If you hadn’t noticed already, The 79th Glasgow Boys’ Brigade Company were featured in the most recent edition of The Extra, the Glasgow South and Eastwood Newspaper. The article detailed the Junior Section’s recent win of a Figure Marching competition.

The article reads:

“Members of the 79th Glasgow Boys’ Brigade Company Junior Section fought off tough competition to win a certificate for Figure Marching. The Boys, whose Company is based at Newton Mearns Parish Church, on the Ayr Road, were led on this occasion by Captain Robbie Sutherland and Lieutenant Moyra Lamont.

The competition was judged by David Howard, an officer with the 86th Orchard Hill Company. The certificate was presented by Captain Gordon Allardice, a BB District Convenor, who retires next year. After the presentation, Captain Allardice announced his intention to present a cup to future winners.”

Congratulations to all Boys who took part in the competition!

Congratulations are due to all Boys who took part in the recent Eastwood District Swimming Gala.

On Saturday 15th March 2008, Boys from the Junior and Company Sections across the district assembled at Eastwood Swimming pool to take part in the annual competition.

In the Junior Section heats, many Boys from the 79th won individual medals across all heats of the competition. As well as these individual achievements, the Junior Section Boys won the overall competition, retaining the Junior Section Swimming Gala Trophy for the 3rd Year Running! Well done to all Boys who took part.

Three Boys from the Company Section entered the swimming competition: Greg Turner, Alastair McGuire and Lewis McGuire. Between them, they won nine events, and Greg won the District Championship. These achievements were enough to secure an overall victory of the Company Section Swimming Gala Trophy for the 79th.

We hope that everyone who took part had an enjoyable time, and once again well done to you all!

“IT started as an idea to help discipline some boys in a Sunday School class, but 125 years later the Boys’ Brigade is still going strong.

The organisation, founded by William Smith, is the oldest uniformed children’s group in the world … and it all began in Glasgow.”
- Evening Times

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