Author: Iain Duncan

More on the Australian Ladies’ Visit to Scotland

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Reading Duncan Watson’s article on the Australian Ladies’ visit reminded me that I had a couple of very old cuttings about them from the Campbeltown Courier. There’s information that intimates their visit, followed by a fairly comprehensive report on it. I have copied the reporter’s scripts to the letter for authenticity, though some wording is a bit quaint. By Iain Duncan The first cutting from the Courier, dated October 9, 1926,…

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Scotland’s Traveller Pipers and Their Link to Campbeltown

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Former RSPBA historian Iain Duncan has followed up on Andy Hunter’s piece on traveller pipers published last week It’s a strange thing how few photo images of the Travelling People were taken in times past. It’s possible that back then precious few would own a camera, even the ‘old’ box or bellows camera, which were a devil to focus. My friend Angus Martin has retrieved the only ‘traveller’ image he…

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