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    Posted: 2/10/12 at 8:14am
These are short video's, but there are some athletics in all of them. Bill Anderson is featured in the 1959 video.  Whoever did the standing stone putt in 1959 had some serious pop and extension.  There's some HWFD in the 1930 video..bunch of caber and you all might be interested in how stone and hammer technique has changed.

Take some time and watch the Giants of the past do the business..

Braemar Gathering video, 1930...dumping rain..

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/flooded-out

Braemar, 1934

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/royal-braemar/query/Braemar

Braemar, 1951, with some names mentioned....caber, hammer, stones...

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/braemar-gathering-2/query/Braemar

Braemar, 1954

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/braemar-gathering-3

Braemar, 1959, with Bill Anderson, I think... maybe Grant Anderson?  Bills father?

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-clans-gather-aka-braemar-highland-gathering

If you like this stuff, there's a bucketload of it on the site...  There's actually video of King George...the current Queens grandfather, arriving at Braemar in 1919.
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Thanks Alan!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mr. Natural Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 2/11/12 at 1:15am
Originally posted by Alan H Alan H wrote:


Braemar, 1959, with Bill Anderson, I think... maybe Grant Anderson?  Bills father?


Bad newbie. You go sit in the corner and think about what you did. And maybe you should watch this.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Ali.G Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 2/11/12 at 4:38am
 Wow! Great to see those old boys throwing, Henry Gray throwing heavy ham 98` back in 1954 amazing, same shafts and hammers today and Jock Maclellan winning the hammer way back, George Clark was a legend and first to toss the Braemar Caber, looks a little shorter tho.lol.
 
I Wonder if they were on medicine for  their BALLS shrinking, ;-).
 
I love just watching them throw probably because they have all judged me throwing at some time and great to see them in their prime and also see how they used to putt the braemar stone haha how the rules have changed.
 
Great Links, now if someone could buy them and put them in a video for us that would be great.
 
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1950s ally was you not starting around then?..
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Greg Hadley Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 2/11/12 at 6:37am
Originally posted by Mr. Natural Mr. Natural wrote:

Originally posted by Alan H Alan H wrote:


Braemar, 1959, with Bill Anderson, I think... maybe Grant Anderson?  Bills father?


Sacrilege.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Ali.G Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 2/11/12 at 6:54am
Aye, I was probably floating about  in a whisky bottle somewhere on speyside in the 50`s.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Alan H Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 2/11/12 at 8:04am
OK, OK...color me ignorant!  Big smile  I would appreciate some elucidation as to who these guys are!

Honest truth, I was so jazzed to find these things that I just watched them about 5x each and didn't listen to the commenatary much, so I missed a bunch of names.

Looks like Alistair got a kick out of 'em!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Alan H Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 2/11/12 at 8:11am
Originally posted by Mr. Natural Mr. Natural wrote:

Originally posted by Alan H Alan H wrote:


Braemar, 1959, with Bill Anderson, I think... maybe Grant Anderson?  Bills father?


Bad newbie. You go sit in the corner and think about what you did. And maybe you should watch this.




AWESOME!  I've never seen that before.  LOVING  IT, and I'm only halfway through the first YouTube vid..  I would *love* to get this, looks like it's an old VHS tape.
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It was fun to watch some of the greats and early years of the games. I noticed a couple things after watching a couple of the clips. First off, the parades went a lot faster back then. Their legs were just speeding along. LOL
Secondly, I've never seen so many people in the crowd watching US!!!!! I know some of you guys have competed worldwide and in many levels of championships, so maybe you have competed in front of that size of crowd. That just looks and probably feels amazing.
 
Thank you for sharing these with us.
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Originally posted by Ali.G Ali.G wrote:

 
 
I Wonder if they were on medicine for  their BALLS shrinking, ;-).
 
 
 
OUCH !!............
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Thanks Alan that was great stuff
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Braemar, 1958... Alistair, do you recognize those guys names?

Take a look at how the lads throw the stone!  Thing are a bit different, eh?

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-meeting-of-the-clans

Cowal-Dunoon...1938

Footage of hammer and LWFD, just to prove that there's nothing new under the sun..LOL

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/dunoon-cowal-highland-games-lner/query/hammer+throw

Cowal, 1931

More hammer, caber and 28 WFD

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-cowal-games-2

Cowal, 1928

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-cowal-games-4

Braemar, 1969... Bill Anderson with hammer, and some other lads I don't recognize..

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/highland-games-3/query/Braemar


OK, that's enough. I could waste HOURS on this site!
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Originally posted by Mr. Natural Mr. Natural wrote:


Bad newbie. You go sit in the corner and think about what you did. And maybe you should watch this.
Liked that series of vids...used up a bit of my Friday humdrum.
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