Tour Scotland Video Greyfriars Pipe Band Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland video of Greyfriars Pipe Band at the Pipe Band Competition in Pittencrieff Park on ancestry visit to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. This band is is based within Barlanark Greyfriars Parish Church, Hallhill Roadd, Barlanark, Glasgow. Barlanark is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is east of the districts of Budhill, Shettleston and Springboig, north west of Baillieston, west of Springhill and Swinton and south of Easterhouse, Easthall and Wellhouse, separated by Edinburgh Road the A8. The name Barlanark is an apparently hybrid Gaelic Brythonic name suggesting the hill at the clearing from the Gaelic bàrr and Brythonic lanerc meaning clearing. Barlanark housing scheme was developed in response to the city's grave post war housing needs: In 1952 and 1953 over 2300 3/4-bedroom apartments were constructed and rented out as accommodation to Corporation tenants. There were also 5 apartment semi detached houses, and 3 apartment terraced houses built, next to the Estate of Barlanark House, which was constructed by David Hamilton in 1822, and demolished in 1954.

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