Show us your Vintage Kilt Photos

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A group of wedding guests about fifty years ago. My wife Ann is the wee lass in the centre, wearing a white dress, but look at the smartly dressed young lad in the kilt with the wee toaty sporran.

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Some VERY decorated pipers



Probably the best bagpipe photo ever taken

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Christmas Party at the Silchar Club, Assam, India, 1947

From the recollections of Alan Lane.

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Rex.

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From the Journal of Lt. Col. John Scott, as presented by the South African Military History Society:

Scott in Mess Dress. Scarlet mess jacket with yellow facings
and silver lace and buttons. The sporran was a personal item
and was not the regimental pattern. Taken about 1890.


Scott in the uniform of a mounted field officer. Black boots,
scarlet doublet with silver lace and yellow facings. Blue
glengarry bonnet with red and white dicing. Taken about 1890.

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Rex.

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Canadian botanist John Davidson (1878-1970), c. 1911:

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Rex.

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Penguin Piper

A series of striking images remain from [the second voyage of William Speirs Bruce’s Scottish National Antarctic Expedition], including a classic photo of a piper in a kilt, apparently serenading a penguin on the ice.

"Bruce dressed up Gilbert Kerr, the ship's piper, in full Highland gear and got him out on the ice and produced a penguin," said David Munro, [of the Scottish Royal Geographical Society].

Piper Kerr serenading a
penguin, 25 March 1904.

"The idea was they were going to play it jigs, strathspeys, reels, slow marches, etc, and see if the penguin had any reaction.

"It stood unmoved. Of course, it's largely unmoved because it's tied to the foot of the piper."

Regards,
Rex.

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The Canoe Boys

In 1934 two young journalists, Alastair Dunnett and Seamas Adam, paddled
from Glasgow to Skye. Wearing singlets and kilts, and with only the inner tube
of a car tyre for safety, they negotiated their flimsy sea-canoes through the
challenging waters of Scotland's west coast.

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Rex.

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Deer Stalkers

A group of Scottish men about to set out on a deer-hunting expedition in Perthshire, Scotland, 1869.

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Rex.

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From North East (Scotland) Folklore Archive's page on Local Worthies, Donald Dinnie, accomplished highland athlete:

Born in Balnacriag, near Aboyne, Donald Dinnie was a legend of the nineteenth century Highland Games, regarded by many as Scotland’s greatest ever athlete.

A stonemason by trade, he became a professional athlete in his late twenties, winning his last prize in the Highland Games at the age of 76! Having toured Australia, America and South Africa, Dinnie retired in 1913 after winning eleven thousand prizes and twenty-six thousand pounds in prize money. Many of his medals are now missing, perhaps having been sold when he fell on hard times towards the end of his life. Some are held in a collection by Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, the earliest dated 1859 for "heavy" events at Glenisla and Perth, and the latest dated 1884 for Club Swinging in Brisbane, Australia.

His classic "around the head" hammer throwing style, a style of throwing he developed in the 1850s, was adopted by many of his competitors and is still used by toady's games athletes.

Adding to Dinnie’s fame is an extraordinary event which took place over the River Dee during his teenage years. In assisting his father to repair the Potarch Bridge, near Kincardine O’Neal, Dinnie displayed super human strength by carrying two huge boulders totalling 785lbs in weight across the bridge. The ‘Dinnie Steens’ are now legendary. Nobody has ever equalled this amazing feat without the aid of a harness.

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Rex.

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Not many fish, but plenty of photo op:

1891: Prince Albert Victor (1864 - 1892), Duke of Clarence, wearing a kilt
and sporran, holding a fishing rod.


Edward, Prince of Wales (1841-1910) later King Edward VII of England, with a fishing party
at Derry Lodge, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 1891. Left to right: unknown, unknown, the
Duke of Fife, Mr Samson Jnr, the Duke of Clarence, the Duchess of Fife, Julia Stonor,
Sir Christopher Sykes, the Prince of Wales, unknown, unknown.


Edward, Prince of Wales (1841-1910) later King Edward VII of England, with a fishing party at
Derry Lodge, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 1891. Left to right: unknown, Prince George (1865 - 1936,
later King George V), Julia Stonor, the Duke of Clarence, the Duke and Duchess of Fife, the
Prince of Wales, Mr and Mrs Samson, Sir I. Mackenzie, Lord Londonderry, Mr Samson Jnr., the
Duchess of Manchester, Sir Christopher Sykes and Sir Christopher Teesdale.