding party to sip once the legal very occasionally with great gusto on washes and dries her feet. In Fife, proceedings have been concluded. the night before the wedding. Lucky charms from around Scotland however, only a few brave bridegrooms The unlucky groom-to-be is captured • Right foot forward is the correct procedure go through the traditional custom, Dances by his friends and is stripped to the a bride should follow when exiting her which involves sitting in a tub of water • The Lang Reel is a traditional dance which waist before bound and ‘blackened’ house on her way to the wedding. while his legs are smeared with grease, happens in the fishing communities in with feathers, treacle, soot and flour! ash and soot. Lovely! • A sixpence in the bride’s shoe has long been the north east of Scotland. The dance He is then noisily paraded through the a tradition in Aberdeenshire and Angus. Ceremony and reception sees villagers and the wedding party village by his friends who endeavour to • A sprig of white heather hidden in the • Gretna Green Famous Blacksmiths Shop begin dancing from the harbour and make the experience as embarrassing bride’s bouquet is a popular good luck is where couples have been coming to continue through the village, with each as possible. In some parts of Scotland, token in the Scottish Borders. tie the knot since 1754. Are you feeling couple leaving the reel when they pass this can happen to the bride too!

Page 10 • The Scottish Banner • July 2018 THE SCOTTISH BANNER The Battle of Carham-The most important Scottish battle you may have never heard of of the River Tweed flowed further to the The Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria (the south and the supposed battle site there land north of the Humber) had once spanned was a marshland. from Humber to Forth. Scotland when first created by the joining of the Scottish and Scots nationality Pictish kingdoms therefore had the Firth So Carham was the place and 1018 was the of Forth as its frontier with Northumbria. year but what was the battles importance? Meaning that Scotland’s present-day capital, In the preceding hundreds of years the Edinburgh was once effectively in England! more indigenous Britons and Picts were The Scots sought to push the border south. joined by invaders who settled the island Edinburgh was captured around 950 of Great Britain including Scots (from and after the Scots victory at Carham the Ireland), Angles (from Denmark/Germany) province of Lothian was ceded to the Scots and Vikings (Denmark/Norway). and the border became the River Tweed, on whose south bank the battle was fought (in The importance of the Battle of present day England). Later in 1018 Owen died and the Scots Shield Wall by Peter Blood of the Osprey Company of Coldstream. Carham is that arguably, without absorbed the Kingdom of Strathclyde Courtesy of Battlefields Trust. the acquisition of Lothian and making Scotland much nearer to the size we see today. In fact at this time Strathclyde By: Kevin John Tolmie In 1018 (although some have asserted Strathclyde, Scotland, may not included the province of Cumbria so the 1016), Malcolm II, King of Scots in have been a viable entity. border was in fact much further to the south marks the millennial alliance with Owen of Strathclyde on the west coast. Cumbria was lost after the 2018anniversary of the Battle of defeated Uthred, Earl of Northumbria. Scots defeat by the English at the First Battle Carham. This battle was fought on the The confusion in dates results from The time after the departure of the of Alnwick (1093). The importance of the banks of the River Tweed, where the Uthred’s date of death being likely Romans from Caledonia (Scotland) in the Battle of Carham is that arguably, without border between Scotland and England is misreported. Simeon of Durham early 3rd century was known as the Time the acquisition of Lothian and Strathclyde, today. Indeed this battle is the reason the reported the battle was preceded by of Four Kingdoms – Scots, Picts, Britons Scotland, may not have been a viable entity. border is there. Many scholars therefore a comet. One is known to have been and Angles. Then the Vikings arrived and It may have been part of England or Norway. believe that this was one of the key visible through August 1018 so the their influence was to be significant in the So for those who value their Scots nationality battles in Scottish history as defeat here battle was likely fought in September. development of Scotland (and England). 1018 is indeed an important year to note. could have meant death for the nation The exact location of the battle is also The Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland Events will commemorate the Battle in this in its infancy. In this respect it ranks with in doubt, some placing it some 3kms Islands were to be for many years after the important anniversary year including a another little discussed battle; that of further east at the present day village of establishment of Scotland, a part of the re-enactment over the weekend 7-8 July. Dunnichen (Nechtansmere) of 685. Wark. However at that time the course Kingdom of Norway. For further details visit www.carham1018.org.uk Did you know? ACCESSORIESSCOTTISH SHOPPE KILT HIRE

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The Scottish Banner • July 2018 • Page 11 THE SCOTTISH BANNER 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.

it could just have something to do with Stealth is all. He sits in a hide for plants being brought on before being bedded The Palace of Holyroodhouse. the past: all those rufty-tufty MacGregor what seems like an eternity. But when outside. In the palace grounds are borders Photo: VisitScotland / Kenny Lam. ancestors prowling the glens. They simply the bushy-tailed creature does make an brilliant with colour and exotic species of became immune to midge attack. appearance, it refuses to sit still. tree. Here is Queen Mary’s sundial, made for reetings from Scotland, for once, I arrive at the end of day two to see how things Charles the First’s coronation in 1633. a sweltering, sunshine-bathed Wildlife photography are going and I find the team comparing pictures So why are the chief and I there? Well, spot! Since we last talked it has This resilience is handy, as the chief has been on computers. No-one has yet managed to shoot we are invited to dinner and to stay the been hot, hot, hot. Barbecues spending much time in the great outdoors. the squirrel (not literally) but there are close-up night by the Lord High Commissioner and Gbrought out of long-term hibernation. Along with other seasoned snappers the shots of birds and badgers. As dusk falls a bottle he is The Queen’s personal representative Deckchairs dusted down. Midges galore… MacGregor has been testing out a wildlife of wine is uncorked and dinner comprises of to the . For one week Yes, that is the downside of a balmy Scotia. photographic course. It is planned to take shepherd’s pie, followed by rhubarb meringue. of the year this man is effectively the May to September is the typical flying season. place on a friend’s farm – and a professional monarch north of the border. As such he During this time walkers and fishers can be seen verdict on the operation is needed. The Palace of Holyroodhouse lives at the palace for seven days, puts on rubbing anti-midge spray onto every bare bit of Rather more luxurious surroundings await receptions and dinners – and invites Scots skin and covering themselves in netting. What’s us later in the month when we are invited to from different walks of life to join him. more, rank is no bar to being bitten. Back in the Holyroodhouse sits at the end of stay at a palace. Holyroodhouse sits at the I find myself sitting next to a world- nineteenth century the world’s most powerful Edinburgh’s Canongate, its ancient end of Edinburgh’s Canongate, its ancient famous crime writer. Ian Rankin lives in woman had to flee a heathery hill after being rooms witness to death and romance. Here Edinburgh. He stems from Fife and is the eaten alive. It was Queen Victoria who was rooms witness to death and romance. is Mary Queen of Scots’ bed chamber. Here person who created Rebus, a hard-drinking being plagued by the blessed beasties. Here is Mary Queen of Scots’ are the state apartments where Bonnie Edinburgh detective who solves all those The Highlands and Islands suffers most bed chamber. Here are the state Prince Charlie held court before heading off nasty Scottish murders. Millions of copies when it comes to these annoying swarms, but to fight in the 1745 uprising. of his books have sold round the globe. apartments where Bonnie Prince the recent warm weather has brought them In this historic abode famous faces They are among my favourite reading – and out here - in the Lowlands and Borderlands Charlie held court before heading off from Scotland’s dramatic past watch from I cannot believe I am talking to their author. - and we live in near-perfect conditions: to fight in the 1745 uprising. the walls, MacBeth and With thirty or so of us at dinner it is an the soil peaty, and the house sandwiched among the cast. Today the palace hosts entertaining night. When the chief and I between a river and a bank of trees. less warlike monarchs. This is The Queen’s retire we find our bedroom high-ceiling, These no-seem-‘ems love me. So I suffer Now, my husband is a landscape official residence whilst in Scotland and floral, and heavy-curtained. The plumbing more than most. Just one solitary bite photographer. From desert dunes, to we marvel at the plasterwork ceilings; at creaks into the wee small hours and I results in a large itchy swelling. But they snow-covered mountain peaks, his forte is the tapestries and the gilded velvet chairs. wonder about ghosts. Holyroodhouse. tend to leave the chief alone. Maybe it’s capturing the majestic and the dramatic. Fabulous jewels glitter in glass cases. But Even if you do not stay the night, there is due to the fact that he’s got a tough skin. He is quite at home in the wild. So how hard it is the palace gardens that charm and a tour plenty to see in the daytime, so put this Perhaps it’s because he’s a red-head. Or, can it be to get a shot of a wee red squirrel? of the hothouses shows hundreds of tender place on your Scottish must-see list. Latest revelations from Captain Scott’s Discovery Expedition could help climate change battle including Scotland. Often concentrated in clumps on the surface of lochs, reservoirs, rivers and along shorelines, blooms and Did you know? mats can be toxic and are capable of killing animals or causing serious illness in humans. Having been stored for decades, the team of researchers, led by the Natural History Museum’s Dr Anne Jungblut, began to take a closer look at clumps of the leather-like material retrieved by the Discovery Expedition, concluding that the concentration of toxins is likely to have been even higher when originally gathered. The Discovery in Antarctica. Photo: Dundee Heritage Trust. A catalogue of breakthroughs • The Discovery was modelled after he is one of the world’s most to Geoffrey Codd, Emeritus Professor of Professor Codd added: “Modern molecular whaling ship designs. famous ships and is synonymous Microbiology at Dundee. methods are allowing us to fully examine and • The ship was nearly built in Norway with British scientific endeavour, reveal the merit of these samples. Having but it was decided that a ship for a and more than a century after her Cyanobacteria carried out research for many years on British expedition should be built in Shistoric expedition to Antarctica, RRS Professor Codd, who assisted with the cyanobacteria and especially their toxins at the UK and was built in Dundee. Discovery is still revealing her secrets. project, said, “These findings from the the University of Dundee, the home of RRS • The Discovery was the first ship ever An examination of biological samples Discovery Expedition will provide crucial Discovery, it is interesting to think that samples to be built in Britain specifically for a returned to Britain by Captain Scott and baseline information given the steady global returned on that iconic ship are still proving scientific expedition. his crew in 1904 has revealed potentially increase in cyanobacterial populations. valuable to science more than a century later.” • The vessel typically carried 45 men, crucial information for future studies These increases are in response to climate Launched in Dundee in 1901, RRS 11 officers and 36 crewmen. into climate change. Specimens of change and the growing human pressures Discovery was designed to spearhead the • The ship forms part the British cyanobacteria – commonly known as on our water resources. Using modern British National Antarctic Expedition, Antarctic Territory coat of the arms. blue-green algae – have been examined by analytical methods, we have identified led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott. • The Discovery was the last a team of researchers working at London’s several cyanobacterial toxins in the material, Tasked with carrying out scientific and traditional three-masted wooden Natural History Museum, the University the earliest evidence of these toxins in geographical research, the vessel returned ship to be built in the UK. of Dundee, and the Brain Chemistry Antarctica from a period before any real after three years in the freezing conditions, • The Dundee Heritage Trust took over Laboratory in Wyoming. The research, to human influence on the continent and having made a catalogue of breakthroughs. the care of the Discovery restoring be published in the European Journal of before the current period of increasing Today, RRS Discovery is one of Scotland’s it to its original appearance, and Phycology, provides a crucial snapshot of evidence for climate change.” most celebrated visitor attractions and is opened it as a museum in Dundee in conditions on the frozen continent before Cyanobacteria are commonplace berthed alongside the soon-to-open V&A 1986 where it remains today. widespread human activity, according in water bodies throughout the world, museum on Dundee’s waterfront.

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By: David McVey Kirkintilloch: Roman and Dry Near the site of the Lion Foundry, right by the canal, the red sandstone tower of St Mary’s Parish Church is the most distinctive building in the town, the probably front cover in any Kirkie pictorial calendar. It only dates from 1914, when it replaced the Auld Kirk that’s now the museum. Kirkie’s football team have probably the best name in world sport. Kirkintilloch Rob Roy FC, formed in 1878, have won the Scottish Junior Cup three times. Stevie Chalmers, who scored Celtic’s winning goal in the 1967 European Cup Final, played for Rob Roy. So did George Young, the first Scotsman to win 50 caps for his country. Sadly, the club are presently homeless, playing their home games seven miles away in Cumbernauld. Their former ground, Adamslie Park, was also home to Lion Foundry Bandstand in Kirkintilloch’s Peel Park - underneath, somewhere, is the Antonine Wall. the Kirkintilloch Highland Games until they were discontinued in 1977. round the year AD 140, a wall was Kirkintilloch was granted a charter as a museums were unearthed by the canal commissioned by the Roman Burgh of Barony in 1211 by King William builders. The canal was closed in 1963 Going ‘wet’ Emperor Antoninius Pius to link the Lion, so the town celebrated its 800th but reopened as a Millennium project in Famous Kirkie people include the 19th the Firths of Clyde and Forth. For official birthday in 2011. Oddly, it had the 21st century. Kirkintilloch now calls century scientist Archibald Scott Coupar, Aabout 20 years after it was built, you could celebrated its 750th in 1964, when there itself ‘Scotland’s Canal Capital’, a possible and the wartime Secretary of State for call it Rome’s North-west Frontier. In 2008, was still some ambiguity about the date contentious claim, but with an annual Scotland Tom Johnston. Contemporary what we now know as the Antonine Wall burghhood was granted. The medieval Canal Festival and increasing numbers of novelist Andrew Crumey grew up in the was awarded World Heritage Status by motte or ‘peel’ in Peel Park was captured pleasure craft chugging past, the canal is town, 18th century reforming martyr UNESCO. The course of the wall runs right by English troops during the wars of very much alive here. Thomas Muir came from nearby and through my home town of Kirkintilloch; independence. If this castle had survived Charles McIntosh - inventor of the I grew up a few hundred metres on the and been added to in stone, it’s fun to mackintosh [sic] - lived for a while at Roman side. speculate how Kirkie might have been Around the year AD 140, Antermony House a couple of miles away. The Antonine Wall was built of turf different. Perhaps it would now be a major David Gray, the 19th century poet, came on a stone foundation and not much tourist trap with the steep hill leading to a wall was commissioned from Merkland, then a country hamlet, above ground survives, and nothing at Peel Park from the Cross resembling a by the Roman Emperor now engulfed by the town; his best-known all in Kirkintilloch. However, the town’s shorter version of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile! poem, The Luggie, celebrates the broad, very name is thought to be derived from Burghs usually kept meticulous records Antoninius Pius to link the muddy river that slices through Kirkie. ‘Caer-pen-tulach’, a mixture of old Welsh and Kirkintilloch was no exception. Yet for all its rich cultural and industrial and Gaelic that suggests ‘Fort at the In 1963 the Scottish History Society Firths of Clyde and Forth. For history, Kirkie is perhaps most famous Head of the Ridge’. The ‘fort’ in the name published The Court Book of the Burgh of about 20 years after it was because for many years it had no pubs or probably refers to the medieval motte, part Kirkintilloch 1658-1694, edited by George other alcohol sales outlets. It was a ‘dry’ of which can still be seen in Peel Park. Its S Pryde, a volume that’s much-used by built, you could call it Rome’s burgh from 1920 until 1967 and several construction may have removed all trace social historians. It’s a fascinating insight local referenda were held over the years of the Roman fort that must have occupied into ordinary life and misdemeanours in North-west Frontier. giving the townsfolk the choice of whether the site. Certainly, it’s never been found. the 17th century. It often reads, as you’d to go ‘wet’. The last one was held in 1967 perhaps expect, like an archaic version of (I remember getting the day off because Burgh of Barony the crime stories in a local newspaper. Before the Second World War there my primary school was used as a polling Kirkintilloch is old, then. Some sort of were pleasure cruisers - Fairy Queen station) and this allowed the town to go settlement would have gathered around the Scotland’s Canal Capital and Gipsy Queen -operating from ‘wet’. The ‘dry’ years never led to Al Capone fort (wherever it was), the first Kirkintilloch, The Forth and Clyde Canal runs Kirkintilloch. Rail and canal met at gangsterism as during prohibition in if you like. Roman altars and other objects through the middle of Kirkintilloch. Kirkintilloch Basin, serving Kirkintilloch’s the USA, in Kirkintilloch or in any of the have been found nearby; some are on It was completed in 1790 but earlier, celebrated ironfounding industry. The other Dry Burghs, and it’s certainly true display in the town’s excellent Auld Kirk in 1773, the section from the Forth to Basin area has now been redeveloped as that standards of public behaviour have Museum (housed in a former 17th century Kirkintilloch had been opened and the a leisure marina. Two shipyards operated declined markedly since 1967 as Kirkie, church) while others are in the Hunterian town became an inland port. Some of on the canal in Kirkie, most famously perhaps, reverts to the national average. Museum at Glasgow University. the Roman artefacts now on display in producing the legendary Clyde Puffers of A few people, on hearing that I’m from Para Handy fame. Kirkintilloch, have struggled to place the name but then remembered, ‘There’s a Kirkie song, isn’t there?’ Indeed there is; Scottish On pavements throughout the UK you’ll folk legends The Corries debuted There see little cast iron drain covers that bear Are No Pubs in Kirkintilloch on their 1966 the inscription ‘Cameron and Roberton; album Those Wild Corries. Now there’s fame! Edinburgh and Kirkintilloch’. These were cast at the Southbank or Star Foundry and all of them must be fifty years old or more, now. The most famous ironworks in Kirkie (not, please, ‘Kirky’) was the Lion Foundry, which produced many of the UK’s red telephone kiosks as well as much else. It should be much better known that almost all of the classic telephone boxes (which were once annoyingly voted as ‘Icons of England’) were cast in Scotland - at the Lion, at the Carron Foundry in Falkirk, and at the Saracen Foundry in Glasgow. The St Mary’s Church (1914) The Auld Kirk Museum Kirkintilloch - originally the local church. Carron and the Saracen are now long gone, and the Forth and Clyde Canal. and so are all of Kirkie’s iron foundries.

