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1. Stories from our past and Bussin' programmes

Stories from our past

The Society has a raft of archive material going back many years and it is our aim to publish as much as possible on this web site. 

If you have documents, photos, etc that you would like to be included in our web pages, please send them to, or contact the Society Secretary, using the contact link included in the web.   

Some docs may require you to reposition them or increase the font - just right click or use the tools at the top of the PDF document.

 

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1.  The History of the Society

2.  First Society Flag

3.  Preserving the Original 1911 Flag

4.  The flag arrived from Canada 1911

5.  First Colonial Society Standard Bearer T B Williamson 

6.  The full story of the ''beginning'' 1910 to 1911

7.  The inauguration speech 1911 by Craig-Brown

8.  The "hamecoming" 1912 & Glasgow Souters

9.  The first medallion from Edinburgh Souters 1912

10. Reflections of a Souter to an Exile 1912

11. The race prize donated in 1914

12. 1924 report by secretary

13. Toll banking

14. Wartime

15. The first 50 years

16. Flodden 500 remembrance

17. Colonial SBs and LBs with original 1911 flag - year not known

18. The original members of the Society 1911

19. The first 100 years

20. Colonials win bowling league 2015

21. Colonial Society and the Scottish Diaspora Tapestry

22. Preserving Our Bussin' Ribbons 2015

23. Society History Medal

24. New Casting Flag 2016

25. Preserving the CSB sashes

26. Good Cause awards from Society 2018

27. The launch of the new CD 2016

28. The launch of the book ''Tales of the Exiles'' in 2018

29. Good Cause awards from Society 2019

 

 

1920 Bussin report page 1  

1920 Bussin report page 2

1921 Bussin report 

1926 Bussin report

1928 Bussin report (broadcast live by BBC) 

1935 Bussin report

1960 Bussin report 

2013 Bussin' programme   

2014 Bussin' programme

2015 Bussin Programme part 1

2016 Bussin' Programme

2017 Bussin' Programme

2018 Bussin' Programme

2019 Bussin' Programme

2022 Bussin Programme

2023 Bussin Programme 

Category: Archives

2. Common Ridings from 1911 onwards

Common Ridings Past

The Society has taken part in every Selkirk Common Riding since 1911 and we are keen to publish as much material as possible covering over 100 years of history.  

In this section of our web site we are publishing Common Riding pictures from 1911 onwards.

If you have photographs involving the Colonial Society, particularly for the missing years, please get in touch with the Secretary via the ‘’contact’’ page of this web site.  We would be delighted to publish them. 

Reproduction of some of the images has been problematic because many images were ''glued'' into the old minute books.  Using the PDF facilities however you should be able to move the position of the image and/or increase the font size.

1911 John Johnstone 

(Note - T B Williamson was appointed CSB but was detained in New York)

1912 James Hyslop

1913 Robert Anderson

1914 Tom Currie 

War Years: No Standard bearer in 1915-1918

1919 John Rae

1920 James Nichol and Number 2

1921 William Downie 

1922 William Palmer 

1923 James Johnstone

1924 John Yellowlees

1925 John Colledge

1926 George Muir      

1927 George Robertson

1928 James Hogg image 

1929 John Bateman

1930 R L Haig

1931 G W Robertson

1932 Tom Scott

1933 William Hogg 

1934 George Rutherford

1935 Robert Beattie 

1936 William Lamb

1937 James Lothian

1938 Jock Beattie

1939 J Wilkinson

War Years: No Standard Bearer in 1940 - 1945

1946 T Inglis Baptie

1947 V Sinclair

1948 Robert McIntyre

1949 W Taylor

1950 Jack Harper

1951 William Douglas

1952 R Waugh

1953 Neil Balmer 

1954 Jack Crooks

1955 D McIntyre

1956 John Currie

1957 David Murray

1958 Walter Waldie  

1959 Douglas Ramsay

1960 James Finlay

1961 Robert Currie

1962 Andrew Sinton

1963 Jack Thomson   

1964 George Thomson

1965 William Hislop

1966 Lewis Brydon 

1967 George Anderson

1968 Lawrence Scott

1969 Raymond Smith

1970 Gordon Stewart

1971 James Turnbull

1972 Ron Rutherford

1973 Gerald Beggs                         

1974 Peter Robertson

1975 Walter Dalgleish                               

1976 Donald Waldie   

1977 Rex Donaldson

1978 Roy Lawrie

1979 Stewart Horsburgh

1980 Andrew Emond                                       

1981 Lester Sinton                                             

1982 Drew Imrie  

1983 Jim Henderson                                       

1984 Douglas Robbie                  

1985 George Emond

1986 Tom Purves

1987 David Williamson                           

1988 Brian Nixon

1989 Jan Bjorklund                                            

1990 Murray Russell

1991 Rodney Kemp Australia                         

1992 Trevor Walters  

1993 Will Anderson            

1994 Ernest Hume  

1995 Duncan Stewart    

1996 Billy Rathie  

1997 Marcus Waldie   plus no 2 

1998 Billy Coracy                 

1999 Craig Douglas                                            

2000 Gregor Stewart

2001 Mark Screen   

2002 Keith Williamson

2003 Lindsay Cockburn 

2004 Alan Emond  

2005 Robert Lamza

2006 Gerald Beggs  

2007 Jim Bunyan    

2008 Alistair Scott    

2009 Alister Heatlie  

2010 John Graham

2011 Bobby Murray

2012 George Thomson

2013 Robert M Anderson

2014 Kenny Thomson

2015 Chris Yardley

2016 Ernie Lamza

2017 Martin Murray 

2018 Alisdair Piercy 

2019 Stuart Smith

Covid Pandemic:  No Standard bearer in 2020 or 2021

2022 David Hislop  David no 2   David no 3

2023 Neil Heatlie  Neil - second image

Category: Archives

Archives

Category: Archives

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