Tag: Bill Millin

Tribute to the pipers of Bergen-Belsen

Tribute to the pipers of Bergen-Belsen

Regular readers may recall our story last July about Branko Lustig. As a 10-year-old boy, Branko, a Croatian Jew, had been imprisoned at Auschwitz and later at Bergen-Belsen during the Second World War. Branko went on to have a successful career in the movie industry and, in fact, in 1994 […]

Stories of the Tunes – Road to the Isles

Stories of the Tunes – Road to the Isles

Road to the Isles was composed by John McLellan of Dunoon in 1891 when he was a young boy of 16. However, he called it The Bens of Jura. McLellan’s mother, Mary Darroch was born at Keils in Jura, and his father, Neil McLellan, came from the nearby island of […]