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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.

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Just to prove that you don't have to be Scottish to wear a kilt, here we have a descendent of the House of Hesse, HRH Henry of Battenburg, and son-in-law of Queen Victoria by way of her youngest child, Princess Beatrice.

How about that leopard sporran?

Regards,
Rex.

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From a biography of Gen. William Westmoreland at Vietnam.com

William Westmoreland attended the World Boy Scout Jamboree in
England during the summer of 1929.

While there, he acquired this kilt from a Scottish scout.

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Rex.

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From the Atlantic Canada Pipe Band Association, the Ceilidh Girls' Pipe Band:

The Ceildih Girls' Pipe Band circa 1956 in Halifax

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Rex.

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Just to prove that you don't have to be Scottish to wear a kilt, here we have a descendent of the House of Hesse, HRH Henry of Battenburg, and son-in-law of Queen Victoria by way of her youngest child, Princess Beatrice.

How about that leopard sporran?

Regards,
Rex.

I love those pictures...and the man. Just ordered an Argyll jacket like that inspired by that picture...

But what hat is that? It looks like a cross between flat cap and breton cap?

And the idea he was mocked in a kilt is laughable...he looked amazing.

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And ye didny even mention tha BE-ARD!

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I love those pictures...and the man. Just ordered an Argyll jacket like that inspired by that picture...

But what hat is that? It looks like a cross between flat cap and breton cap?

And the idea he was mocked in a kilt is laughable...he looked amazing.

Notice the kilt pin / brooch ! ith:


Best,

Robert