Tag: John Wallace

Piping in London: the 1901 to 1904 Highland Gatherings

Piping in London: the 1901 to 1904 Highland Gatherings

• PART 16 • BY JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE. The Highland Gathering 1901 In 1901 the eighth L.H.A.C. Highland Gathering was held on Monday, May 28 at Stamford Bridge. The weather was excellent and large crowds attended. At the close Lady Dundonald presented the prizes. In the evening a dance was […]

Memoirs of Archie MacNeill, part 4

Memoirs of Archie MacNeill, part 4

At the pipers’ pub in the Townhead, all these pipers – Danny A. Campbell of Glendale [Skye], Willie Robb, Michael MacNeill – and others would take turn about to play on the practice chanter. By this time, MacDougall Gillies, who was the manager in Peter Henderson’s shop, had agreed to […]

Memoirs of Archie MacNeill, part 3

Memoirs of Archie MacNeill, part 3

After the war in South Africa, Murdoch MacDonald returned to the castle [Ardencaple Castle] and he was supplied with a new set of Henderson pipes. He was always fussy about his pipe chanter reed and never seemed to get one to please him. One night he told me he would […]

Memoirs of Archie MacNeill, part 2

Memoirs of Archie MacNeill, part 2

The first lessons MacLeod and I had from Roderick Fraser were often interrupted when he would send us into Helensburgh for a jar of beer, which he would consume with a pot of potatoes and salt herring boiled together, and being fortified with this he would then proceed to play […]