Now this is a really interesting photo it was taken 15th September 1974
in Hozier St, Bridgeton, we were standing opposite John St. Primary School. You can see in
the background a fence and beyond the fence the tenements of London Road.
The school has been replaced with houses and the street has been renamed Queen
Mary St.
Participants were
Officers: Jas Turnbull, Mike Middleton and the webmaister Wull.McArthur
Boys : Ronnie McGivens, Graham
Park,
Mark Laird, Martin Howe
Bobby
Muir, James
Rae,
Alex McKechnie, Dennis Boyle, Jim Thomson
Boys' Brigade Dennistoun District Church parade to
St.Andrews church.
(our bands first parade )
.
BB Band History :
In the 2nd February 1885 William Smith wrote to a local newspaper telling
them they had organised a band which was making remarkable progress, this
was a flute band consisting of 16 performers. ( First BB band was a
Flute band)
The idea of BB bands caught on very quickly and the BB Annual Report for
1885/86 shows there were five flute bands in existence and only two years
later the Annual Report for 1887/88 reported 35 bands - 25 flute, 2 bugle,
4 brass and 4 pipe bands. all this from only 220 companies then on the
roll.
