Tour Scotland Video Bo'ness Pipe Band Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of Bo'ness Pipe Band at the Pipe Band Competition in Pittencrieff Park on ancestry visit visit and trip to Dunfermline, Fife. Bo’ness Federation pipe-band was formed in 1919. The first Pipe major was Willie McComb, after he was demobbed from the army at the end of the first World War he went back to working as a miner in Longriggend. Borrowstounness commonly known as Bo'ness is a coastal parish in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on a hillside on the south bank of the Firth of Forth within the Falkirk council area, 16.9 miles north west of Edinburgh and 6.7 miles east of Falkirk.

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

Tour Scotland travel video of Peebles Ex-Servicemen's Pipe Band at the Pipe Band Competition in Pittencrieff Park on ancestry, history visit and trip 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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Tour Scotland Video Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty Song Balhousie Castle Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of The Scottish Hydro Singers singing Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty, on ancestry visit to Balhousie Castle in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Jack Dunn, son of a gun, over in France today,
Keeps fit doing his bit up to his eyes in clay.
Each night after a fight to pass the time along,
He's got a little gramophone that plays this song:

Take me back to dear old Blighty!
Put me on the train for London town!
Take me over there,
Drop me ANYWHERE,
Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham, well, I don't care!

I should love to see my best girl,
Cuddling up again we soon should be,
WHOA!!!

Tiddley iddley ighty,
Hurry me home to Blighty,
Blighty is the place for me!

Bill Spry, started to fly, up in an aeroplane,
In France, taking a chance, wish'd he was down again.
Poor Bill, feeling so ill, yell'd out to Pilot Brown:
"Steady a bit, yer fool! we're turning upside down!"

Take me back to dear old Blighty!
Put me on the train for London town!
Take me over there,
Drop me ANYWHERE,
Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham, well, I don't care!

I should love to see my best girl,
Cuddling up again we soon should be,
WHOA!!!

Tiddley iddley ighty,
Hurry me home to Blighty,
Blighty is the place for me!

Jack Lee, having his tea, says to his pal MacFayne,
"Look, chum, apple and plum! it's apple and plum again!
Same stuff, isn't it rough? fed up with it I am!
Oh! for a pot of Aunt Eliza's raspb'ry jam!"

Take me back to dear old Blighty!
Put me on the train for London town!
Take me over there,
Drop me ANYWHERE,
Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham, well, I don't care!

I should love to see my best girl,
Cuddling up again we soon should be,
WHOA!!!

Tiddley iddley ighty,
Hurry me home to Blighty,
Blighty is the place for me!

One day Mickey O'Shea stood in a trench somewhere,
So brave, having a shave, and trying to part his hair.
Mick yells, dodging the shells and lumps of dynamite:
"Talk of the Crystal Palace on a Firework night!"

Take me back to dear old Blighty!
Put me on the train for London town!
Take me over there,
Drop me ANYWHERE,
Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham, well, I don't care!

I should love to see my best girl,
Cuddling up again we soon should be,
WHOA!!!

Tiddley iddley ighty,
Hurry me home to Blighty,
Blighty is the place for me!

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Tour Scotland Video Pack Up Your Troubles Song Balhousie Castle Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of The Scottish Hydro Singers singing Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile, on ancestry visit to Balhousie Castle in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The song is best remembered for its chorus:

Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile,
While you've a lucifer to light your fag,
Smile, boys, that's the style.
What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while, so
Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Bride Arriving At St John's Kirk in Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Scottish Bride arriving for her wedding in St John's Kirk on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. St John's Kirk located on South St John's Place is architecturally and historically one of the most significant buildings in Perth. The settlement of the original church dates back to the mid 12th century.

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