The Scottish Banner • July 2018 • Page 13 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Hunt for Nessie’s neighbours underway Professor Neil Gemmell of the In 2016 a 30-foot long Loch Ness Gemmell and his team to the loch and University of Otago in Dunedin, New Monster model as found on the loch bed we will be eagerly anticipating their Zealand leads the team which includes during a state-of-the art sonar search by findings. While the research could Adrian Shine from the Loch Ness Kongsberg Maritime and supported by The provide an insight into one of the Project who has conducted previous Loch Ness Project and VisitScotland. world’s most famous enigmas, it will research on the loch, Professor Eric The finding was a prop from the 1970 certainly offer a closer look at all of the Verspoor, director of the Rivers and film,The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, different creatures living in the loch. Lochs Institute at College directed by Billy Wilder and starring Tourism is the heartbeat of the Scottish University of Highlands and Islands Robert Stephens and Christopher Lee economy, creating jobs and sustaining (UHI), and molecular ecologist and it is believed the model sank after its communities, so it is great to have a Lucio Marcello from UHI. Similar buoyant humps were removed. spotlight on Loch Ness and encourage investigations are being carried out at Loch Ness is famous throughout the more visitors to discover what lies nearby Lochs Morar, Oich and Garry as world, not only for the monster which beneath its depths and beyond its banks.” VisitScotland’s Chris Taylor, Loch Ness control groups that could potentially is said to inhabit its waters, but as an Professor Neil Gemmell, of the Project leader Adrian Shine, Professor reveal Nessie’s presence in Loch Ness. area of outstanding natural beauty. University of Otago, said: “Scotland is Neil Gemmell and Christina Lynggaard As creatures move through the Discoveries already made within its dear to my heart because my mother of the Super Natural History Team. loch, they leave tiny fragments of DNA waters include: a crashed Wellington and her family are Scottish, I’m through their skin, scales, feathers, bomber from the Second World War, a delighted to be here to undertake our new investigation to uncover fur, faeces and urine. The team is 100-year-old Zulu class sailing fishing environmental DNA investigation of anything unusual lurking in Loch travelling the length of the loch on the vessel and parts of John Cobb’s speed Loch Ness. It’s a place of extraordinary Ness has begun. The mission to Loch Ness Project’s deepwater research record attempt craft Crusader which natural beauty. We’re delighted with identify what lives in the UK’s vessel, Deepscan, which has been crashed at over 200mph in 1952. the amount of interest the project has Abiggest by volume freshwater loch is being provided by The Loch Ness Centre in The Loch Ness Monster or ‘Nessie’ generated in the science and, monster led by the Super Natural History team – a Drumnadrochit, taking water samples phenomenon is worth millions to or not, we are going to understand Loch global group of scientists - and has been from three different depths. UHI has the Scottish economy. Hundreds of Ness, and the life in it, in a new way.” hailed by VisitScotland as an exciting also provided an inshore boat to help thousands of visitors travel to Loch Ness Adrian Shine, Leader of the Loch venture into the mystery of Nessie. The with sampling. and Drumnadrochit every year to catch a Ness Project, said: “The Loch Ness loch’s inhabitants could be revealed glimpse of the mythical monster. Project has spent over 40 years through DNA sampling techniques used ‘Nessie’ phenomenon assembling species list for Loch by the team - who are keeping an eye out The environmental DNA project’s One of the world’s Ness the hard way using nets and for any irregular species. base camp is at the Loch Ness most famous enigmas microscopes and now looks forward to The examination involves the sampling of Project’s laboratory at The Loch Ness Chris Taylor, VisitScotland Regional comparing the results from this very water, the concentration of living things from Centre. The samples will be sent Leadership Director, said: “The mystery elegant project. But there will be a Loch that water and the extraction of the DNA to labs in New Zealand, Australia, and the intrigue of the Loch Ness Ness Monster for as long as people from these. The team will sample all over the Denmark and France to be analysed Monster attracts visitors from all over want there to be.” loch over a two-week period to determine and the final findings of the search the world to the stunning area every For more information on the project the types of creatures that live there. will be released in early 2019. year. It is exciting to welcome Professor visit: www.lochnesshunters.com Being Scottish is Bags of Fun! Most bag styles also includes a handy inside key/coin zip pouch.

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By: Nick Drainey Record bug season for Scotland Millions of insects are preparing to hatch and fly across Scotland this summer, in what is expected to be one of the most intense bug seasons in years. Perfect weather conditions have meant that crane flies are in abundance and scientists are predicting a record number impacting Scottish farmers as Nick Drainey explains. you to make a quick, sudden snap decision bumper number this summer. Cool and when you confronted by something that is wet weather in early spring meant the first harmful to you. It can be dogs, heights or emergence from the larvae below the soil it can be ancient things that posed a threat surface was not as bad as previous years. to our ancient ancestors. Those things However, Dr Alison Blackwell, an expert are sitting away in our genes and seem behind the Scottish Midge Forecast, said to predispose us in this modern day and warm weather after that means Scotland age to an intense reaction, for reasons we can expect a lot more in the coming weeks. don’t fully understand. It may be due to She said: “They are pretty adaptable in previous exposure to the sight of insects, or surviving all kinds of conditions as we have a terrifying film about insects.” seen. They know how to survive. They’ve But with a good clinical psychologist, done it for thousands of years. They Dr Salter said the phobia can be cured 80% survived the last Ice Age after all.” of the time through cognitive-behavioural And like the daddy long legs, there Daddy long legs. therapy or behavioural therapy. He said is little to be done about the midge. Dr the treatment works “like when you put Balckweall said: “To get rid of them you cotland is preparing to close the But there is little to be done to stop a hand in cold water – it’s cold at first but would have to change Scotland’s landscape windows, shut the doors and turn them coming near you, especially if out in your body adapts.” He added: “You expose – and that is not going to happen. I am off the lights in the face of masses the countryside or in the garden. At night people to an innocuous thing like a big afraid they are here to stay.” of daddy long legs. Hordes of you can only turn your lights off to stop furry woolly animal. Bit by bit you go along Scrane flies are about to take to the wing them coming near a house. A wet autumn and expose them to images on a computer across Scotland after scientists discovered has meant the larvae did not dry out at all or a book, and contact with the insects hundreds of millions of the grubs they – the main natural reason they die off. And comes at the end.” At each stage, using grow out of are living underground across Prof McCracken said climate change in the breathing and relaxation techniques, the the country. The experts at Scotland’s Rural last 20 years had seen the average yearly patient is taught to relax. “Eventually you College (SRUC) found leatherjackets had number of leatherjackets double because reach mastery,” said Dr Salter. prospered during the wet autumn and of wetter weather in Scotland. Pesticides winter and are now waiting to hatch – and had been able to kill many of them off Midges there is nothing we can do about it. but three years ago, products containing The insect perhaps best known for Previously, farmers have been able to chlorpyrifos were banned in the UK provoking fear and loathing in Scotland use special pesticides but they are now meaning there is no longer an effective is the Highland biting midge and despite banned, meaning real concern not only way of killing leatherjackets chemically. a slow start to the year. Hot weather in The Scottish midge. for people scared of the flying insects, but May and June is predicted to create a also farmers with crops in the ground. On Phobia average, at least a million of the grubs, And with no other way of ridding the ground or larvae, of daddy long legs are living in of the grubs it means they are able to thrive each hectare of land surveyed by SRUC – on the roots of spring crops, or grass being that equates to 250 on an average family grown for silage. Farmers were now “very dining table with space for four people. In worried”, Prof McCracken said, as they gardens, the leatherjackets are also a risk waited to see how much impact, particularly Warm up this winter to lawns as they like nothing better than on cereal crops there would be. The SRUC’s with our range beautiful tartan scarves-direct from Scotland! eating the roots of grass. advice to farmers is to look at their fields to work out which ones have a high density Crane flies of leatherjackets and not to plant crops on In the coming weeks they will hatch them, and instead use them for grazing. and millions of the insects – commonly known as crane flies – will take to the wing, peaking by the end of July. Davy Hordes of crane flies are about McCracken, Professor of Agricultural Ecology at SRUC, who co-authored the to take to the wing across study said of the millions of grubs, “90- Scotland after scientists plus per cent will end up as crane flies”. Although not harmful to humans, Prof discovered hundreds of McCracken concedes many are scared of the insects. He said: “It is partly their millions of the grubs they grow size and partly the way they fly – they are out of are living underground just hanging there, drifting around with their legs dangling. They will be trying to across the country. come to the lights and getting in through a window. A lot of people have a phobia but they are completely harmless.” That way money is not wasted on planting, fertiliser or cultivation for a poor yield. Birds such as rooks and waders will, however, enjoy eating the grubs in the ground. And when the daddy long legs hatch they will be food for small species. Mr McCracken said: “In a year like this I Made in the Scottish Borders and available in dozens of Clan tartans. would be saying it is a good year for birds.” Made by Ingles Buchan these soft lamb’s wool scarves are both comfortable Dr Mark Salter from the Royal College of Psychiatrists said “specific phobias” such and elegant, suitable for any occasion and anyone. 100% new wool. as those of daddy long longs or other flying If after a specific tartan please before ordering. Ask us for your tartan today! insects are an evolutionary condition, or $39.95 each plus $7.00 postage Australia wide. 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The Scottish Banner • July 2018 • Page 15 THE SCOTTISH BANNER You take the high road Six of Scotland’s best road trips

Driving through Wester Ross on the North Coast 500. Photo: Iain Sarjeant.

The freedom getting out on to the open road in Scotland is a big attraction to many. Hit the high (or low) road and discover ancient castles, glistening sandy beaches and spell-binding heritage. Scotland.org Veer off the beaten track and take in all the scenery and magic of Scotland.

ne of the best ways to discover 1. Snow Roads Scenic Route wildest, most dramatic Highland scenery and the winter sports playground of Scotland’s stunning scenery, Spanning 90 miles of snow-capped imaginable. Steep climbs, ‘blind’ summits, Glenshee Ski Centre and The Lecht; the

Text courtesy of Text rich heritage and culture is to peaks, rugged glens, outdoor and sharp twists and turns makes this Snow Roads offers plenty of short, easily get behind the wheel and set adventures, cycling and delicious food one of the slower driving routes, and the accessible detours during the course of Ooff on a scenic self-drive tour. Here are and drink; the Snow Roads Scenic Route gentler pace allows you the time to soak your journey. You can even extend your just some of the road trips you can take is a distillation of the finest elements of in the extraordinary views at ‘Instagram- journey by an extra day or two and get out around Scotland. Whether you choose the . ready’ vantage points and explore the and really explore this lesser-known corner to spend a few days just cruising Running through the eastern portion various attractions along the way. of the Cairngorms National Park. around or weeks really exploring the of this magnificent landscape, the route From whisky distilleries including Royal Discover more about the length and breadth of the country, the owes its name to the highest public Lochnagar and fairytale castles such as Snow Roads Scenic Route at: possibilities are endless. road in Britain, and boasts some of the Corgarff, to the jewels of Royal Deeside www.visitcairngorms.com/snowroads

Motorcyclists on the Spittal of Glenshee, Snow Roads Scenic Route. Snow Roads Scenic Route. Photo: VisitScotland. Photo: Laura Taylor More.

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Cairnwell Pass, Glenshee, Snow Roads Scenic Route. Applecross Bypass on the North Coast 500. Photo: VisitCairngorms.com Photo: Iain Sarjeant.

