while looking at dixiecats post http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/1...946/index.html it reminded me of a site Ive had in my saved sites folder for sometime now ,id been looking for old videos of steel works and found the website but being so long ago and before i was a member on xmarks it was just one of those sites we looked at watched a few videos and then saved, its a wee holy grail for members on here i reckon with respect to kilts and sporrans so folks here is a few videos i thought id share with you to give you a wee taster of the site chances are you've seen some of these before this one is a 1955 diy video on how to make a sporran http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=0958 making bagpipes 1967 http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=6832 Visit to Clydeside by King George V between September 17th and 20th, 1917. A shipyard in Port Glasgow and Colville's steel works in Motherwell are on his ports of call and theres a chance one of my ancestors had been in that very steel works when he attended working away http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=3358 Events at the 1950 Crieff Highland Gathering, the first held after 1939. http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=0935 'WEDDING OF THE 4TH MARQUESS OF BUTE 1905 http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=6774 and here`s one for auld jock whom i remember mentioning this fine game more than once 'SHINTY IN THE HIGHLANDS' in 1934 http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=1972 so folks have a wee peek at those videos and enjoy what my country was like in days gone by, its up to us folk to keep these memory's alive , here the site in all its glory with 67 videos to view of Scottish live from pantos to the canals http://ssa.nls.uk/browse.cfm?sid=03....=50&from_row=1
What an incredible site! If I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when I found the British Pathe site, this one's brought me back again! Thanks!
Wow. Thanks.
Garrett "Then help me for to kilt my clais..." Schir David Lindsay, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis
Great stuff. Thanks for posting some of your favs.
Ken "The best things written about the bagpipe are written on five lines of the great staff" - Pipe Major Donald MacLeod, MBE
Great site - thanks so much for the link it looks like hours of fun!
Thanks for the links. I sure enjoyed the sporran making one.
Past President, St. Andrew's Society of the Inland Northwest Member, Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Founding Member, Celtic Music Spokane Member, Royal Photographic Society
Cool site! Thanks!
Scott D McKay * The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits *
Thanks for the links. I enjoyed watching them very much.
-Martin ___________________________________ "Cuimhnich air na daoine bhon tanaig thu"
Not a lot of Kilties in that wedding, eh?????
By Choice, not by Birth
Great stuff ! Thank you. Best, Robert
Robert Amyot-MacKinnon
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