Day: 24 June 2016

SLoT Win Euro Pipe Band Championship

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St Laurence O’Toole from Dublin are the new European Champions after a high quality contest today at Grant Park, Forres, in the north of Scotland. In second place were Field Marshal Montgomery with Inveraray third and Shotts fourth. The drumming prize went to Inveraray. The full Grade 1 result was: 1 SLoT 2 FMM 3 Inveraray 4 Shotts 5 S Power 6  Spirit of Scotland Drumming: Inveraray Judges: Robert Mathieson, John McCarlie, David…

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PP Editor’s Blog: Euro Champs/ George Ackroyd/ Summer School/Braemar

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Solo piping adjudicator Archie Maclean has sent the following: ‘Enjoyed the interesting article on P/M George Ackroyd. Please find attached, a rather creased and tattered photograph cutting from the ‘Oban Times’ (circa. 1939) under the heading ‘Pipe-Majors of the Highland Brigade’.  ‘P/M Ackroyd is standing fourth from the left, the only one wearing a feather bonnet. The accompanying text has him as Pipe Major G. Ackroyd (Depot) Black Watch.  You’ll make out ‘big’ Donald…

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