2. South West Coastal 300 overlooking the North Sea to Durness, time exploring the attractions that are all Scotland’s ‘Secret Coast’. The route After a leisurely drive over a long weekend? then down the west coast before returning within easy reach of the route. follow the road to the Kyles of Bute and The South West Coastal 300 is a joy to inland at the Applecross peninsula. Spanning the Malt Whisky Trail, the Loch Fyne. A relatively undiscovered drive. Enjoy over 300 miles of quiet roads The are route offers the opportunity to visit corner of , it features miles of through the beautiful countryside of synonymous with untouched wilderness some of the most famous distilleries in natural splendour. Soak in dramatic Dumfries & Galloway and south Ayrshire. and when it comes to awesome scenery the world such as Glenlivet. Dozens of Highland vistas, romantic glens and Along the way, encounter wonderfully the North Coast 500 does not disappoint. Munros – mountains over 3,000 ft lush forests, and get out from behind secluded stretches of beach and rugged Discover the dazzling white sands of (914.4 m) – also line the route. the wheel to explore charming historic clifftops, colourful towns and villages, deserted beaches like Balnakeil, endless Along the route you can tee off on villages, empty beaches, and plenty and gently rolling hills purple with views of the Atlantic, tantalising islands world-class golf courses including more surprises along the way. heather. Soak in postcard-perfect scattered just off shore, geological marvels Braemar Golf Club, which is known as Follow the Argyll Coastal Route at: www. beauty spots like Sandyhills Bay, browse like the mysterious Smoo Cave, and lofty the highest course in the country. And visitscotland.com/see-do/tours/driving-road- handcrafted artworks in the creative heights along the single-track roads don’t forget the castles. The North East trips/routes/planner/argyll-coastal-route hotspot of Kirkcudbright, and delve through the mountains. is positively brimming with them with into a world of Vikings, saints and Iron Set against this glorious natural Braemar, Ballindalloch and Balmoral 6. The Borders Historic Route Age life at Whithorn, the earliest known backdrop are a great deal of historic sites just a few of the magnificent properties Heading to Edinburgh? Follow the Christian site in Scotland. and other attractions. Along the way you’ll you can visit on your route. Just off the generations of eloping couples before With the romantic ruin of encounter the French-style chateaux route lies the Banffshire coast, home to you to Gretna Green and continue Sweetheart Abbey and gorgeous of Dunrobin Castle, countless ancient some of the finest beaches in Scotland. onwards into the heart of the Scottish gardens, as well as the dazzling starry standing stones at Hill O’ Many Stanes, Feast on freshly caught seafood in Borders, Sir country. Weave skies visible from the Scottish Dark drams of the finest malt at distilleries delightful fishing villages. through a beautiful countryside strewn Sky Observatory on the edge of the Glenmorangie and Old Pulteney, and the Explore the North East 250 at: with immense ruined abbeys, castles Galloway Forest Park; the South West occasional free-roaming Highland coo. www.northeast250.com and country houses which hark back to Coastal 300 boasts splendid locations See more about the North Coast 500 at: a storied and sometimes turbulent past and rich heritage in equal measure. www.northcoast500.com 5. The Argyll Coastal Route filled with fierce clashes, fair damsels Hit the South West Coastal 300 at: Starting just north of Glasgow, the and daring heroes. Swing by Scott’s www.visitsouthwestscotland.com/ 4. North East 250 Argyll Coastal Route is like discovering beloved home of Abbotsford, watch as attractions/southwest-coastal-route The North East 250 is Scotland’s best-kept the romantic Scotland of bygone age. authentic tartan and tweed is woven motoring secret, encapsulating everything Spanning Tarbet to Fort William, it from scratch at Lochcarron of Scotland 3. North Coast 500 that makes Scotland so enchanting. Much follows a coastal fringe of tranquil and the Borders Towerhouse, Scotland’s answer to America’s legendary like the North Coast 500, this is a circular bays and fjord-like inlets on one side and make a very worthwhile stop at a Route 66 has swiftly established itself as route that winds through such captivating with soaring mountains on the other. special independent craft brewery on one of the world’s most iconic driving regions as Speyside, the Cairngorms, Iconic castles, the bonnie banks of the outskirts of Edinburgh. routes. It follows a sweeping loop around Royal Deeside, Aberdeen, the East Coast the Loch Lomond, wildlife sightings Explore the Borders Historic Route at: the whole northern tip of Scotland; from and the Moray Coast. Its condensed and an oyster bar line the route. You www.visitscotland.com/see-do/tours/ Inverness all the way to John O’Groats length makes it perfect for those who can extend your journey by taking a driving-road-trips/routes/planner/ in the north east, along jagged coastline want to spend less time driving and more detour off the main route to discover borders-historic-route

Glenshee road, Snow Roads Scenic Route. Slains Castle on the North East 250 driving route. Photo: Stewart Grant. Photo: Visit Aberdeenshire.

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IN SCOTLAND TODAY

Lord Provost Frank Ross also addressed the hundreds of spectators who had gathered on the Royal Mile to watch. He said: “The Mercat Cross has been at the heart of civic life for centuries. It has witnessed all manner of historic announcements, celebrations and proclamations over the years, including news of the end of World War II and the Queen’s accession to the throne in 1952. “It’s incredibly striking to see images of it surrounded by hundreds of people, horses and carriages and the bustling trade of Edinburgh’s 19th century Old Town. Now, the Mercat Cross is back at its finest after careful restoration of its stonework and repainting. The investment will help to preserve its character for many more years to come.” The Right Honourable , Joseph Morrow, added: “The restoration of the Mercat Cross has been an excellent example of collaborative work. It has been used for different types of Proclamations over a long period of time and I am delighted to be able to take this chance to celebrate the excellent work of restoration which has been done and which enhances the High Street.” Edinburgh’s Mercat Cross is topped with a carved , Scotland’s national animal. The plinth the unicorn sits on is thought to date to the 15th Century but the Second tragic blaze at Glasgow School of Art Mercat Cross in its present form, wasn’t built until 1866, as a replacement to the ragedy has hit one of Glasgow’s Scottish Highlands and Islands Mercat Cross restored original which was demolished in 1756. most iconic buildings, as the airports passengers increase to its former glory In 1885, a new octagonal base with a Glasgow School of Art has raised platform was built underneath the again gone up in flames. This cross, paid for by MP William Gladstone Tis the second such incident to happen whose family hailed from Edinburgh. at the Charles Rennie Mackintosh The Latin inscription above the door was designed building in four years. The composed by Gladstone and reads: school was in the midst of a £35m “This ancient monument, the Cross of refurbishment and repair after the Edinburgh, which of old was set apart for iconic building was devastated by fire public ceremonies, having been utterly in 2014, which resulted in the loss of destroyed by a misguided hand... and the celebrated Mackintosh Library. having been avenged as well as lamented, Muriel Gray, Chair of the Board of Airport executives are celebrating after in song alike noble and manful, by that Governors, Glasgow School of Art (GSA) passenger numbers in the Highlands great man Walter Scott, has now, by said “First we would like to express our jumped 7.4 per cent in a year. Highlands favour of the Magistrates of the City, been deep gratitude to the magnificent Scottish and Islands Airports Ltd (HIAL) said more restored by William Ewart Gladstone.” Fire and Rescue Service, and also to extend travellers than ever before are now using While some other local authority our sympathy to our neighbours, both its 11 sites, which include Inverness, areas have removed their Mercat Crosses residents and businesses, who have also Dundee, Stornoway and Barra. over time, Edinburgh’s refurbished suffered, very much including the beloved Nearly 1.8 million people passed through Mercat Cross will continue to be used for O2 ABC Glasgow. It is an understatement its airports in the financial year to the end ceremonial events, Royal proclamations to say everyone is utterly devastated but of March – a rise of more than 122,000. And and civic announcements. as usual the GSA Executive Team, staff Inverness Airport was responsible for 38 per and students, have been outstanding, cent of that increase after seeing its passenger A major project to restore Edinburgh’s Fashion designer Stella positive and supportive. We now have a numbers increase by almost 47,000. iconic Mercat Cross has been completed McCartney teams up with Beano difficult waiting game until Scottish Fire HIAL said the rise “further illustrated by the City of Edinburgh Council. The Lord and Dandy for new kids range and Rescue Service , Glasgow City Council the airport’s popularity and increasingly Lyon King of Arms and Lord Provost of British designer Stella McCartney has and associated agencies have completed important role as a driver for the Highland Edinburgh led a re-dedication ceremony, produced a new line of kids clothes their investigations into the condition region and economy”, adding that the celebrating the monument’s return to use featuring characters from Scottish comic of the Building. We remain hopeful of as continued success of its Heathrow and after three months of conservation work. icons Beano and Dandy. positive an outcome as possible because Amsterdam Schiphol flights had helped to The project has seen heraldic decorations McCartney said: “The Beano was it is clear that the love for the Mackintosh boost numbers to 875,873. restored and repainted and the asphalt a huge part of my childhood and the and recognition of its importance to HIAL managing director Inglis Lyon said: roof replaced, as well as stonework rebellious and fun nature celebrated in Glasgow and the wider world is shared by “Overall, the past year has been another repointed by local apprentices with a the comic led the design process of the absolutely everyone”. of significant growth in passenger figures traditional lime based mortar. new collection. Following the success of This fire has been deemed even more across the HIAL group, this highlights the Marking the re-dedication, the Royal the Dandy woman’s range last year, we destructive than the last and options for customer demand for our air services and Regiment of Scotland formed a guard were keen celebrate the next generation the building are now being considered the continued support and connectivity they of honour beneath the Cross before a of Beano fans with a sustainable and and the cost of rebuilding Glasgow’s provide for communities. We are constantly proclamation was made by the Lord Lyon practical range for kids who still share that much loved School of Art could be at least looking at ways to attract additional business and prayers offered by the Minister of St ‘Beano’ spirit of these iconic characters.” £100m. However some fear the globally- and continue to invest in our airports to Giles, Calum MacLeod. The ceremony was Her father, Sir Paul McCartney, had a significant building may have to be pulled further improve services and add new brought to a close with a fanfare sounded cameo feature in The Dandy’s final issue down. Restoration work was due to be routes.” The company’s annual results for by HM State Trumpeters and the singing of in 2012 after he said in 1963 it was his life’s completed in February 2019. 2017/18 will be announced later in 2018. the National Anthem. ambition to appear in the comic strip.

Page 18 • The Scottish Banner • July 2018 THE SCOTTISH BANNER 100 years of Scottish photography secured for the nation The MacKinnon collection highlights include: - More than 600 original photographs from the pioneering days of photography featuring work from David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) and Robert Adamson (1821- 1848), James Ross (d.1878) and John Thomson (d.1881), Cosmo Innes (1798- 1874) and Horatio Ross (1801-1886). - Some of the finest work of Thomas Annan (1829-1887) and his son, James Craig Annan (1864-1946) including rare examples of their original albumen prints. - Fine examples of the work of Scotland’s successful commercial photographers including George Washington Wilson (1823-1893) Ships in Granton Harbour near Edinburgh. The Misses Grierson. and James Valentine (1815-1880). - Portraits of Scottish regiments n exceptional collection of historic in acquiring this collection for the Scottish Cameron. Using elements of collage, from the Crimean War by photographs that captures a nation, and for their great efforts in drawing and marginalia, the pages are a Roger Fenton (1819-1869). century of life in Scotland is making this acquisition possible.” The one-of-a-kind celebration of the Fairlie - A series of albums and prints depicting to be shared with the public photographs provide a visual record of Family, from Fife. Reginald Fairlie was life in the main towns and cities from Afollowing a special collaboration between how Scotland has changed physically, the architect of the National Library of the late 1800s and early 1900s. the National Library of Scotland and the socially and economically since the 1840s. Scotland building on George IV Bridge. - Studies of farming and fishing National Galleries of Scotland. More than A major exhibition of the MacKinnon communities in remote 14,000 images dating from the earliest The photographic medium collection will be held at the Scottish villages and hamlets. days of photography in the 1840s through The collection contains an exquisite view National Portrait Gallery next year, with - Scenes of shipbuilding, railways, to the 1940s. The collection covers an of Loch Katrine by William Henry Fox touring exhibitions around the country herring fishing, , whisky expansive range of subjects – including Talbot, who travelled to Scotland in the to follow. The entire collection will also distilling, dockyards, slate quarries family portraits, working life, street scenes, autumn of 1844. Talbot was the inventor be digitised over the next three years and and other working environments. sporting pursuits, shops, trams, tenements, of the calotype, a negative-positive paper made available online. mountains and monuments. Until now, process that was patented around the it was one of the last great collections of world, but, importantly not in Scotland, Scottish photography still in private hands. allowing for free use and experimentation. As a result, early Scottish photographers, /MacArthur Chief John to be The day-to-day lives of such as Hill and Adamson and Ross and The collection was put together by Thomson, were encouraged to take up the Honoured Guest at Longs Peak Scottish Irish photography enthusiast Murray new technology, becoming key figures in MacKinnon, who established a successful developing its potential as both document Festival/Games in Estes Park, Colorado, USA chain of film-processing stores in the and art form within its first two decades. By: Michael McArthur 1980s, starting from his pharmacy in As the photographic medium evolved, Dyce, near Aberdeen. He said: “The Scotland once again was at the forefront rom September 6th through collection covers the day-to-day lives of when, in 1883, Thomas Annan and his son September 9th 2018 Clan Arthur Scottish people both rich and poor, the James Craig Annan secured the British Chief John MacArthur of that Ilk work they carried out including fishing rights for the previously secret process of will be the “Honoured Guest” of and farming, in order to survive, and their photogravure. The photomechanical process Fthe above games. The US branch would social life including sport and leisure. created prints in large editions, revolutionising love to welcome Arthur/MacArthur people These were turbulent times what with the publication and reach of photography. from all over the globe to this exciting industrialisation, shipbuilding, new forms While photography is known for its event and to attend their AGM as a guest. of transport, the social upheaval caused reproducibility, many of the artworks It is a special opportunity for them to by the First World War in Europe and the contained within the collection are unique, meet Chief John and march with Clan Boer War in South Africa. The discovery including daguerreotype portraits and Arthur/MacArthur in the Parade of Clans of penicillin and radiography heralded hand-made albums. One such impressive on Saturday in the city of Estes Park and the development of medicine and the example is the Fairlie album, consisting also on the parade grounds at the Festival pharmaceutical industry in Scotland. I of family portraits and photographs by and to stand with Clan Arthur/MacArthur would like to thank all the people involved known makers including Julia Margaret during the Kirkin’ of the Tartan on Sunday.

Clan Arthur USA Chief John will open the games, give a speech and participate as a judge for the Pipe bands. The best Pipe band will be presented with a Clan Arthur Ed Budlong. Photo: Quaich by Chief John that will be please contact Michael McArthur, presented in perpetuity. Western Regional Commissioner U.S. Estes Park, Colorado is nestled at the [email protected] foot of the Rocky Mountain National Park This will be great chance to meet with and is a perfect site for such an event. The fellow clan members; attend the Scottish Long’s Peak Sottish-Irish Highland Festival games; taste genuine ; is one of the largest and best of its kind in listen to the bagpipers and other Celtic the western area in USA. and Gaelic music. You can also watch the Clan Arthur USA will be holding their dancers; mingle with your distant Gaelic Hardship in the Camp. Annual General Membership meeting at cousins; and enjoy the spectacular and this event. Anyone interested in attending awesome vistas of the Rocky Mountains.

