Newark and District Caledonian Society

08/01/2023

13/06/2022

Few photos from Saturday Golfing at Norwood Park

26/04/2022

Have you all got your tickets? If not, get them now to avoid disappointment 😁

07/03/2022

Swarkestone Bridge re-enactment - In 1745, Swarkestone Bridge was the southernmost point of Bonnie Prince Charlie's advance on London, in his attempt to claim the British throne.[1] Finding no reports of support from the south, they turned back to Derby and then retreated to Scotland and their final defeat at the Battle of Culloden.

07/03/2022

Sunset in Oban

07/03/2022

Strip the Willows

07/03/2022

Royal Visit Highland Gathering

07/03/2022

Massed Bands - Oban gathering

07/03/2022

Golfing Trip

07/03/2022

Tam O’ Shanter - A legendary Scots poem written by Robert Burns. It focuses on the main character, Tam, as he travels home from the market (and the pub) after a night of drinking. On the way, it begins to rain and storm, and he has a supernatural encounter riding past the local church.

He notices the lights on inside the building, and as a nosy person, it’s only natural that he goes to check what’s going on. Through the window, Tam sees witches and warlocks dancing a ceilidh, while the Devil himself plays the bagpipes. The church had a reputation for being haunted before this, but it’s decorated with all sorts of gory, gruesome artefacts.

As the dancing speeds up, Tam notices a witch in a short dress and drunkenly calls out, “Weel done, cutty-sark!”

The party goes dark at once.

All those witches and creatures at the dance started to chase after him. Tam pushes his horse, Meg, into a gallop, trying to get to the River Doon and cross it before he’s caught. In folklore, witches can’t cross running water.

At the front, the witch ‘Cutty Sark’ begins to gain on him just as he reaches the bridge. Just as Tam reached the bridge, he looked back and saw that the witch had ripped off poor Meg’s tail.

07/03/2022

Robert Burns - Wallace’s Monument Stirling

07/03/2022

To A Mouse - depicts Burns' remorse at having destroyed the nest of a tiny field mouse with his plough. He apologises to the mouse for his mishap, for the general tyranny of man in nature and reflects mournfully on the role of fate in the life of every creature, including himself.

07/03/2022

Golf trip to Tobermory on Mull

07/03/2022

Golf on Mull

07/03/2022

Golf at Norwood Park

07/03/2022

Charity Donation to Project Scotland

07/03/2022

Calcutta Cup - On Christmas Day 1872, a game of rugby football, between 20 players representing England on one side and 20 representing Scotland on the other, was played in Calcutta. The Calcutta Cup was first competed for in 1879, Scotland has won it 42 times and are the current holders.

07/03/2022

Burns Night

07/03/2022

Balamory - Tobermory, Mull, the setting for the fictional town of Balamory

07/03/2022

Address to a Haggis - It is recited afore mony a Burns supper. Durin Burns Nicht, abody staunds as the haggis is brocht in, fur usual on a muckle dish bi the chef whiles a bagpiper leads the wey tae the host's table. The host, or aiblins a guest, will then recite the poem, slicing open the haggis at the richt moment.