Sunday, June 28, 2009

Bo'ness Fair parade

We had quite a long wait for it to start, which we spent imagining how these horses would get down the Wynd backwards...

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Queen's champion
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Mayor, other dignities and the woman who crowned the Queen.
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Queen
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Ex-Queen
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Queen of the Flower Girls
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Flower Girls from L's school
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Ladies in Waiting (I think)
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Fairies
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I noted, when we were in Linlithgow on Saturday, that this float was also entered into Linlithgow Marches
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Deanburn School
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Abba?
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Kinneil Primary School (L's School)
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Their theme was Summer of '69
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Yabba dabba doo
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Blackness School (only 40-odd pupils, so this is the whole school)
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Bo'ness Public (for Karamina!)
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St Mary's School
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I think I missed Grange School

Sambalistic - the world's palest Brazillians
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Bo'ness Fair - the Arches

There will probably be more from my phone, but meantime...

Queen's Arch.
The Hippodrome in Bo'ness is Scotland's oldest purpose built cinema. It reopened this year. The theme for Deanburn Primary School's arches this year as Wizard of Oz.
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There was a parade of shops opposite

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And a Double Decker Bus
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Queen's Champion - pity about the trees
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Sword Bearer
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Last Year's Queen
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Queen of the Fairies
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On the side of the Queen's house (painted by pupils at a school in another town)
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The school
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Other arches
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At one point, L tried to show a visiting friend round a corner. "There's nothing to see there", said the friend. "Actually," said I, "there's a giant pair of Ruby Slippers"
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