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Clan Donald, U.S.A., Inc. Membership is open only to persons of the blood of Macdonald, however spelled CALLING THE CLANS or of the blood of a recognized associate family or is related by marriage or legal adoption to either of these write for more info and a complete Sept list. Welcome to the Scottish Banner’s Calling the Clans section. Our “Clansified” listing of Diane Carey-Schmitz 1685 Casitas Avenue Scottish Clans, Societies and Clubs. If you would like to add your Clan to these pages Pasadena, CA 91103, please contact your nearest Scottish Banner office for full details. Our address and phone [email protected] numbers are located on page 2. If you are contacting your Clan be sure to tell them you saw them in the Scottish Banner and please support these great community organisations. CLAN DONALD in VICTORIA Clan Chief: Captain Proudly affiliated with Clan Donald Australia, Victorian Scottish A.A.C.Farquharson, MC of Clan Baird Society Worldwide Union and Scots of Victoria Coordinating Group. Invercauld Membership is open to those descended THE CLAN Represented at all major Highland gatherings in Victoria. from Baird, Barde, Bard, Beard, Beaird, Brd, CAMPBELL SOCIETY Bayard, Bardt, Barth and Biard or varied OF AUSTRALIA CLAN DONALD VICTORIA spellings of the name of Scottish origin. President: Mr Norman A. Macdonald In addition to the Society newsletter and the opportunity Contact: Secretary The Secretary Association Australia to associate with fellow clansman members may The Society exists for the benefit of all [email protected] query the Society geneologist. For information write: its members. PO Box 585 Formed in 1934, with membership from many MacDonald, SPRINGWOOD, NSW 2777 All Campbells or descendants of Dr. Debra J. Baird, President McDonald and Macdonald families living in Victoria. or by Email to: [email protected] Campbells and members of Clan 3491 County Road 3459, Haleyville, AL 35565 Membership available, with dance classes for Scottish are most welcome to join the Society. Email: [email protected] Country Dance most Friday evenings in Gardenvale. Regional Directors for Australia Branches exist in NSW, Vic, Qld & SA. David and Patricia Benfell For information contact the CLAN MACDONALD YARRAVILLE CLAN FERGUSSON SOCIETY Email: [email protected] National Secretary Judy Campbell Hon Chief: Mrs Christina Milne Wilson website: www.clanbairdsociety.com Ph: (08) 8260 3637 OF NORTH AMERICA Contact: Secretary One of the oldest Highland Clans, Email:[email protected] [email protected] stretches back in history to the www.clan-campbell.org.au A hereditary clan society formed by the children of founder of Scotland’s monarchy, Norman Hume Macdonald and Johan McKenzie King Fergus 1. Macdonald (nee Munro) who departed Scotland in 1854. President: BJ Ferguson Please address inquiries to: Society B. J. Ferguson, President, CFSNA (North America) 192 Hawthorne Hill Rd, Jasper, GA USA 30143 A society for Campbells, members of recognized septs, their descendants, and their friends. Recognized septs include: Ballantine, Society of New South Wales Inc., Burnett, Burns, Caddell, Calder, Harris, Hastings, Loudon, MacArthur, MacConachie, Australia MacDiamid, MacIver, McKellar, MacKelvie, MacKessock, MacNichol, MacTavish, Duncan Robertson Reid MacThomas, Moore, Muir, Orr, Pinkerton, Thomas, Thompson. People who who bear bear any anyof the of above the abovenames ornames names or of otherany of the Prospective members inquire to: SSeptepts ofnames the Clan of Clan(see adverti Donnachaidhsement from “ C TheA USA Children) are invite d Secretary ([email protected]) toof joinDuncan” with us arein our invited activitie tos tojoin promote in our Clan activities Donnachaidh by , The Society of North America is one of the five “The Children of Duncan” by participating in the various activities Clan Campbell Society, (NA) participating in the Scottish Gatherings held in NSW. authorized national societies operating worldwide under the 963 Plum Tree Lane conducted by Scottish Societies. authority of the Rt Hon. Lady Saltotm, Chief of the Name of Fenton, MI 48430 For information & membership application, contact Fraser, and the Rt. Hon. Lord Lovat, Chief of Clan Fraser of www.ccsna.org Gordon Robertson Lovat. Members receive a newsletter, “The Nessie’ and support in 58/157 Marconi Rd. Bonnells Bay NSW 2264 doing genealogical research. All those bearing the name of Fraser, recognized Septs thereof and their descendants are cordially  invited to contact the following for membership information: Membership extended to all Crawford’s of  Donald Brix Fraser, Kathryn Fraser, various spellings, worldwide. Join to preserve CLAN DONNACHAIDH SOCIETY President Secretary Charles Diman cfsna.com Membership Chairman our legacy & receive assistance with events, Membership invited to all who share the Sept names: 3413 Sunnybrook Dr. heraldry, highland games, forums, DNA gene- Duncan, Robertson, Reid, etc.

Charlotte, NC 28210 alogy, surname history, quarterly newsletter UK: London & Southern Counties * Rannoch & Highlands Email: [email protected] and more. Joanne Crawford, President Canada: Ontario * Western Canada Local Contact: Warren Crawford Australia: New South Wales * Victoria * Queensland * Western Australia [email protected] New Zealand: New Zealand  Europe: Spain  Africa: South Africa USA: Arizona * Carolinas * Florida * Gulf Coast * Mid-Atlantic * New Mexico * Mid-West * Northeast * Northern California * Pacific Northwest * Rocky Mountains * South * Southern California * Texas * Upper Mid-West

Visit our website to learn more about Clan Donnachaidh, our History & Traditions, the Clan Museum in Scotland, the DNA Project, the new Struan Kirk Appeal, & locate a Branch near you. http://www.donnachaidh.com/ Facebook: The Clan Donnachaidh Society Email: [email protected]

Clan Davidson Society in Australia Inc. CHEIF: Grant Davidson of Davidston cordially invites to membership all who bear one of the Clan Membership inquiries Names, and all who can trace their descent from an welcomed from MacGregors ancestor bearing one of these Names: Davidson; of all spellings and Septs Davison; Dawson; Davis; Davie; Davey; Davy; Day; Dye;Dyson; Dawson; Dea; Dean; Deane; Deas; Gregor Grier MacAdams MacNish Magruder Deason; Dees; Dee; Dey; Daw; Dow; Dhai; Kay; McGehee Gregory King Peter Fletcher Keay; Key; Keys; MacDade; MacDaid; MacDavid; Gregg Lecky Black and many others MacDavett; MacDagnie; MacDagny; MacDhai; McKeddie. Jeanne P. Lehr In addition we welcome into membership all who have a family 11 Ballas Crt. association with the . St. Louis, MO 63131-3036 Applications may be made on our website www.clandavidson.org. au or contact the Hon. Secretary Mr Dennis Hill, J.P, P.O. Box 519 Phone: 314-432-28742, [email protected] Baulkham Hills NSW 1755 [email protected] 0431 527 662 website: www.acgsus.org

Clan Dunbar Society Australasia CLAN DONALD of The House of Gospatric the Earl All MacGregors and Septs of our Clan are invited to join one of the oldest Clan Societies Eligible blood or marriage, all descendants of The in Scotland Est 1822. If you live in Australia or AUSTRALIA Gospatric: Dunbar, Clugston, Corbett, Dundas, New Zealand, please contact our clan “under the patronage of the High representative in Australia; Council of the Chiefs of Clan Donald” Edgar, Grey, Heryng, Home, Knox, Nisbett, Peddie, Strickland, Washington, Wedderburn and Frank McGregor High Commissioner Mr Lachlan Macdonald all spelling variations of each name. Also all other Clan Gregor Society State Commissioners PO Box 14 families who were associated with The Gospatric. NORTH HOBART TAS 7002 NSW Mr Lachlan Macdonald Email: [email protected] Qld Mr A. Neil Macdonald Chieftain David C. Dunbar Web. www.clangregor.com SA Ms Therese McCutcheon 16419 Carlton Vale Ct. Vic Mr Norman A Macdonald Tomball, TX 77377-8488 “Royal is my Race” WA Ms Pamela McDonald [email protected] ThereCLAN is no DONALD joy without QUEENSLAND Clan Donald CLANCLAN DONALD DONALD QUEENSLAND QUEENSLAND

Clan Cameron NSW Inc. Commissioner:CLAN DONALDNeil Macdonald QUEENSLAND 2018 Australian Gathering Ph:Commissioner: Neil 0412 Macdonald 090990 Email:Ph: Commissioner: [email protected] 0412 090990 Neil Macdonald Details on website http://www.clan-cameron.org.au Web:Email:Ph: [email protected] 0412 090990 Web:Email: www.clandonaldqld.org [email protected]

President: Alistair Cameron ELIGIBILITY:Web: Thosewww.clandonaldqld.org with the name of ELIGIBILITY: Those with the name of Commissioner:MacDonaldMacDonald Neil Macdonald Macdonald Macdonald McDonald McDonald McDonell, McDonell, [email protected] ELIGIBILITY: Those with the name of Ph: Donald,Donald, OR 0412 of of one one090990 of theof theSepts Septs of Clan of Clan Secretary: Terry Cameron Donald,Donald,MacDonald OR with with a Macdonaldconnectiona connection through McDonald through family family McDonell, Email: lineage. [email protected], OR of one of the Septs of Clan [email protected] Web: www.clandonaldqld.orgDonald, OR with a connection through family lineage. ThereThere is no isjoy no without joy without Clan Donald Clan Donald ELIGIBILITY: Those with the name of MacDonald Macdonald McDonald McDonell,There is no joy without Clan Donald Donald, OR of one of the Septs of Clan Donald, OR with a connection through family Page 20 • The Scottish Banner lineage.• July 2018

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CLAN MACNICOL SOCIETY, INC. Clan Mackintosh Member of The Highland Clan MacNeacail Federation Membership in Clan Mackintosh of North Welcomes persons of the names Clan MacAlpine Society America is available to all persons bearing the Nicolson, Nicol, MacNicol in all spellings name of any of the clans or septs of Clan 3061 Harbor Blvd, Ventura CA, 93001 USA Mackintosh. Associate memberships are also For membership inquiries, contact: available to those interested in the clan. USA CANADA Earl Dale McAlpine - President Jeremy Nicholson Jacques McNicoll Canada U.S.A. P.O. Box 501166 202 Berlioz Apt 203 Mr. David J. Elder Margaret McIntosh, Secretary Atlanta, GA 31150-1166 Verdun, QC H3E 1B8 Canada email: [email protected] 46 Dunvegan Dr. 301 Smugglers View [email protected] Email:[email protected] Chatham, Ont. N7M 4Z8 Jeffersonville, VT 05464 www.clanmacnicol.org www.clanmacnicolcanada.com

Clan MacDougall Society of North America, Inc.

Valerie McDougall Sheri Lambert, Treasurer VP Membership P.O. Box 5399 MacDougall 505-470 Scenic Drive, London, ON MacDowall Vernon Hills, IL 60061 N5Z 3B2

Email: [email protected] Home page: www.macdougall.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/clanmacdougall

Names Associated with Clan MacDougall of Argyll and Clan MacDowall of Galloway Coul MacCoul Macoual Conacher MacConacher Coyle MacCoyle Dole MacDole MacDill Doual MacDoual McDougal Clan MacLellan Dougal MacDougall MacDougald John B. McClellan, Jr. Dougle Mcdougle McDougald Dugal MacDugal MacDugle Treasurer Dowall MacDowal MacDowall 6409 Knollwood Drive Association MacDowell Macdowell McDowell McKinney, TX Clan Macpherson welcomes enquiries from Macphersons Lullich McLullich MacCullich and members of our Associated families. For information MacCulloch McCulloch MacCullagh 75070-6032 contact your local representative, our web site MacClintock MacLintock McLintock Email: [email protected] www.clan-macpherson.org/branches, or the ‘Official MacHale McHoul Mactheul Clan Macpherson Association’ Facebook page MacHowell MacCowan McCown MacKichan M’Gowall MacNamell Invites all MacLellans and their descendants regardless Australia. John L Macpherson Canada. John C Gillies of Craighall Society MacLucas MacLugash MacLuke [email protected] [email protected] of surname spelling to join in preserving our heritage. phone +1 705 4460 280 For all of the name and lineage of Hope Spelling Variations May Vary or Omit the Mac, Mc phone +61 2 4871 1123 Various family names are MacLellan(d), McClellan(d), INTERNATIONAL & USA AUSTRALIA New Zealand. Tim McPherson Scotland. Bill Macpherson [email protected] [email protected] McLellan(d) and Gilliland. President: Convenor: phone +64 3 234 5098 phone +44 1577 830 430 Richard Rex Hope Stephen Hope Visit our website: www.clanmaclellan.net Clan Museum. Curator [email protected] [email protected] USA. Ken Croker [email protected] [email protected] phone +44 1540 673 332 phone +1 559 658 6189 Membership Chair: (1 April to 30 October) Janet Hope Higton [email protected] Clan MacLeod www.clanhope.org www.clanhopeaustralia.org Societies of Australia THE SOCIETY OF Membership is open to MacLeods, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND Septs (of any spelling) and descendants. If your surname is MacRae, Askey MacAndie MacCorkill or you are descended from a Beaton MacAskill MacCrimmon person having the surname Bethune MacAulay MacGillechallum MacRae (any spelling) or that of Caskie MacCabe MacRaild Norie a Sept of the Clan then you are Harold MacCaig MacWilliam Tolmie eligible to join our Society. Lewis MacClure Norman Williamson NSW, ACT & Qld - Peter Macleod 02 4397 3161 Australian Contact: Victoria & Tas - David Dickie 03 9337 4384 Roslyn MacRae 0412 291 054 email: [email protected] South Australia - Nicole Walters 0415 654 836 NZ Contact: Sue Tregoweth email: [email protected] Western Australia - Ruth MacLeod 08 9364 6334 Email: [email protected] Clan MacTavish,U.S.A.  Under the patronage of Chief Steven Clan MacInnes MacTavish of Dunardry invites you to join us    in celebrating our history. Cash, Holmes,  International Association of Clan MacTavish, Stephenson, Stevens, Thompson, MacInnes (Aonghais) Thomson, Todd & other variants.  www.clanmactavish.org    All spelling variants of MacInnes are welcome  worldwide: (Mc)Angus, (Mc)Kinnis, (Mc)Innis, Membership Info:  (Mc)Ginnis, (Mc)Ninch, (Mc)Neish, (Mc)Canse, [email protected] or PO Box 686, Milford, OH 45150-0686  (Mc)Masters, (Mc)Innes, (Mac)Masters   www.clanmacinnes.org  Eric Perry, Director-Member Services 14 Jakes Lane, Dexter, ME 04930; [email protected]

Clan Macnachtan Association Worldwide Sir Malcolm F. Macnaghten of Macnaghten, Bart - Chief of Clan Chairman - Peter McNaughton - 360-686-8451 We welcome membership from all Scots named MacNaughton or any of the Septs on our Website: Contact the Membership Secretary, Vice-Chairman or Regional Commissioners in: Australia - Regional Commissioner - Bruce McNaught +61 7 3266 2047 [email protected] W. Canada - Regional Commissioner - Miles MacNaughton 250-999-9636 [email protected] New Zealand - Regional Commissioner - John Macnaughtan +64 9 441 4984 [email protected] USA - Membership Secretary - Mary Nivison Burton CLAN MATHESON 541-401-2613 [email protected] SOCIETY WWW.CLANMACNAUGHTON.NET Chief of the Clan Major Sir Fergus Matheson of Matheson 7th Baronet of Lochalsh Clan MacNeil Association Invites all Mathesons/Mathiesons or Kin to join our Clan Society. OF AUSTRALIA Contact the Chief's Lieutenants in USA For all enquiries about the clan and U.S.A. membership contact. Malcolm Matheson, III P.O.Box 307, The Plains, VA 20198 SOCIETY Tel: (540) 687-6836, Fax: (540) 687-5569 John McNeil [email protected] of Australia 21 Laurel Avenue, Linden Park, www.clanmatheson.org SA 5065 and New Zealand Email [email protected] Clan Chief: Hon Alexander John Leslie Enquiries invited from Leslies around the world, Society as well as the Septs of Clan Leslie: Abernethy, Bartholomew, Cairney, Lang, Madam Jean Moffat, Chief of the Moore etc in all their spellings. Name and Arms of the Family of J Barrie Leslie Moffat, welcomes Moffats of all Contact:Conta Malcolmct: W. Leslie D.Ua. spellings. Spouses and those legally 117/30343 Rosedal Springe RStreet.d. adopted by Moffats are also eligible Kearney’sGordon Spring,, NSW, Qld,2072, 4350, Austr Australia.alia. for membership. Phone:Phone: +61 +61 2 7 46359418 83582262 [email protected]@ozemail.com.au www.clanleslie.org• www.clanleslie.org Website: http://www.ClanMoffat.org/

