Show us your Vintage Kilt Photos

[McMurdo]

Please note Gentleman the rules of this thread, I'm leaving the above comments, but lets try to refrain from commenting and just enjoy the vintage photos.

[thomsec]

I hereby declare that no one can give Panache any guff about wanting to wear a flat cap. Or heck, after seeing this, I'd question the right of anyone to comment in a critical manner on anyone else's fashion choices.
I found this photo of Finlay, deerstalker in the employ of Campbell of Islay
on the National Gallery of Scotland's photostream on flickr. Enjoy.

[McMurdo]

John Sobieski Stolberg-Stuart, 1797 - 1872. Alias John Hay or John Hay Allan, yes that one. From the same source as above.

[McMurdo]

I found this one this morning

George, the second son of Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark, was born at Marlborough House on 3rd June, 1865. Most of his childhood was spent at Sandringham, Buckingham Palace and Balmoral.
After being educated at home by the Rev. J. N. Dalton, George became a naval cadet at Dartmouth. By 1889 he was commander of a torpedo boat. However, in January 1892, his naval career came to an end when his older brother, Prince Edward, died of pneumonia. Edward had been engaged to marry his German cousin, Princes Mary of Teck. It was now decided she should marry George instead.

[McMurdo]

The Duke of York

As a great-grandson of Queen Victoria, Albert was styled His Highness Prince Albert of York from birth. In 1898, Queen Victoria issued Letters Patent that granted the children of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales the style Royal Highness, and at age two, Albert became His Royal Highness Prince Albert of York.

[McMurdo]

The Prince and Princess of Wales

Abergeldie Castle stands only 2 miles from the Royal family's country home at Balmoral and dates from the 16th century.
The castle has had many well-known guests over the years and these have even included royalty. Sadly, there has also been an uninvited guest who has made herself known to the occupants over the centuries.
She is known as Kittie Rankie or sometimes French Kate. Apparently she was a woman of French origin who was at one time employed in the castle.
It is said that this unfortunate lady was accused of practising black magic and arrested soon after to be charged with witchcraft.
After confinement in the castle she was eventually found guilty and thereafter taken to a local hill where she was tied to a stake and burnt for her supposed crimes. Evidently this poor soul returned to haunt the castle after her death.

[McMurdo]

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The Black Watch from the Great War

[Lon Scot Reg Secretary]

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The Black Watch from the Great War

The Identification of Photograph no 2 is of A London Scottish soldier from WW1. That's the best I can do, we have no copy of this photograph here at RHQ so no name I'm afraid.

[McMurdo]

Andy Stewart was born in Glasgow in 1933, the son of a teacher. He moved to Arbroath as a child, and then trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.He had several hit singles - "Come in-Come in", "Donald Where's Yer Troosers?", "A Scottish Soldier" (36 weeks in the UK Singles Chart in 1961), "Campbeltown Loch", "The Muckin' O' Geordie's Byre", "The Road to Dundee", "Tunes Of Glory", and "Dr. Finlay" (1965). He is also remembered for being the compere of the The White Heather Club. This was a BBC Scotland television programme that existed as an annual New Year's Eve party (1957 - 1968), and also as a weekly early evening series (1960 - 1968). "Donald Where's Yer Troosers?" was a hit in 1961 and again in 1989. Andy does an Elvis Presley impersonation half way through the song. On the strength of this comedy hit, Andy toured Australia and appeared on the Ed Sullivan show in 1968, doing impersonations of Dean Martin. His skill with different accents is also evident on "The Rumour", where the rumour moves across Scotland and into Ireland, with Andy speaking in a different accent for each place.His albums, such as Scottish Soldier and Andy Stewart's Scotland, were also popular internationally.In retirement he moved back to Arbroath and died there in 1993. Before he died he did a small concert at Arbroath High School (which he had attended) for the pupils. He was also due to appear in a concert at Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre. A sheltered housing scheme in Arbroath, 'Andy Stewart Court', was named in his memory.Stewart died after giving one of his most renowned performances during a Gala Benefit Concert for Children's Hospice Association Scotland. He came to the Usher Hall in Edinburgh from his sick bed to appear for the children, and gave his last ever performance.Stewart's son Ewan Stewart is an actor, whose film credits include Rob Roy and Titanic.

[McMurdo]

Burns Night, effectively a second national day, is celebrated on 25 January with Burns suppers around the world, and is still more widely observed than the official national day, Saint Andrew's Day, or the proposed North American celebration Tartan Day. The format of Burns suppers has not changed since Robert's death in 1796. The basic format starts with a general welcome and announcements followed with the Selkirk Grace. Just post the grace comes the piping and cutting of the haggis, where Robert's famous Address To a Haggis is read, and the haggis is cut open. The event usually allows for people to start eating just after the haggis is presented. This is when the reading called the "immortal memory", an overview of Robert's life and work is given; the event usually concludes with the singing of Auld Lang Syne.