The Isle of Arran Pipe Band
The Brodick Pipe Band around 1900
Arran Pipe Band 1995
Above: This picture is the Brodick Pipe Band in 1921 at the Brodick Highland Games. Charlie Hendry,Wellintonia, and Archie Currie, Rosaburn, are the only pipers named
Above Right: Charles Hendry, Wellintonia
Below right,: Unknown Arran Piper
Above: Pipers being given a dram by mourners at a funeral
Below: Mr Michael McCartrae - Piper to the 12th Duke of Hamilton - dancing a sword dance in Glen Rosa
Mr McCarfrae ( Below) competed in Highland Dancing and Piping Competitions and won many medals (Looks like he is wearing them in the below picture). He was living in Brodick Glencloy at the time of the 1871 census as Piper to the 12th Duke of Hamilton. The census also stated he was a farmer of arable land. He died in 1876 in Brodick.