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Leonard Montgomery President [email protected] www.clanmontgomery.org

     Australia Group    Clan Chief: The Duke of Buccleuch K.B.E Scottish Heritage USA, Inc. Commissioner: Heather de Sylva P.O. Box 457   Pinehurst, NC 28370  Membership welcome from Scotts and Septs:   Balwearie, Harden, Laidlaw, Geddes & Langlands. Welcomes membership of anyone interested in the exchange of  people and ideas between Scotland and the United States.  Info: Secretary, PO Box 320, Maclean, NSW, 2463  Write or phone for our free brochure.         E: [email protected] www.scottishheritageusa.org W: clanscottaustraliagroup.moonfruit.com email: [email protected] (910) 295-4448 Scottish Associations and Societies

Australian Scottish Communtiy (Qld) Inc. Promoter of International Tartan Day, Brisbane, Queensland PO Box 3188, South Brisbane 4101 Bi-Monthly Newsletter, All things Susan Cooke tel: 02 6355 4158 Murray Clan Society Scottish Email: [email protected]  Clan Shaw Society All persons of Scottish Descent of North America Invites membership or inquires from all: welcome. www.aussie-scots.org.au,Email: ,,('! /'+*. $+- )#) #-.&', -# '*1'/#" $-+) Shaw, Ayson, Adamson, Esson, MacAy, [email protected], Ph 07 3359 8195 0-- 34. *" /&# $+((+2'*% (('#" $ )'('#. MacHay, Shiach, Sheach, Sheath, Seith,  (*# 1#.'*.)+-#0*.)+-#(#)'*%+- 3 Seth, Skaith, Scaith and Shay. 0--'## 1#.',#-3,#-) '() (#) (( )# ( *", ("'*% Mike Shaw Scottish Gaelic Society of Victoria * * " !+*/ !/ */&#!+*/ !/ Secretary www.scottishgaelicsocietyvic.org '((' )0-- 3 + #-/0-- 3 2403 West Cranford Founded in 1905 +-"#-+-#.!#*/  ) -'"%#1#   Denison, TX 75020  ), #(('1#-   3+)'..'*%   Scottish Gaelic Choir: Wednesdays 10:30 am to

Clan Sinclair Australia 12:30 pm during school terms at The Kildara Centre, rear of Membership and enquiries from all Sinclairs, 39 Stanhope Street, Malvern. Sinclair Septs and Sinclair descendants Language Class: Wednesdays 7:00 to 8:30 pm Among the most ancient families of Scotland. If For further info contact during school terms at the Celtic Club, 420-424 you are a descendant of Pollock, Pollok, Pook, Polk, Polke, Paulk, Poalke, Poulk, Poolke, Pogue President Secretary William Street, West Melbourne. - you are cordially invited to contact: WayneSinclair Liane Sinclair Wayne Sinclair Liane Sinclair Contact Maurice Fowler 0408 223 277 A. D. Pollock, Jr. (004173) 9 814673 4717461 (03)0410 9348 045 2663263 PO Box 404 Email: [email protected] Greenville, KY 42345 e-mail: [email protected] E: [email protected] The Society of St. Andrew

Caledonian Club of Scotland Association, Inc. (Queensland) Limited Invites membership from Skene and Of ABN 30 093 578 860 septs Cariston, Carney/Carnie, Florida West (Sarasota, FL) Currehill, Dyas, Dyce, Dyer, Hall, Invites membership of all people of Halyard/Hallyard, MacGalliard, Scottish descent or association. Rennie, and Skains. 2017 Spring Schedule: Feb. 4: Scottish Games AlDorna McGalliard Comp Jack Vaudin, Hon Secretary, P.O. Box 3233 Mar. 25: Thistle Ball The Secretary,South Brisbane,P.O. Box BC,3233, QLD, South 4101, Brisbane, Australia BC,. PrePresidentsident Apr. 2: Kirkin’ O’ Tartans 273103 Amy Sumners Clegg Alle Drivey QLD, 4101, Australia. www.standrewsociety.com May 6: Annual General Luncheon www.standrewsociety.com Summerville,Gray, GA, SC 31032 29485 Summer Socials: TBA Email:Email: [email protected] [email protected] FOUNDED 1974 Contact: Robert Howard, President 941-376-5514 FOUNDED 1974 St. Andrewís Society Email: [email protected] St. Andrewís Society ClanRoss Clan in Australia Ross in Australia Web site: www.caledonianclub.org of Vermont for information contact Commander Des Ross The Stewart Society The clan is active again in Australia of Vermont for information contact Welcomes Stewarts, however spelled, by name, P.O. Box 484 (ByCommander Des Ross(By appointment David Ross Bt Chief of and Balnagowan) appointment David Ross Bt Chief of Clan Ross and Balnagowan) birth, or descent, from all over the world. Annual Essex Junction,P.O. Bo xVT 48 405453 We would be pleased to hear from anyone Gathering in historic, Stewart-related properties in We would be pleased to hear from anyone with Ross Clan Scotland. Newsletter. Annual magazine. Essex Junction, VT 05453 with Rossheritage and interest. Clan heritage and interest. Invites membership inquiries. contact Commander Des Ross at Please inquire: Contact: [email protected] Des Ross at Invites membership inquiries. The Secretary David Campbell - President (802) 878-8663 [email protected] M 0403 830 853 53 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2HT, Ken Duthie JP Director of Publicity M 0418 806 172 Tel/Fax 0131 220 4512 www.stewartsociety.org David Campbell - President (802) 878-8663 Victorian Scottish Union Society Established 1905 of Australia Umbrella group representing the interest The Society welcomes membership of all of Scottish Clans and Societies in Victoria. bearers of the Sutherland name and any of their septs- (Cheyne, Duffus, Frederith, Affiliated Clans & Societies Mowat (or any variation of the spelling). Marie Hodgkinson Ballarat Highland Dancing Geelong Scottish Dance 212 MacKenzie Street Toowoomba, 4350 Balmoral Highland Dancing Society Glenbrae Celtic Dancers Queensland, Australia Begonia City Highland Dancing Society Glenmaggie Scottish Folk Festival e-mail: [email protected] Brunswick Scottish Society Kilmore Celtic Festival http://goldenvale.wix.com/clansutherlandaus Illinois Saint Andrew Society Clan Donald Victoria Maryborough Highland Society Mornington Peninsula Caledonian Society Illinois’ oldest, largest Macdonald Yarraville Inc Scottish Country Dance Victoria Society organization and owner of The Scottish of Australia The Club of Melbourne Clan Sutherland Society Home. A unique “assisted living” Australia Warrnambool & District Caledonian Society of North America, Inc. facility located in a beautiful wooded Association Warrnambool Caledonian Highland Dancing Society The Society cordially invites membership of Clan Sutherland Australia Robert Burns Club of Camperdown Inc all Sutherlands (however the name is spelled) setting. and of the associated families: Cheyne, For more information on Society membership and Jan Macdonald: Secretary Duffus, Gray, Frederith, Mowat and Oliphant. Victorian Scottish Union programs or The Scottish Home, contact Richard Langford T: 03 9360 9829 M: 0438 584 930 1106 Horshoe Lane Gus Noble, President E: [email protected] Blacksburg, VA 24060 e-mail: [email protected] 708-447-5092 or www.chicago-scots.org www.victorianscottishunion.com

Page 22 • The Scottish Banner • July 2018 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Neanderthal brought back to life with help from Dundee expert Rings and Caesar in Planet of the Apes was would have been unable to care for himself used to create the first scientifically accurate, so this provided the first evidence that 3D working avatar of a Neanderthal. Neanderthals looked after each other.” Neanderthals corrects many myths Much-maligned ancestors about our much-maligned ancestors. With the help of cutting-edge CGI According to recent scientific research, technology, the show’s producers were able the Neanderthals are not the knuckle- to reconstruct a Neanderthal hunt, model dragging apemen of popular imagination their voices 40,000 years after they died out and around 2% of most people’s DNA is of and – to see how well Neanderthals would blend in to modern society – put Ned amongst commuters on a busy tube. According to recent scientific “Having reconstructed Ned’s face, I research, the Neanderthals am as excited as anyone to see how he looks in the final show and to see what the are not the knuckle- producers have done with him,” said Dr Rynn. “I have been bursting to tell people dragging apemen of popular about this since the filming took place almost a year ago but was sworn to secrecy imagination and around 2% so I’m relieved I can finally talk about the of most people’s DNA is of n expert in facial reconstruction Neanderthal skull found in Iraq to Dr Rynn show. I was working from a plastic cast from the University of Dundee for his expert evaluation. He was able to of Ned’s skull, which tells a story in itself. Neanderthal origin. has helped bring Neanderthals reconstruct the face using clues from the Ned was in his 30s when he died, but back to life for a major new BBC bone structure of the Neanderthal, known the skull shows he had received a severe Aseries. Dr Christopher Rynn, from the as Ned, allowing us to admire the face of head injury when he was in his teens. The Neanderthal origin. While Neanderthals University’s Centre for Anatomy and one of our ancestors – one that hasn’t been severity and location of the injury means were smaller than modern humans they Human Identification, has featured seen for more than 50,000 years. he would likely have been blind and deaf were also much stronger and faster, in Neanderthals: Meet Your Ancestors A team of scientists then began the on the left side, while the withered nature abilities that were used to ambush and alongside Hollywood star Andy Serkis, laborious process of working out what of the right side of his skeleton means he bring down vast animals like woolly co-founder of digital performance- Ned’s body was like, building up layers would have been quite severely disabled. mammoths. New archaeological research capture studio The Imaginarium. from the fossil skeleton to create a digital Despite this, he lived for another 20 years is also revealing intriguing details about The show is presented by Ella Al- Neanderthal. This being completed, the after his injury and was found with other Neanderthals mental capacities through Shamahi, a rising star in the field of same type of motion capture technology that members of his family. He would have evidence of Neanderthal art and their Neanderthal research who takes a fossil helped Serkis star as Gollum in Lord of the been unable to look after each other He penchant for dressing in vulture feathers. Branklyn’s rock star blue poppy in bloom

blue poppy grown at the National China, Bhutan, Sikkim, Burma, India and Trust for Scotland’s Branklyn Nepal, was brought back to Britain by Garden in Perth has taken a top plant hunters in the early 20th century. gardening accolade. The plant – They adapted readily to our Scottish Aa Himalayan blue poppy species called climate and have thrived in the sheltered Bobby Masterton - was awarded the first surroundings of Branklyn Garden. class certificate from the Royal Horticultural Head Gardener Jim Jermyn said: “This Society’s Joint Rock Committee. is a fantastic accolade for the garden and Named for the creator of the we are proud to play our part in protecting exceptional Cluny House Gardens near this important plant collection for the love Aberfeldy, the plant is currently at its of Scotland. The plants are looking at their blooming best at Branklyn Garden. best at the moment. If you want to catch our award-winning Bobby Masterton, and The finest two acre garden in the country our other beautiful blue poppies in bloom, The Perth garden has been described as it’s best to visit as soon as you can.” ‘the finest two acre garden in the country’ Branklyn Garden is one of 38 gardens and is well-known for its fabulous and landscapes under the protection of collection of meconopsis, or blue the National Trust for Scotland, the charity poppies, with 5 species and 25 cultivars that is working towards a vision where on site. The species which originated in Scotland’s heritage is valued by everyone the high mountains of Tibet, south-west and protected for future generations.

The Scottish Banner • July 2018 • Page 23 THE SCOTTISH BANNER SCOTTISH BANNER EVENTS Having a Clan event? Know of a highland games? Know where the pipes will be playing? Let Scottish Banner readers know of Scottish events both near and far with the Scottish Banner events page. Send us your community event, concert, meeting or anything with a Scottish twist! Please submit events either online at www.scottishbanner.com/events or email [email protected]. Please ensure you submit your event in the exact format we use below, events not submitted in this way cannot be guaranteed to be printed. Events will run both in print and online and is a free service.

