Celebrating Leith and North Edinburgh Leith Festival 2008
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The Pageant >>>
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104 pairs of shoes exhibit >>>
Dalmeny Park Dog Show >>>
Leith & North: Please email any news items to: news@leithandnorth.org.uk From Lochend to Leith Links, the streets were pumping with colour View of the red & yellow open top bus with a Scottish Water banner on the front, and Mark Lazarowicz MP and Malcolm Chisholm MSP, both representing Edinburgh North & Leith Constituency and Leith Cllr Rob Munn

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The mock "Provost (for a day) of Leith", Marjorie Thomas, and the open topped bus, led children, dancers, puppets and pipe downs from Lochend to Leith Links in the annual Leith Pageant on a hot summer's day in June.

Black limousine surrounded by Lothians & Borders police, in front of the red open topped bus Mark Lazarowicz, and Malcolm Chisholm (waving) Left <<<: the Daimler of Marjorie Thomas, Mock Provost of Leith, leading the pageant down East Hermitage Place. Right >>>: Leith Community Concert Band.
Pipe bands were represented by the green of the Sunshine on Leith Pipes and Samba Band, Leith Community Concert Band, the Trinity Occasional Pipers and. Stockbridge Pipe Band. We're going to 'fess up and confess that we're not quite sure who's who, so if anyone wants to email us, we'd be obliged!

Green t-shirted pipers and drummers Above ˆˆˆ: Louise Marshall Millington leading the up and coming generation of pipers.

Person in a seagull costume Children in red costumes with silver pompoms Left <<<: One of the ubiquitous Leith seagulls.
Right >>>: Young cheerleaders from Leith Dockers' Club.

Three marchers with the Leith Wholefood Coop Banner Two young women in red, samba in the middle of the street, as a worker and pollice watch on in flourescent yellow. Left <<<: Leith Wholefood Coop, marching barefooted. Right >>>: Police and workers watch the avant garde of The Edinburgh Samba School.

The Trinity Occasional Pipers (we think)

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Louise Marshall Millington & Sunshine on Leith web site >>>
Edinburgh Samba School web site >>>
Leith Wholefood Coop web site >>>
Mark Lazarowicz, MP's web site >>>
Malcolm Chisholm, MSP's web site >>>