Diamond delight as crowds celebrate 60th Lesmahagow Highland Games

Hundreds turned out to take pleasure in day of summer season enjoyable at this yr's Lesmahagow Highland Video games on Saturday.

It was an important day because the historic occasion celebrated its diamond anniversary with festivities going down for the sixtieth time within the city.

The Glebe Park was awash with color as locals loved pipe bands, highland dancing, cheerleading, fancy costume, a funfair, a petting zoo, and plenty heaps extra.

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Many in attendance agreed the occasion on June 18 was 'identical to the nice outdated days' as villagers and guests obtained concerned within the enjoyable.

Crowds lined the primary avenue to observe The Chieftains’ Procession, earlier than heading to the park for the annual Crowning of the Tartan Queen.

Tartan Queen and her Court docket, with joint Chieftains Mark and Enrico (Picture: John Weir)

This yr’s Queen is Neve Canning, and she or he was accompanied by two Tartan Princesses, Sindija Stikute and Eva Cardwell. The 2 Clansmen have been James McKnight and Noah Brannan.

The 2 Chieftain have been Mark Rollo and Enrico Franceschi – two pleasant however rival fish and chip store homeowners buying and selling inside 50 yards of one another.

Each actively assist the golf equipment and organisations within the village, in addition to having raised tens of hundreds of kilos between them for numerous charities.

They each earned Lockdown Hero standing for serving the village above and past the decision of responsibility in the course of the lengthy lockdown summer season of 2020, and it’s for these causes that they have been chosen as Joint Chieftains and rightly recognised by villagers.

Crowds have been handled to an awesome show of pipe band music (Picture: John Weir)

A document variety of occasions passed off in the course of the afternoon which additionally noticed a Heavyweight Contest, Gymnastics, Scottish Backhold Wrestling and even a mini petting zoo.

David Abercrombie, chairman of the Lesmahagow Highland Video games Society, mentioned: "We had yet one more day of summer season sunshine too!

"The committee wish to thank all those that carried out at our sixtieth Video games, our Tartan Queen and Court docket, our Chieftains, monetary supporters, sponsors, and advertisers – we're already excited about the 61st Video games!"

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