11 Glen Osmond, SA - Seymour College Highland 27 Auckland - Ceilidh Club 15 - 12 St Andrews - St Andrews Summer School AUSTRALIA Dancers and Pipe Band Scots Night St Davids in the Fields Church, 202 Hillsborough Rd. All Each Week of Summer School gives dancers the A night of music, dancing, games and haggis are welcome to play, dance, or even call ceilidh dances and opportunity for classes, social dancing, a Ceilidh JULY 2018 tasting, featuring Celtic trio Telenn Tri in the Sports certainly just to watch. Info: [email protected] or two with the input of experienced teachers and 1 Fremantle, WA - Scottish Heritage Centre, 546 Portrush Rd. Dress with a touch of 28 Wellington - Film: The 39 Steps (based on great musicians, at St Andrews University. Info: Centre of WA Kirking of the Tartan tartan. Book at www.trybooking.com/389537 John Buchan’s book published in 1915) www.rscds.org/article/summer-school-2018 The Kirking of the Tartan church service is being held at 11 Argenton, NSW - Hunter Valley “It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that all 15 Stonehaven - Stonehaven Highland Games 2pm at Scots Church, Cnr Parry Street & South Terrace. Scots Club Caledonian Night contemporary escapist entertainment begins with The 39 Traditional Highland games with open and This is an important event which celebrates Scottish Ceilidh night with Scottish Highland and Country Steps.” In 1935 Alfred Hitchcock, drawing on characters heavy events, the Grampian light events traditions and culture. For bookings for the afternoon dancing, music by Stringfiddle and Newcastle and situations created by the action novelist he adored, championship, dancing, track events and more. tea to follow in the church hall ($5 a head), phone 08 RSL Pipe Band at Club Macquarie. Info: Robyn concocted a classic movie-thriller recipe, starring the Info: www.stonehavenhighlandgames.com 9457 1945 (Shirley Oliver) or 08 6142 2269 (Helen Cole). Smith 02 4959 5123 or www.hvsc.org.au then-current heartthrob Robert Donat, also a young 19 - 21 Inverness - Inverness Summer Camp 2018 1 Nationwide - Happy Tartan Day 16 - 19 Boondooma, QLD - Scots in the Bush Peggy Ashcroft. (B&W of course: not a ‘scary’ Hitchcock The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland will Celebrate your Scottish heritage and wear some tartan The Boondooma Highland Games at historic Boondooma film!) with the Victoria University of Wellington Scottish be bringing its young members to Inverness to today on the anniversary of the Repeal Proclamation of Homestead with Celtic music, stalls, ceilidh, Scottish Interest Group. Info: www.wellyscots.wordpress.com conduct a Piping and Drumming Summer Camp 1782 annulling the Act of Proscription of 1747, which food, pipe bands and Kirkin O’ the Tartan. Info: 07 at Millburn Academy, Diriebught Rd. Info: 0141 had made wearing tartan a punishable offense. 4168 0159 or www.boondoomahomestead.org.au AUGUST 2018 353 0220 or [email protected] 3 Auckland - Scottish Celtic Music Group 1 Rochedale, QLD - Piobaireachd 19 Novar Gardens, SA - Clan MacLeod 21 - 28 - 16th Clan MacLeod Parliament Monthly on the first Friday at St Luke’s Church, Group Queensland Social SA Annual Luncheon Clan Macleod members from across the globe descend 130 Remuera Rd. All instruments welcome to read Come along and play a tune or just listen and A convivial lunch with panoramic overlooking the on Dunvegan Castle. For further information, contact the through favourite Scottish tunes and dance sets. discuss the classical music of the Highland Bagpipe striking greens of Glenelg Golf Course. Scottish dancers, Parliament Co-ordinator on: parliament@clanmacleod. Info: John Hawthorn: [email protected] at Rochedale State High School, 249 Priestdale pipe music, Clan displays, haggis and guest speakers org or www.clanmacleod.org/world-gatherings/ Rd. Info: 07 3397 4512 or www.qhps.org entertain guests during the annual Clan MacLeod 4 Auckland - The Bay City Rollers clan-parliament-2018.html To register: http://www. luncheon. Book your tickets for individuals or tables featuring Les McKeown 2 Adelaide, SA - Adelaide Pipers’ Gathering clanmacleodparliament.org/2018-booking.html of 8 through Nicole Walters, Secretary, Clan MacLeod One of Scotland’s top music exports live at the Piping event. Info: Jack Brennan 21 Inverness - City Of Inverness Highland Games SA. Info: 0415 654 836 or [email protected] Powerstation as part of the World Hits Tour [email protected] Traditional events in the world’s oldest Highland games or see www.cmssa.org.au/calendar-of-events.html 2018. Info: www.metropolistouring.com 3 Milton, QLD - Brisbane Smallpipe Session stadium. Info: www.invernesshighlandgames.com 25 Toowoomba, QLD - Toowoomba 10 Auckland - Scottish Fiddle Club Fiddle Club Night Piping event. Info: Malcolm McLaren on (07) 25 Traigh, Arisaig - Arisaig Highland Caledonian Society & Pipe Band Ceilidh 7:30 PM - 11:00 PM at St Luke’s Church, 130 Remuera Rd. 3820-2902 or [email protected] Come along & enjoy a night of Scottish entertainment. Games & Clan Donald Gathering Info: www.freewebs.com/aucklandscottishfiddleclub Traditional Highland games with piping, dancing, heavy 6 Hobart, TAS - CoHHPB Winter Gathering Listen to the pipe band, watch Highland dancing 28 Wellington - The Dramatic story of and field events. Info: www.visitfortwilliam.co.uk Presented by the City of Hobart Highland Pipe display & participate in Scottish Country Dancing. Comrie, a beautiful village in Band with bagpipes, whisky tasting and fun at No experience required as all dancers are called. 28 Halkirk - The Halkirk Highland Games Margaret Kamester, a friend in Canada, has written the Hobart Function and Conference Centre. Cost of the evening is $10pp & Under 13 free, school- Traditional Scottish Highland games, started over 100 years about this village and the WWII POW camp at nearby Info: [email protected] or 0418 107 175. children over 13 $5.00 & a plate of food for supper at ago and are now one of the most popular sporting events Drayton Hall. Info: Margaret Bond 0429 700 217. Cultybraggan, where a very special man, Herbert in the area. The games also host the annual gathering of 7 Tusmore, SA - Tartan Day Celebrations Sulzbach, achieved wonders in the de-Nazification of Clans Gunn and Sinclair. Info: www.halkirkgames.co.uk Enjoy a day of Scottish entertainment to celebrate Tartan 25 Kirwin, QLD - Barrier Reef Highland prisoners, and how one of them, Heinrich Steinmeyer, Day. Experience Scottish music, dancing, bagpipes, Dancing Championships rewarded Comrie with amazing generosity for the 29 St Andrews - St Andrews Highland Games haggis and more at Burnside Library, 401 Greenhill Rd. Highland dance competitions at Emmaus Hall, Ryan humane treatment accorded to the prisoners with Watch all the Cabers and stones fly across the field Info: 08 8366 4280 or [email protected] Catholic College, Canterbury Rd. Info: 0400 932 346. the Victoria University of Wellington Scottish Interest at one of the top Highland Games in Fife at Station Park. Info: www.standrewshighlandgames.co.uk 7 Exeter, SA - Tartan Night 31 Red Hill, QLD - Community Ceilidh Group. Info: www.wellyscots.wordpress.com An evening of Scottish Country dancing. BYO. Shared Bring your friends and family for a night of joyful 31 Auckland - Ceilidh Club AUGUST 2018 Basket Supper at The Port Adelaide Caledonian dancing to Brisbane’s premiere Scottish ceilidh band St Davids in the Fields Church, 202 Hillsborough Rd. All 3 - 25 Edinburgh - The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Society Hall, 189 Semaphore Rd. Info: 0481 581 298. at Red Hill Community Sports Club, 22 Fulcher are welcome to play, dance, or even call ceilidh dances and Experience one of Scotland’s greatest events staged on Rd. Info: www.facebook.com/CeilidhClan certainly just to watch. Info: [email protected] 7 Fremantle, WA - International Tartan Day Ball the Esplanade of Edinburgh Castle. Info: Telephone: Presented by The Scottish Masonic Charitable Foundation +44(0)131 225 1188 or www.edintattoo.co.uk of WA Inc with music, food and friendship. A night where 3 - 27 Edinburgh - Edinburgh Festival Fringe people of the community can come together as one NEW ZEALAND SCOTLAND The largest arts festival in the world at venues and enjoy some Scottish traditions at the Esplanade JULY 2018 across Edinburgh. Info: www.edfringe.com Hotel. Info: 0433 707 716 or www.smcfwa.com.au 1 Nationwide - Happy Tartan Day JULY 2018 3 - 27 Edinburgh - Edinburgh International Festival 7 Aberdeen, NSW - Aberdeen Highland Games Celebrate your Scottish heritage and wear some tartan 1 - 6 Dalabrog, South - Ceòlas Summer School The International Festival present a programme featuring Fun for all the family with Clans, Highland and today on the anniversary of the Repeal Proclamation of Expert tuition in piping, fiddle, song, dance and finest performers and ensembles from the worlds of country dancing, pipe bands, Tartan Warriors, 1782 annulling the Act of Proscription of 1747, which the Gaelic language are offered over a backdrop dance, opera, music and theatre. Info: www.eif.co.uk Kilted Dash and more. One of Australia’s top had made wearing tartan a punishable offense. of community events, including cèilidhs, concerts and guided walks. Info: www.ceolas.co.uk 5 - 18 Perth - Clan Oliphant Gathering Scottish events at Jefferson Park. Info: 02 6540 6 Auckland - Scottish Celtic Music Group & Conference 2018 1300 or www.aberdeenhighlandgames.com Monthly on the first Friday at St Luke’s Church, 2 - August 24 Isle of Skye - Sabhal Mòr Summer Gaelic Courses For over 40 years Sabhal Mòr Ostaig has offered Oliphant Clan Gathering & Conference will intersperse 7 Melbourne, VIC - City of Melbourne Highland 130 Remuera Rd. All instruments welcome to read presentations and visits to places of historic Clan interest courses in the Gaelic language and in traditional Pipe Band 120th Anniversary Gala Ball through favourite Scottish tunes and dance sets. from around Perthshire to the Borders. The programme music with instruction in Gaelic, Gaelic song, fiddle, This special event for the Band will include canapes and Info: John Hawthorn: [email protected]. will include presentations by lyon court and a leading button-box and accordion, photography and a range drinks on arrival, two course dinner with entertainment 12 - 15 Ashburton - 18 & Over and Under 18 New genealogist as well as lectures, discussions and break-out of other specialised subjects offered by a talented by Borderline Kaylee and the City of Melbourne Highland Zealand Highland Dancing Championships sessions on Clan history. Info: www.new.clanoliphant.org Pipe Band. Info: www.melbournepipeband.com.au team of instructors. Info: www.smo.uhi.ac.uk Highland dance competition and events 8 - 12 Campbeltown, Kintyre - Mull 8 - 15 Shoal Bay, NSW - Australia Winter School at Ashburton Trust Event Centre,211 Wills 7 - 8 Carham - Carham 1018 New of Kintyre Music Festival RSCDS Hunter Valley Branch is hosting the 43rd St. Info: www.piping-dancing.org.nz 1000 year anniversary and re-enactment weekend of the Traditional and contemporary Scottish and Australian Winter School at Shoal Bay. Come and enjoy 13 Auckland - Scottish Fiddle Club Fiddle Club Night battle that fixed the border. Info: www.carham1018.org.uk Irish music. Info: www.mokfest.com a fun filled week of Scottish country dancing with great 7:30 PM - 11:00 PM at St Luke’s Church, 130 Remuera Rd. 14 - August 22 Unst, Shetland Islands - UnstFest 8 Portree, lsle of Skye - Isle of Skye Highland Games teachers and musicians. Info: www.hvws2018.com Info: www.freewebs.com/aucklandscottishfiddleclub Britain’s most northerly festival on Britain’s most Don’t miss out on this traditional Highland Games with 11 - August 2 Nationwide - The Bay City 13 Wellington - Whisky Tasting Evening northerly island is a family-friendly affair with fiddle some of the finest piping talent in Scotland and from Rollers featuring Les McKeown Have a dram at the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club, workshops, go kart races, film screenings and live around the world. Info: www.skye-highland-games.co.uk One of Scotland’s top music exports returns for a 103 Oriental Parade. Info: www.rpnyc.org.nz music worth travelling for. Info: www.unstfest.org 10 - 19 Pitlochry - Clan Donnachaidh nationwide tour of Australia as part of the World Hits 20 - 21 Waipu - Art ‘n Tartan Wearable Art Awards 15 - 12 St. Andrews - The Royal Scottish Country Society 2018 AGM & Gathering Tour 2018. Info: www.metropolistouring.com A wearable art event celebrates heritage, community, Dance Society Summer School 2018 Clan Donnachaidh (the Robertsons) are holding a 14 Mackay, QLD - Mackay Bluewater Fling 2018 and creativity, using tartan as a symbol of connection Scottish country dance courses, events special Gathering in their Perthshire heartland with Hosted by Mackay & District Pipe Band with pipe at Waipu Celtic Barn. Info: www.waipumuseum.com and fun. Info: www.rscds.org a variety of events. Info: www.donnachaidh.com bands, highland dancers, and lots of fun at Bluewater Quay. Info: www.mackaypipeband.com.au 15 Melbourne, VIC - Celtic Piping Club Session Piping session, 3pm - 5:30pm, upstairs at The Answers to Scottish Genealogical Research Last Jar - 616 Elizabeth Street (cnr Queensberry DID YOU St). Info: [email protected] Scotword on Page 7 19 - 22 Melbourne, VIC - Melbourne Tartan Festival Celebrate Scottish culture at a variety of Scottish KNOW? Across: 8) Nation, 9) Oilfield, Let us build themed events across the city. Info: 0417 125 013 or www.melbournetartanfestival.com.au The Scottish Banner is 10)Galloway, 11) Dollar,12) Ideal, your Scottish 21 Brisbane, QLD - International Tartan Day 14) Bap, 15) Apron, 18) Chanter, Free event at King George Square with massed piped the #1 source for Scottish bands, Scottish Highland and Country dancing, music and 20) Thistle, 23) Glens, 24) Pap, Family Tree! vocalists and Scottie Dog mascots. With Clans, Scottish events in Australasia! 25) Fiery, 29) Crieff, 31) Aberdeen, food & wares and more. Info: www.aussie-scots.org.au With hundreds of Scottish 23 Toowong, QLD - Pipers Society Jimmy 33) Montrose, 34) Tocher. Ron Dempsey Durham Memorial Solo Competition events listed from around 2/4 March competition for young players who Down: 1) Tabard, 2) Gill, 3) Knowe, General Delivery have not previously won the event at Regatta the world and updated Hotel. 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Page 24 • The Scottish Banner • July 2018 THE SCOTTISH BANNER University of Glasgow research suggests Robert Burns may have had bipolar disorder in 2015, say they have some evidence to we can use Burns’s letters as a source of it hasn’t been an easy task given our suggest that Burns may have suffered evidence, in place of having the face- subject has been dead for more than from bipolar disorder, with the Bard’s to-face interviews a psychiatrist would 200 years. We hope that the possibility moods cycling between depression normally have. We have pinpointed that Scotland’s national bard, a global and hypomania. This might explain the evidence which showed bouts of icon, may have had bipolar disorder writer’s periods of intense creativity, increased energy and hyperactivity, and will contribute to discussions on the temperamental personality and unstable periods of depression and a withdrawal links between mental illness and love life. The research looked at blocks of from day-to-day life. Further work to creativity. This work might also help to letters across four separate time frames take account of the conventions of letter destigmatise psychiatric disorders such over nine years from 1786 to 1795, testing writing in the 18th century, who Burns as bipolar disorder and depression.” the use of the poet’s letters as a source of was addressing his letters to and the Professor Gerard Carruthers, Co- evidence relating to his mental health. different activities he was involved in at Director of the University’s Centre for the various stages of his life is still being Robert Burns Studies, said: “Robert Burns Blue devilism carried out. But we now believe Burns was a complicated man, with an amazing Moira Hansen, the principal researcher may have had what we would recognised catalogue of work produced in a short on the project, said: “Blue devilism was today as bipolar disorder. We will carry lifetime before he died at 37. Today he the term Burns used to describe periods out further in-depth analysis to create a holds a fascination not just for Scots but of depression which he suffered, periods mood map of his life to chart these highs a worldwide audience. The fact that which affected his life and his work – not and lows linking it to what was happening Scotland’s national bard may have had something you would automatically both in his private and public life to judge bipolar disorder is part of the telling and esearchers at the University of expect of someone with a worldwide how it impacted on his writing.” understanding of all aspects of the bard’s Glasgow suggest Robert Burns reputation for knowing how to enjoy story to reveal a more accurate picture of may have had bipolar disorder, himself – and something that our project Complicated man the real Robert Burns.” according to a paper published is properly studying for the first time. Professor Daniel Smith, Professor of The project called Melancholy and Rin The Journal of the Royal College of During his lifetime and since his death, Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow, low spirits are half my disease: Physical Physicians of Edinburgh. More than Burns has often been viewed as a tortured said: “Today there is greater awareness and mental health in the life and works of 800 letters and journals have helped poetic genius which helped to explain of the importance of mental health Robert Burns, officially started in October the academics to analyse the mental his reputation as a lover of life, women issues and we hope our project can be 2015 and is due to be completed in 2019. state of Robert Burns. The project also and drink. But it is only in the last two part of this debate. Carefully assessing It considers three main sections. The first looked beyond Scotland’s national bard’s decades that it has been mooted he may the mood and behaviour of one of examines the personal writing of Burns correspondence to his relationships and have suffered from a mood disorder.” Scotland’s iconic figures, using both – his letters, journals and notebooks – day-to-day life in a bid to establish if he She added: “This project is using modern medical and literary expertise, is a new looking at the evidence which relates to had a psychiatric disorder. day methods to track and categorise the approach that helps to paint a picture his physical and mental health, as well as Now the Glasgow academics carrying bard’s moods and work patterns. The of his mental health and how it affected taking account of testimony from those out the four year project, which started work published in this article shows that both his life and writing. Obviously who knew him in life. industry raises its glass to renewable targets

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Depending where you are IN THE SCOTTISH KITCHEN July is either midsummer or midwinter, so spoil yourself with these tasting treats.

