Boys Brigade Wick

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Wick Boys Brigade Captain Marc MacDonald is building a photo archive and would like to get help from anyone who can identify people in the photographs we will be posting in this new section.  In this first batch are a couple of really early photographs including the first one ever taken of the BB's in Wick in 1887

 

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This is the very first photo taken of the 1st Wick Company.  Pictured at the wick riverside.

Wick + Thurso Colours
This picture was taken during a camp at Golspie in 1937. Pictured sitting on the left is the Captain and Founder of 1st Wick, John G Hood. The others i am not sure of.

Old Hall Fooball
This photo was taken inside the old BB Hall in Louisburgh Street which has since been demolished.

Gymnastics
This picture was also taken in the old hall. Notice the old coconut hair mats for landing on. Ouch! The same vault box is still used by our boys today. We have since bought two soft and thick crash mats.

1900

 These Boys are smartly dressed for the group photo of the year
1900. Not too sure of where this pic was taken. Could be Kirkhill or somewhere at
the Riverside.

Pictures Awaited
1961.jpg This was taken in 1961 at Kirkhill.

New Hall Dedication.jpg Pictured at the new BB premises in Henrietta street in 1975. pictured is Captain Willie MacAllan giving a speech while ex Captain Sandy Hood and another BB officer looks on.

Centenery 1987 Anchor Boys.jpg This was taken in 1987. This was the Centenery service which was held in the Central Church in Dempster Street. Pictured from the left: Gordon MacLeod, Alan Forbes, Andrew Cowie, ?, Kevin Coghill, ?, Ross MacKay, Jamie Aitken, Ryan Shand, Gary Harper, Calum Lunn, Robin Green, John Durrand, Marc MacDonald, Andrew Scott, ?, Jamie Gunn, Derek Miller, James Ross, Alan Miller, Grant Robertson (Swanson). Leiutenant Thomas MacKay and Kathy Wares were the Officers present.

Hall Stables. jpg This picture was taken in 1982. The boys pictured were doing a clean up at the back of the BB Hall in Henrietta Street. The building in the background was called the stables but never used as one by the BB. It is now home to the Wick Pigeon Club. From the Left: J Collie, G Campbell, Francis Sutherland, John (Mojo) Mowat, S Oliver, George Sutherland, Colin Campbell, A MacDonald, B Simpson, A Calder, A Collie in the tractor.