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Title: RIDING OF THE MARCHES MUSSELBURGH 1935

Reference number: 1403

Date: 1935

Director: [filmed by Frederick Laing]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.10 mins

Description: Shots of the Riding of the Marches parade in Musselburgh in 1935.

This looks to be a 'third' reel of ref 1402, but as we cannot be 100% sure have kept on separate records for the time being. Both titles have been allocated the same title during recataloguing, March 2011

16mm print held by East Lothian District Council Library. Reeled up with refs. 1402 and 1404.

Also see website at: http://www.honesttoun.co.uk which holds photographs and names of all Honest Lads and Lasses since the first event, in 1936. The site also reproduces a founder's account (written for the 1986 Festival) of the origins of the Honest Toun Association that arranges the annual event. [last accessed 3/4/2008]

Shotlist: [shotlisted from speed-corrected VHS]

[no title] shots of Riding of the Marches parade along Musselburgh street, including town Champion Douglas Lowe, squires and turf cutter, town officials in carriages, horse riders - Provost David Lowe waves to camera from carriage - more town officials pass in carriages and another waves - floats passing, including Gas, Fuel of the Future; Lowe's market gardens truck; miners; Greig & Douglas Biscuits of Quality cart; lady and gentleman with blacked faces; fisherwomen; cyclists and penny farthing, blacksmiths, Sunkist fruiterer's van, Evans van, lodge members carrying banner; floral float; P. Millar Motor Engineer breakdown truck; Finlaysons coal merchant; fancy dress contestants; fishermen and women; shots of military brass band passing, followed by bakers with 'It's A' Oor Ain' banner, fancy dress, Voluntary Aid Detachment; Ford car (4.10)