1 sprig fresh thyme, leaves stripped 2 tbsp. tomato purée salt and freshly ground black pepper For the topping 750g/1½ lb. potatoes, peeled and chopped 225g/8oz. parsnips, peeled and chopped 2 tsp creamed horseradish 75g/2½oz. butter 55ml/2fl oz. milk Method: Preheat the oven to 190C/170C Fan/Gas 5. Heat the oil in a large pan. Add the onion and carrot and cook over a medium heat for 5 minutes, or until soft. Add the minced beef and cook for 3 minutes, to brown. Add the tomatoes, purée, beef stock, bay leaf and thyme. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Season. Meanwhile, to make the topping, boil the potatoes and parsnips in water until soft. Drain and mash with the butter and milk. Stir in the horseradish and season with salt and pepper. Spoon the meat into an ovenproof dish. Top with the mash and bake for 30 minutes, or until golden brown. Method: Method: Oatcakes Scotch pancakes Preheat the oven to 395 F/200 C/Gas Cut salmon in four and score the skin. Ingredients: 6. Place the mashed potato in a large Put in a non-metal dish. Zest and juice baking bowl and add all the other two lemons. Halve remaining lemons. 115g/4oz. self-raising flour ingredients to form a sticky dough. Roll Combine zest and juice with wine, thyme, 2 free-range eggs out the dough on a floured surface to rosemary, dill, one-third of the oil and 100ml/3½fl oz. milk approximately 1/2-inch thickness. half the parsley. Season. Preheat oven to 2 tbsp. icing sugar, sifted Cut into saucer sized rounds then 180C/350F/Gas 4. sunflower oil, for brushing score a cross into the dough to mark 4 Pour marinade over salmon and leave 115g/4oz. blackberries, to serve equal wedges. Grease a baking sheet for 30 minutes. Remove salmon, drain maple syrup, to serve with butter and bake the scones for 15 off marinade and fry, skin side down, for Method: minutes until golden brown and risen. 1 minute. Turn and seal other side. Lay Preheat a large heavy-bottomed frying The scones can also be cooked on the salmon, skin side up, in a roasting tray, pan. Place the flour into a bowl and stove top on a griddle or heavy-based sprinkle with salt and roast for about 10 make a well in the centre. Break in the frying pan. Cook the scones 5 minutes minutes or until just cooked through. eggs and whisk, adding a little milk as on either side until golden and risen. Put on serving dish, drizzle with Ingredients: you go, to form a smooth batter, then remaining oil, sprinkle with remaining 110g/4oz. medium oatmeal, plus more for whisk in the icing sugar. Brush the pan Crispy herbed salmon parsley and serve with lemon halves. dusting with a little oil then add large spoonfuls 110g/4oz. plain flour of the batter. Cook for 1-2 minutes, until Burns Cottage pie 55g/2oz. lard, dripping or poultry fat small bubbles appear on the surface, 1 level tsp salt then turn over and cook for another 1-2 cold water minutes, until lightly golden. Divide the For the glaze pancakes between two warm serving 1 egg plates. Top with the blackberries, drizzle 1 tbsp. milk over the maple syrup and serve. 1 tsp. sugar Method: Tattie Scones Mix the oatmeal and flour in a bowl. Rub in the fat, add the salt and mix in just enough cold to form a soft but not tacky dough. Roll out the dough on an oatmeal- strewn board. Cut out circles with a scone cutter. Alternatively, cut out a dinner-plate round, and quarter it. Mix together the egg, milk and sugar to form a glaze. Cook the oatcakes on an ungreased medium- hot griddle, without turning them. The moment the first batch are in place, brush them over with glaze - it will turn to a shiny Ingredients: coating as they cook. When fully cooked, remove. Store in an airtight box. 600g/1¼lb. salmon fillet, with skin Ingredients: 4 lemons Ingredients: 500 g/1lb. potatoes (cooked and mashed) splash white wine 1 tbsp. olive oil Red Scotch 30 g/1 oz. butter (melted plus extra for greasing) 2 tbsp. thyme leaves 1 large onion, chopped Shake together 25ml/1fl. oz.measure of ½ tsp. salt 2 tbsp. rosemary leaves 2 carrots, chopped Scotch Whisky, tomato juice, juice of half a 1 medium egg 2 tbsp. dill fronds 560g/1¼lb. beef mince lemon, dash of Worcestershire sauce, dash 125 g/4 oz. flour (plus a little extra for 300ml/½ pint olive oil 400g can of tomatoes of Tabasco sauce. Fill a glass with ice and rolling out) 2 tbsp. chopped parsley 290ml/10fl oz. beef stock pour the mixture over and decorate with 1 tsp. baking powder. Maldon sea salt and cracked black pepper 1 bay leaf freshly ground black pepper.

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Glasgow gets a new piece of street Homecoming for Harry Benson art to mark Mackintosh anniversary at Pollok House exhibition work is seminal. He managed to pre-empt important events in world history and capture them in his inimitable style through his photographs. Harry really got under the skin of his subjects, tapped into their spirit, and had an uncanny ability to be in the right place at the right time. This exhibition is a celebration of Benson coming home adisson RED has commissioned to Glasgow. There hasn’t been a display of Art Pistol Projects and famed Harry’s work in his home town for years, Rstreet artist Rogue-one, A.K.A and we’re excited to host this event at Pollok Bobby McNamara, to create a House in the months ahead.” photorealistic mural dedicated to the The ’s Presiding city’s favourite son, Charles Rennie Let Glasgow Flourish – Two Girls (Harry Benson, 1972). Officer, the Rt Hon Ken Macintosh MSP, Mackintosh. A gift to the people of said: “Scotland’s own Harry Benson has Glasgow to mark the opening of the th mages by Glasgow-born witnessed the Berlin Wall being built and captured many of the defining moments of hotel and the 150 anniversary of the photojournalist, Harry Benson CBE taken down, and was on the Civil Rights modern history. From JFK, to Bill Clinton famous architect, designer, and artist, have gone on display at Pollok House, James Meredith March with Martin Luther and Donald Trump, his images have without the new mural is set to become a must- featuring some of his most iconic King Jr. The exhibition is the first to take doubt shaped the way we look at the world. see for anyone visiting the city. The Iphotographs of world history and rarely- place in a newly-created gallery space within “I can vouch that the Harry Benson: artwork has been painted on a 60ft by 40ft wall overlooking the city’s Clutha seen shots of his home city. Harry Benson Pollok House, which is already home to an Seeing America exhibition was one of the Bar, it features a portrait of Mackintosh first travelled to the USA with The Beatles impressive art collection. The gallery project most popular ever to take place at the looking through a stained-glass window. in 1964, during their inaugural tour of the received grant funding from Museums Scottish Parliament and I am delighted In recent years there has been an country. His pictures have since appeared Galleries Scotland and the Foyle Foundation. that part of this exhibition will now be explosion in ‘graffiti style’ murals created in Life, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, Among the pieces on display at Pollok House shown at Pollok House.” by talented spray paint artists. The array while he has also taken more than 100 will be Harry’s photographs of President Harry Benson: From Glasgow to America of vibrant street murals can be found on cover shots for People magazine. Bill and Hilary Clinton, President John F. will take place until the end of the year and is walls, gable ends, and hoardings across During his illustrious career, Harry has Kennedy and Charles de Gaulle, Her Majesty being held in areas of Pollok House previously the city. Back in 2008, Glasgow Council chronicled some of the most important Queen Elizabeth II, Eddi Reader, and a variety inaccessible to the public. Sections of the decided there was a need to ‘rejuvenate moments in modern history. He has of scenes from Glasgow. Part of the collection property that were staff accommodation have streets and revitalise buildings and photographed every U.S. President from is on loan from the Scottish Parliament. been transformed into gallery space, which vacant sites that looked a bit tired’. The Eisenhower to Donald Trump, was feet away will be used for temporary exhibitions of art, first piece of artwork was commissioned Defining moments of modern history from Senator Bobby Kennedy the night history, and stories about Pollok House. The that year and the city’s street art offering he was assassinated, was in the room with Fritha Costain, Business Manager for exhibition of Harry Benson’s work will be the has increased rapidly ever since. President Richard Nixon when he resigned, Glasgow and West said: “Harry Benson’s first in a regular series. Newly digitised images tell story of rural Scotland in 1970s online will make them significantly more accessible to the public so that more people can enjoy them. They are like a time machine that takes us back to bell-bottoms, the Bay City Rollers and Ford Capris. Although these surveys were commissioned to document buildings, they recorded so much more. We would urge the public to have a look at these collections online by visiting Canmore, where we have created The digitisation of the Scottish Countryside a gallery of some of our favourite images Commission and C-Listed buildings survey from both surveys. This is a fantastic are part of a significant investment by Historic introduction to the Scottish Countryside Environment Scotland over the last financial Commission and C-Listed Buildings year to increase the volume of historic From bell-bottoms to the Bay City Rollers, public can now access surveys. From there, they can also search photographic material accessible online. thousands of images of Scotland previously unavailable online. through both collections and experience To view the collection this time capsule.” see: www.canmore.org.uk wo extensive surveys of rural Partners, the conclusions were published in Scotland undertaken during the Buildings in the Scottish Countryside, 1985. 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troublesome region brought the resentment 13 - King Alexander III crowned at Scone. 1249 of James V. Armstrong was tricked into attending a royal hunt only to be seized on 14 - Scottish National War Memorial his arrival. He faced the king, and volubly opened. 1927 remonstrated with him that he had “asked 14 - Cavalry units from the Scottish grace at a graceless face”.Legend has it that Engager army clashed with Lambert’s the trees at Carnlanrig, where Armstrong Parliamentarian cavalry at Penrith. The and his followers were hanged, withered, Engager forces were commanded by the and none have grown there since. 1530 Duke of Hamilton, who made several 24 - The Princess Royal formally opened the mistakes in planning and executing his Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National 1 - The reconvened Scottish Parliament 6 - John Paul Jones, hero of the US Navy, born Kirkbean, Dumfries. 1747 advance south, and quickly made themselves Park, Scotland’s first national park.2002 was officially opened. After a devolution unpopular with the local population for June 24 - The Battle of Harlaw took referendum showed resounding support for 6 - The Piper Alpha oil platform in their plundering and excesses. 1648 the reconvening of the Scottish parliament, the North Sea was rocked by a huge place at Inverurie. Nearly 2000 Highland plans were put into motion for the creation explosion. Blasts continued on the and Crown soldiers fought over an area of of such a body. The parliament would sit platform throughout that night, and by land called the Earldom of Ross. 1411 in the Church of Scotland Assembly Hall in morning 167 men had died. 1988 25 - King James I born. 1394 Edinburgh. Elections were held on May 1 - John Knox became the first Protestant 1999 and the first sitting of the body took 7 25 - Charles Macintosh, inventor of the plastic minister appointed in Edinburgh. place on May 12 of that year. The official 1559 mac, died. Macintosh discovered the first opening on July 1 saw the Queen transfer full rainproof cloth in 1818, by joining two sheets constitutional powers to Edinburgh. 1999 of fabric together with dissolved indiarubber. Although Macintosh is best known for his eponymously titled coats, he made significant 15 - National Portrait Gallery for advances in many fields of chemistry. As well Scotland opened in Edinburgh. 1889 as inventing a revolutionary bleaching powder 16 - David II, son of Robert I (the with , he also discovered a Bruce) married Joan, sister of Edward fast method of using carbon gases to convert III (he was 4, she was 7). 1328 iron to steel, and devised a hot-blast process which produced high quality cast iron. 1843 th 7 - The novel Waverley, by Sir Walter Scott, 16 - 13 Commonwealth Games opened in Edinburgh. 1970 26 - James IV responded to pleas for was published. Waverley was Scott’s first assistance from France and declared war on novel, and written mainly as a way of proving 1 - Seal granted by Edinburgh Town 16 - A Shetland fishing tragedy occurred England. Aside from assisting the French, who himself a superior literary talent to Byron. Council to the Incorporation of Barbers leaving 105 fishermen dead as their had been invaded by an English army, James Although it was published anonymously as and Surgeons to practise their craft. The boats got lost at sea. 31 Shetland sixern was also aggrieved at England’s seizing of two a safety net against its failure, it was an open organisation is now known as the Royal boats perished leaving devastation Scottish ships and the non-payment of part of secret who the author was. Scott needn’t College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 1505 to the island community. 1832 the dowry for his wife, Margaret Tudor. 1513 have worried: the book was a runaway 17 - , first bank to be 27 - Battle of Killiecrankie in which Graham 1 - Proscription Act Repealed, thus success and Scott became regarded as established by an Act of the Scottish of Claverhouse (Bonnie Dundee) leading allowing again the wearing of tartan and the leading author in Europe. 1814 an army of Highlanders in support of the the carrying of weapons (banned as a Parliament, opened. 1695 8 - King Alexander II died on Isle Jacobite cause, defeated King William’s result of the 1745 Uprising in support 18 - John Paul Jones, naval hero of the of Kerrara, Oban Bay. 1249 army under General Hugh Mackay. 1689 of Bonnie Prince Charlie). 1782 American Revolution, died; he was born in Kircudbrightshire in 1747. 28 - The Royalist Marquess of Montrose 2 - Treaty of Perth, Norway renounces 1792 beat General Baillie in a skirmish which was claim on the Hebrides. 1266 - Birth of Jim Watt, Scottish boxer. 18 part of the English Civil War at Dunkeld, After a successful amateur career, Watt 2 - Dumfries reached a temperature of Perthshire. For a war of positions the turned professional in 1968 and quickly 32.8C (91F), the highest recorded. 1908 Highlanders had neither aptitude nor rose to the top of the lightweight division inclination, and at Dunkeld the greater 2 - Scottish architect Sir John Burnett died. before adding British and European titles part of them went home. 1645 His most famous commissions include the to his collection during the 1970s. 1948 Royal Institute of Fine Arts; the Alhambra, 29 - Mary, Queen of Scots, 19 - Battle of Halidon Hill in which and the Athenaeum, all in Glasgow, and married Lord Darnley. 1565 Sir Archibald Douglas (guardian of the North front of the British Museum, the 9 - Queen’s Park Football Club, David II) routed by Edward Balliol and 29 - King James VI (aged 13 months) crowned Institute of Chemistry, and the extension first senior football (soccer) club Edward III. Scots losses were nearly at the Church of the Holy Rude, beside Stirling to Selfridges, all in London. 1938 in Scotland formed. 1867 600, English losses 14. 1333 Castle, following the abdication of Mary, 3 - John Logie Baird transmitted Queen of Scots, five days earlier.1567 9 - Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, the Chief 19 - A.J Cronin, the Scottish novelist, first colour television.1928 of Clan Fraser, Scottish aristocrat and was born. Cronin is most fondly 3 - The Clyde shipyards suffered their worst soldier was born. Fraser, a Second remembered as the creator of the hugely accident when the SS Daphnecapsized at World War hero, played a key role in the popular character, Dr.Finlay. 1896 her launch. The packet steamer had been development of the commandos and was 20 - Battle of Inverkeithing. Royalist built by the Linthouse yard of Alexander actively involved in both the Dieppe Raid, force supporting Charles II failed Stephen and Sons and immediately sank into 1942, and D-Day landings, 1944. 1911 to halt advance of army of Oliver the River Clyde, taking the lives of the 195 10 - King James III born at Stirling. 1451 Cromwell heading for Perth. 1651 workmen on board. It was later discovered that the 460-ton ship had little stability 10 - Glasgow Rangers signed Maurice 21 - Robert Burns dies in Dumfries, aged Johnston. One of the last bastions of Scottish 37. The cause of death appears to have when it was launched, and rolled over 30 - First edition of the long-running Protestant sectarianism, Rangers shocked been heart failure, probably brought on forty-five degrees, taking huge amounts of Beano comic was published. 1938 water through a large deck opening. 1883 many of its when the club, by the hard physical work done in his under manager Graeme Souness, signed youth. His widow, Jean Armour, gave 30 - The beginning of the work-in at John - Lanarkshire-born James Keir Hardie 4 Maurice Johnston from the French club, birth to a son on the day of her husband’s Brown’s Clydebank Shipbuilding Yard, became the first socialist to win a Nantes, for £1.5m. Johnston had not only funeral. However, Maxwell, named after organised by stalwart Socialist, Jimmy Reid. seat in the UK Parliament. 1892 played for arch-rivals Celtic, but was the Burns’s doctor, died in infancy. 1796 This was in response to the Ted Heath Tory first well-known Roman Catholic player to government’s plans to liquidate the yard - 5 - Final run of the Edinburgh to 22 - The army of the English King sign for Rangers in modern times. 1989 Reid exposed these as unethical. 1971 London mail coach (a route which Edward I, using longbows for the first was taken over by rail). 1847 11 - Robert the Bruce born at Turnberry time, defeated the Scots led by Sir William 31 - Cigarette advertising banned 5 - Border reiver, John Armstrong of Castle, Ayrshire. After the death of at Battle of Falkirk. 1298 on television in Britain. 1965 Gilnockie, and 50 of his men were hanged Wallace, Bruce led the campaign to regain , culminating 23 - Charles Edward Stuart landed 31 - The first edition of Robert Burns’ poems, for blackmail by James V. Armstrong was a on Eriskay at the start of the 1745 The Kilmarnock Edition, was published by well-known laird in the Borders area, and in his stunning victory at the in June 1314. 1274 campaign. 24 1567 - Mary Queen of John Wilson of Kilmarnock, under the title although a frequent marauder in England, he Scots abdicated and the young James of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. It is not known to have attacked in Scotland. 12 - Darien expedition left VI acceded to Scottish throne. The Earl cost three shillings and the entire print run of However, his wealth and power in a for Panama. 1698 of Mar was appointed regent. 1745 612 copies sold out within a month. 1780

