Category: flute band

• Older But No Wiser

  

  Steeple Veterans flute band is a part-time band drawing on “veterans” or “old boys” of the Steeple Defenders (which used to have a board nearby). The “older but no wiser” tag-line is exemplified by the fact that they dress up in costume each 12th for the return leg of the day– in 2023 they adopted…

  Extramural Activity

  2024-06-09

  Antrim/Randalstown, cultural, flute band, printed board/placard, PUL, St Andrew’s Saltire, UK royalty, Union Flag

• Four Lads Had A Dream

  

  ‘Four Lads Had A Dream’ is the name of Rangers song (youtube) but here the dream is not “to start a team” in Glasgow but to start a flute band in Monkstown, Newtownabbey. The result of the efforts of the four men – John Black, Freddie Maltman, Brian Crothers, Trevor Wilson – was Monkstown YCV…

  Extramural Activity

  2024-06-06

  cultural, flute band, Newtownabbey, printed board/placard, PUL, Ulster Banner, Union Flag, WWI

• Kai Johansen’s Bar

  

  Kai Johansen was a Danish international who played for Rangers from 1965-1970, most famously scoring the only goal in the 1966 Scottish Cup final against Celtic (WP). He retired in 1970 and went on to manage two teams in South Africa, as well as owning businesses, including pubs and tanning salons, in Denmark and Scotland…

  Extramural Activity

  2024-06-02

  cultural, flute band, Newtownabbey, printed board/placard, PUL, soccer, St Andrew’s Saltire, Ulster Banner

• Pride Of Ardoyne

  

  The Pride Of Ardoyne flute band memorial site was overhauled in November. The silhouetted bandsmen (seen in Pride Of Ardoyne) are gone and the cross and wooden plaque at the top (see Billy Hanna) have been joined by two large boards, naming “J. Bailey, W. Hanna, S. Rockett, B. McClure” and, (on the drum) “Charlie…

  Extramural Activity

  2024-02-10

  Belfast, Belfast north, flute band, plaque, printed board/placard, PUL