Tour Scotland Video Peebles Ex-Servicemen's Pipe Band Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland video of Peebles Ex-Servicemen's Pipe Band at the Pipe Band Competition in Pittencrieff Park on ancestry visit to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The first Peebles Pipe band was under the leadership of Pipe Sergeant John Sterricks, Ex-Royal Scots, and on Sunday the 16th June 1919 a procession headed by the Pipe band marched along the High Street to the Parish Church. Traditionally, a person born in Peebles was called a gutterbluid, although few people can now claim that distinction as Peebles no longer has a hospital. Most babies are now born in Edinburgh or Borders General Hospital at Melrose.

Notable Peebles people include;

Eric Bogle, folk musician resident in Australia, born in Peebles.
Scott Brash, olympic gold medallist.
John Buchan, author, practised law in Peebles, and his house, opposite the old Sheriff Court, bears a commemorative plaque.
Robert Chambers, publisher and author of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.
William Chambers, publisher, brother of Robert.
John Mathison, New Zealand MP was born in Peebles.
Mungo Park, practised medicine, and his house on the north of the Cuddy bears a commemorative plaque.

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