Scottish Pipe Band Championships

**cessna152towser** · 19th May 07, 03:56 PM

Your intrepid x-marks roving reporters/cameramen David Dalglish and myself braved the weather at the Scottish Pipe Band Championships in Dumbarton earlier today.
In background Inverkeithing Pipe Band - Holyrood tartan.

RAF Leuchars Pipe Band - Royal Air Force tartan

A member of the Royal Air Force Leuchars pipe band.

Baton practice

Stow Pipe Band - Cameron tartan

**cessna152towser** · 19th May 07, 04:01 PM

Duns Pipe Band - Seaforth MacKenzie tartan

David

Johnstone Pipe Band - Blue MacKay tartan

The Pride of Murray Pipe Band - Murray of Atholl tartan

**cessna152towser** · 19th May 07, 04:12 PM

101 Northumbrian Regiment Royal Artillery, Volunteer Reserve, Pipe Band - Royal Stewart tartan

The event was held at Levengrove Park, Dumbarton, where the River Leven carrying the overflow from Loch Lomond joins the Firth of Clyde by Dumbarton Rock.

Lothian & Borders Police Pipe Band - Prince Charles Edward Stuart tartan

St. Lawrence O'Toole Pipe Band, from Dublin, Eire - Bottle Green single colour kilts

Badenoch & Strathspey Pipe Band - Monarch of the Glen tartan

Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band from Northern Ireland - Drumalig tartan

**cessna152towser** · 19th May 07, 04:32 PM

Ballycoan Pipe Band from Northern Ireland - Royal Stewart tartan

Robert Wiseman Dairies Vale of Atholl Pipe Band - Muted MacNaughton tartan

Kirkcaldy & District Pipe Band - Scotland Forever tartan (Lochcarron).

David at the Stalls

Stalls and Funfair

Braving the rain.

**cessna152towser** · 19th May 07, 04:41 PM

Inverness Capes were a best seller at the stalls - David bought one.

There were lots of other goodies on sale - including clan crests.

Kilts from £50

Maybe a candidate for the Kilt Do's and Don'ts thread?

Inverness Capes were de rigeur today.

All the fun of the fair.

Scottish Power Pipe Band - Scottish Power tartan

Finally, later in the evening, the apres-piping, an informal shot of three members of the Scottish Power Band, in the lounge of the Ramada Hotel at Glasgow Airport.