Page 28 • The Scottish Banner • July 2018 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Piping Live! rolls out the tartan carpet to welcome fans from around the world will feature performances by the very best international acts, from countries including New Zealand, Oman, Canada and Scotland and will also see the return of the fiercely contested Master Solo, International Quartet and Pipe Idol competitions. In addition, there will be daily performances, family fun and the hugely popular Street Café will return to The National Piping Centre for the week.

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Page 30 • The Scottish Banner • July 2018 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Celebrating 120 Years at the City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band his year, the City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band celebrates its 120th anniversary, having originally been established as Tthe South and Port Melbourne Thistle Society Pipe Band around 1897-8. It is also the centenary of the band gaining independence from the Society, forming the Melbourne Highland Pipe Band in 1918. In its early years, the Band catered to recent Scottish migrants wishing to continue their national traditions in their new city, with players recruited as they the development of the band in the shrink. Before long, it became difficult from 10 years old to some in their 70s, and landed at the Port of Melbourne. The following decades. It was not traditional to maintain gender separations in local both men and women are welcome. band achieved many successes early on, to include women in a pipe band, and pipe bands, with smaller groups in rural The Band proudly wears the becoming the most successful competition indeed it may have been the decision of regions already becoming mixed-gender MacLennan tartan, in honour of Mr band in Victoria in the early 20th century. the Thistle Society to create an all-female organisations. In 1986, likely influenced Lewis McLennan who was Pipe Major Yet this would all change come 1914. piping group that led to the existing band by changing times and circumstances, of the Band from 1919 until 1934. The The Great War had a significant impact breaking away. Minutes from a 1924 the City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band has maintained its long historical on the band. Of the 26 members, 22 meeting of the new Melbourne Highland Band made the decision to accept female links with the Royal Australian Regiment enlisted. Seven did not return home. One Pipe Band in fact outline their strong players into the band. Association (Vic), continuing to play at such member was Corporal Gordon Inglis. objection to ladies being involved. their annual ANZAC reunion. Just that January, Inglis was lauded by the The band today On Saturday July 7th, 2018, the City Footscray Chronical for winning the Dewar Today, the City of Melbourne Highland of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band will Trophy in the New Year’s Day Highland Pipe Band has 2 bands competing at Grade celebrate its 120th anniversary with a Gathering in Sydney; the success earned Today, the City of Melbourne 3 and Grade 4 levels, plus a development Gala Ball to be held at the Collingwood the 22-year-old the title of Australian group. It boasts 55 members, 15 learners Town Hall in Melbourne. Readers are Amateur Champion. He was deployed Highland Pipe Band has 2 and many guest and social players. The invited to come and join us in celebrating to Gallipoli in 1915. It was there on 26th bands competing at Grade current membership includes members this auspicious event. Tickets are April that Inglis suffered a terrible injury, from a variety of ethnicities, including: Greek, available for purchase from the band’s particularly for a piper: a bullet wound to 3 and Grade 4 levels, plus a Dutch, Thai, South African, Filipino, French, website, or by phoning the Band. his left lung and arm. He died the following Chinese, British, New Zealand and Australian For information: Lyn Vanos 0400 588 921 year in a British hospital, a piper playing development group. It boasts backgrounds. The ages of members range or www.melbournepipeband.com.au over his grave in fulfilment of his passing wish. Amongst his recorded possessions 55 members, 15 learners and was a complete set of bagpipes. many guest and social players. Back home in Melbourne, the Thistle Ulva Buyout success Society playing group remained active and continued its achievements even with severely diminished numbers. In October Regardless, the newly christened 1915, the Port Melbourne Standard recorded group maintained its successes well the band’s win in the South Street Pipe Band into the middle of the century. The late and Military Contest, also noting how 11 1950s – early 60s saw the Band peak, with members at the time were at the front. further National and State Championship Crucially however, as the war progressed, victories at Grade 1 level. The band the band became accepting of women willing became affiliated with the City of to support the remaining players. The Herald Melbourne in 1978, adopted a new name, wrote on March 14th , 1918 of how three the City of Melbourne Highland Pipe women from the Thistle Society, “would Band, and was granted the right to use the march at the head of the Society’s male band city’s . in the St Patrick’s Day procession on Saturday”. However, the period after saw a gradual decline in the scale of pipe band music Celebrating 120 years in Australia. The emergence of new, This relationship with female pipers alternative recreational and musical was to become a significant factor in options meant player numbers began to

By: Rosalind Jones of neighbouring Mull as a community cottish Banner readers will be enterprise, aims to repopulate Ulva pleased to learn that the Ulva Buyout and regenerate its local economy campaign was successful! Impressed after decades of depopulation. The with the Mull campaigner’s business campaign attracted global interest Splans for the Isle of Ulva, in addition to and future would-be Ulva residents the £37,224 they’d raised, the Scottish are already, hopefully, applying. government awarded them £4.4 million Symbolically the longest day, 21st from the Scottish Land Fund. This generous June, was chosen for the handover of grant enabled the campaigners not only to ownership. A day of light in which to offer to buy Ulva from owner Jamie Howard celebrate an incredible achievement. but also bid for Ardulum House, Howard’s Against the odds, the beautiful home, used as a hostel for holidaymakers Isle of Ulva has been saved for all to and not originally included in the buyout. enjoy. Thanks are given to Scottish Banner readers who supported Incredible achievement the Ulva Buyout. You have helped The campaign, led by the North West change Scottish history! City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band, the Champion band of 1950. Mull Community Woodland Company For more details: (NWMCWC), which already owns part www.facebook.com/ulvabuyout

The Scottish Banner • July 2018 • Page 31 THE SCOTTISH BANNER The Shoreline ProjectBy: Judy Vickers Reconnecting Edinburgh to the coast examples of coast regeneration from around the world such as the Billion Oyster Project from New York Harbour in the United States. The projects spotlighted in the exhibition include the Greenferry Trust’s work in South Queensferry to transform an “eyesore” area known as Vennel Park or Hawthorn Bank into a community garden and a project to restore the walled garden of Granton Castle. “The castle was built in the 1470s, but was demolished in the 1920s. The walled garden remained but was earmarked for demolition and development. This group saved it from development and turned it into a community garden. They’ve got lots of volunteers and hold open days, and it’s become a wildlife haven so it’s really a story of what a community can do,” said Charlotte. Another group featured is the Wardie Bay Beachwatch. “Wardie Bay is a very small beach near Granton Harbour and here volunteers have been collecting statistics Newhaven water heritage. on what’s washed up, in particular plastic pollution.” Plastic from a mass public Think Edinburgh and its castle, Royal Mile or Old and New Towns, however many be surprised it also boasts rubbish pick was used to spell out a giant SOS on the beach, which was filmed by a 27km of coastline. A new project is being launched this summer to celebrate Edinburgh’s water heritage with drone and will feature in the exhibition. At conservation projects, nature trails and an exhibition at the city’s Botanic Gardens as Judy Vickers explains. Newhaven, the tradition of fishwives’ singing will be celebrated with recordings of ancient hink of Edinburgh and what springs and mudflats, and undertake practical Portobello, where people flock for day trips, songs by a choir. “The Newhaven fishwives’ to mind? The Festival when the city’s conservation work and much more. good coffees and nice meals, and there are choir was actually once very popular,” said streets are thronged with performers Communities will tell their own stories, others, the area between Silverknowes and Charlotte. “They toured the UK and used to from all over the world during the including at a major summer exhibition at Granton in particular, which is an area of sell out town halls. Their songs were about Tmonth of August? The beautiful architecture the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. multiple deprivation, where there are derelict fishing and their work. The Newhaven of both the Old and New Town which has The Shoreline project has been developed and brownfield sites, and there are the Community Choir is recording some up- gained Edinburgh the title “the Athens of the by Karen Chambers, vice chair of Scottish sewage works at Seafield. The challenge of to-date versions of these songs. They will North”? It’s fascinating history as a medieval Wildlife Trust; historian and researcher Elspeth the project is to get people to think of them as be part of the exhibition and we also hope stronghold of kings and queens and a Wills, and Leonie Alexander, urban biodiversity one joined-up Edinburgh shoreline.” to have some performances at the Botanics pioneer of the Enlightenment? project officer at RBGE who wanted to see The Edinburgh shoreline was first settled and down by the shoreline.” Edinburgh’s profile raised as a coastal city. by people 10,000 years ago at Cramond. Designs for a mural along an 80ft A coastal city It is now being headed-up by RBGE and its Industries such as herring fishing – there rundown graffiti-covered coastal wall in Scotland’s capital is, of course, all partners in Edinburgh Living Landscape were once 1000 boats at Newhaven with a Seafield will also be on display – the actual these things and many more. But it is (ELL). The Shoreline’s ultimate aim is to deliver population of 4000 – flourished along with mural, celebrating Edinburgh shoreline, also a coastal city, a fact which is often a legacy for the human, animal and plant populations of oysters. “We once had very rich will be created over the coming months. overlooked by both visitors and locals communities along the way to Joppa. oyster beds at Newhaven which we have lost And groups from right along the shore, alike. In fact, Edinburgh has a surprising 27 because of the water quality,” said Charlotte. including schoolchildren, are creating km of shoreline from Port Edgar to Joppa. The Edinburgh shoreline Leith Docks excelled at shipbuilding and knitted, felted and crocheted sea creatures, Now a new project, Shoreline, aims Project manager Charlotte Johnson, based the port was key to Edinburgh’s prosperity. from herring to seaweed. “We are hoping to change all that. Schools, community at RBGE, explained: “Over many decades, Other industries abounded, such as the gas to have hundreds of different species for groups and individuals are joining together Edinburgh’s relationship with the sea has works at Granton, the tower of which is still the exhibition,” said Charlotte. to regenerate natural habitats along weakened, to the detriment of its citizens, a landmark. Leisure was also important – And she said she hoped the 12-month Edinburgh’s coastline. By connecting with landscapes, plants and wildlife. Our coast is now families flocked to Portobello beach with its project would inspire more projects that scientists and conservationists, people a strange mix of areas of dereliction, industry, heated outdoor swimming pool which only would give the shoreline as vibrant a future who live, work or play close by have been forgotten beaches, with new developments closed in the 1970s. “The wealthy people of as it has a past. “The history and heritage given the chance to celebrate the area’s and fresh possibilities. Rather than just another Edinburgh who wanted to get away from the is so rich but at the moment you can’t even relationship with the sea, and the plants initiative laid out by the professionals, this grime of the city built their summer homes cycle the whole shoreline, it’s so disjointed. and animals to be found along the coast. is an opportunity for Edinburgh’s coastal there,” explained Charlotte. One day it would be wonderful if we could Over the next 12 months, they will search communities to work with scientists, artists and And the area is still rich in wildlife. have something like the Fife Coastal Path and for little-known species, explore rock pools filmmakers to explore and celebrate the rich Leonie Alexander said: “There is so much to really be able to celebrate this amazing asset.” cultural and natural heritage. It will consider the discover along the Edinburgh coast, from the omnipresent relationship of the shoreline with rich bird life to amazing rock pools, sea grass the city and to forge new openings for a greener beds, remnant coastal plants hanging on to future. The role of RBGE and its partners will sea defences and pink grasshoppers. There is be to support communities in developing their also the potential for so much more.” own ambitions for this coast.” She explained that the Edinburgh coastline The coast’s culture, starts from Port Edgar by South Queensferry, history and biodiversity along to the privately owned Dalmeny Estate, An exhibition, also called Shoreline, opens then to Cramond, Silverknowes, Granton, at the Botanics this month (July). Running Newhaven, Leith, Seafield, Portobello and until September, it will feature six projects finishes at Joppa in the east. “And all these running along the Edinburgh shoreline as The Shorline at Granton. areas are so incredibly different. There are well as displays on the coast’s culture, history Portobello coastline. areas there which are quite affluent, such as and biodiversity. It will also feature inspiring

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