41st Anderston, Glasgow BB had camps every year and alternated between Meigle, in Perthshire and Balmaha. Great days.
What year was this mate?19th Greenock then it folded, joined 3rd Greenock, at the time was worst football team but still turned up every week to play as you should..
From around 1985 until 1989.What year was this mate?
I was 3rd Greenock 95-08
Have sent you a message.When was that mate? I was in the 32nd at Anderston in the early 80s and I think we went to those same places. We also went to Wales for a camp but I got drunk and got sent home! Wasn't one of my finest moments.
6th greenock 1979-81 junior section. Used to play football Saturday mornings at either Battery park (big pitch) Murdieston (more like playing in a trench) and Wellington (up on the hill behind old sugar house) a bugger if ball went by post or over bar, a trek down the hill to fetch ball. Good for time wasting of you were winning.From around 1985 until 1989.
Long before your time
Cheers will give this a watch, Jim McVean was an officer in the 200th company when I was there, great guyIn todays programme Antiques Road Trip, the BBC1 Daytime show, was passing through Glasgow and they stopped off at Battalion Headquarters for a short segment on the Boys' Brigade. Natasha Raskin Sharp spoke to Jim McVean, our Battalion Secretary and then she took part in some games at our Skills for Queen's Badge Course.
If you missed it you can watch again on BBC iplayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k2zy or it's repeated at 7.15am on Friday 17th March on BBC2. We're about 12 minutes in.
For those that don’t know the programme - two antiques experts travel around over the course of the week, buying items and then selling them at auction each day. Each day includes a local interest story from wherever they happen to be, and today they were in Glasgow so came to find out about the BB.
I was in the 7th for a couple of years around then as well. Played the bugle in the band or at least I pretended to while others made the noise. I enjoyed most of it except the church stuff, I remember being told if we didn't go to Sunday School we couldn't play in the football team so I wrapped it. Some good memories though.7th EK c.1987 for a couple of years until I was sent home for wearing long trousers whilst in the junior section (shorts only) even though there was a foot of snow on the ground.
Old man went ballistic.
Typo - should have been ‘77I was in the 7th for a couple of years around then as well. Played the bugle in the band or at least I pretended to while others made the noise. I enjoyed most of it except the church stuff, I remember being told if we didn't go to Sunday School we couldn't play in the football team so I wrapped it. Some good memories though.
I was one of many doing gymnastics (horse and springboard on Ibrox pitch. Does that count?
I was in the 7th Greenock around that time, the church at George sq across the road from the old Tesco multi storey car park. Good times apart from them trying to shoehorn christian nonsense down your throat at every opportunity. When we came out we’d head to the Darling restaurant for a chip roll then round for the Bow Farm flats bus home.6th greenock 1979-81 junior section. Used to play football Saturday mornings at either Battery park (big pitch) Murdieston (more like playing in a trench) and Wellington (up on the hill behind old sugar house) a bugger if ball went by post or over bar, a trek down the hill to fetch ball. Good for time wasting of you were winning.
44 Cardonald: Best mate broke his arm one Friday night vaulting over one of these. The crack was heard all around the church hall. He ended up with metal plates in his arm, two massive scars and weeks off school. No such thing as Health and Safety in the 70s!
So shine up your buttons with Brasso,7th EK.
Still remember my Grandad making me get the brasso out before each BB night to clean my belt.
Funnily ,I was singing that other night.So shine up your buttons with Brasso,
Its only tuppence a tin,
You can get it in Woolworth’s for nothing,
Providing there’s nobody in!
Cleaned with a toothbrush to get in all the nooks and crannies. And blanco for the haversack.7th EK.
Still remember my Grandad making me get the brasso out before each BB night to clean my belt.
It was trying to clean those brass clips and button it that was a bigger, without getting it markedCleaned with a toothbrush to get in all the nooks and crannies. And blanco for the haversack.
7th EK.
My eldest are in the Army and Sea Cadets and they fill a comparable role.I wonder what the membership is like for organisations like this. Get the impression modern kids would not be interested in this kind of thing.
But done properly they could be showing kids really useful skills.
Saw an article on an American football coach who was teaching his players basic car maintenance, and DIY stuff.
Skills like that are useful and should have widley available through orgs like the BBs.
It was the BB that instilled in me that I should never go out without shoes polished and if I wear a tie never to have the top button undone. Also taught me, being the 1st Neilston, that 21-0 defeats at football are not uncommon.
The 208 Glasgow is still going strong but there has been some uncertainty about the future of the church it meets at:In the late 50s I was in the lifies in St James Church in Pollok which I loved but when I moved on to the 208 BB I wasn't that keen all that marching and polishing and getting up early on a Sunday for Church parade wasn't really for me .
I moved away from Pollok many years ago and it would be interesting to know if the 208 is still going.
Thanks very much for that, good to see that they are still going strongThe 208 Glasgow is still going strong but there has been some uncertainty about the future of the church it meets at:
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Some great guys leading that company.Historic BB company to hold charity ball as it celebrates 125th birthday
THE 2nd Gourock Company of the Boys' Brigade are to close their 125th anniversary celebrations with a grand charity ball.www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk
I was part of the team that won the Steadfast Football trophy. I am sure we beat Stoke in the last 8, Durham in the Semi and the 32 Anderston in the final. I played for the 227 Yorkhill. We had lost to the 32nd in the first local rounds but went through as second, so they were super confident, Cocky really thinking they couldn't lose. They could and did.When was that mate? I was in the 32nd at Anderston in the early 80s and I think we went to those same places. We also went to Wales for a camp but I got drunk and got sent home! Wasn't one of my finest moments.
44 Cardonald: Best mate broke his arm one Friday night vaulting over one of these. The crack was heard all around the church hall. He ended up with metal plates in his arm, two massive scars and weeks off school. No such thing as Health and Safety in the 70s!
I attended in the late 70s: Dougie Keith, Billy Bisset, John Haining, Bobby Waters annd Alex Niven ( great guy) are the officers I can remember. I must admit I was only there for the football and sneaking round to the Aldwych to meet the Lourdes girls, a tad more attractive than my year group at Penilee.Another 44th Glasgow member here. You were a good few years before me though going by your 70s comment