Boys' Brigade bands from England to visit Thurso as part of 140th anniversary celebrations
Young musicians from Boys' Brigade companies in England will be visiting Thurso next week as part of celebrations marking the youth organisation's 140th anniversary.
The worldwide movement was founded in Glasgow October 1883 by Sir William Alexander Smith, who was born at Pennyland House in Thurso.
Members of 1st Thurso Boys’ Brigade will welcome two marching bands from companies throughout England.
Two coachloads of young people aged 14 and over are due to arrive in the town on Wednesday, October 25. The two bands, a bugle band and a pipe band, will form up in High Street around 2.15pm and march to the North Coast Visitor Centre where the Lord-Lieutenant of Caithness, Lord Thurso, will take the salute.
The bands will play a selection of tunes before marching through the precinct and up Olrig Street to Pennyland House. The band will form in the grounds of Pennyland where the final salute will be taken by Captain Johanna Geddes BEM of 1st Thurso Boys’ Brigade.
Mrs Geddes says the Thurso company welcomes anyone to come along to see the bands outside the North Coast Visitor Centre or on the route to Pennyland.
