^^^ Above: Fred Frayling-Kelly leader of Leith Community Concert Band with Mrs Frayling-Kelly.
More pictures of Leith Gala Day 2010 on Leith & North >>>
Margo Macdonald, MSP for the Lothians and twice Leith Provost for the day, opened the entertainments and was able to enjoy the famed sunshine on Leith after . Margo gave out several awards, chief of which was the second presentation of the Elizabeth Laidlaw Memorial Award to Fred Frayling-Kelly, (pictured above,) leader of Leith Community Concert Band and organiser of the annual Leith Tattoo.
The award takes the form of a crocus to mark a guerilla gardening campaign by Cllr Elizabeth Laidlaw and friends. They planted crocuses on Leith Links, as the Council had refused to do so. These crocuses were then mowed down by the Council's Parks Department, when tending the grass. As a result of Elizabeth's complaints, the Council went on to plant more crocuses by way of redress. Thus, Leith Links benefited from double the number of flowers.
Left <<<: Margo Macdonald (Provost of Leith for the
day) presents Fred Frayling-Kelly with the Elizabeth Laidlaw Memorial award, as Leith Festival Chair Cllr Gordon Munro watches on.Right
>>>: Fred with the Crocus award.
Left <<<: Malcolm Chisholm points out his father in an old picture of Hermitage Park pupils at the Leith Local History stall.Right >>>:The BIG project held a singing workshop for children at South Leith Parish Church Halls.
Above ^^^: Showing off the Citadel's magnificent dragon coming back from the Pageant.
Visit the Citadel Youth Centre web site to keep up to date with events and activities.
Left <<<: Stewart Blaik, Chair of Leith Central Community Council.Right >>>:Stewart Blaik models an Edinburgh Trams baseball cap. Leith Central Community Council invited residents to vote on their local priorities for the Leith area.
Visit the Leith Community Council web site to learn more, and read more about the campaign for a Leith Theatre on Leith & North >>> and on the Leith Theatre Trust web site >>>
Left <<<: Spectacular Specsavers stall.Right >>>: Una Richards & Philip Neaves promoting the Leith Theatre Trust. More pictures of Leith Gala Day 2010 on Leith & North >>>
Leith churches web site >>>
Leith Community Concert Band web site >>>
The BIG project web site >>>
