2015 Perth Kirkin Of The Council

Pictures here from the annual Kirkin' of the Council parade through Perth. As usual, the parade of councillors, with the Provost, Council Chief Executive and Lord Dean of the Guild at the front were led to St John's Kirk by the Perth and District Pipe band and flanked on each side by the Society of High Constables of Perth.

Perth Kirkin Of The Council 2013

Pictures here from the 2013 Kirking of the Council, which this year took a different route, and was also expanded.

As usual the Perth & District Pipe Band lead the civic procession to St John's Kirk and back again. This year's procession included representatives from all the emergency services and the NHS. For the first time, the Lord Provost of Dundee City Council and the Provost of Angus Council participated in the civic procession. The Vice Chancellor of UHI and the Principal and Assistant Principal of Perth College UHI also walked the route, along with the High Constables of Perth, the Lord Dean of Guild and members of the Merchant Guild of Perth.

In the congregation for the Kirking service at St John's were representatives from all over Perth and Kinross: community groups, businesses, cultural groups, teachers and head pupils from local secondary schools, and charities.

A selection of pictures below, with the full collection here

 

 

Perth Kirkin' of the Council 2012

Pictures here of the 2012 Kirkin' of the Council. The parade of councillors was led for the first time by Supt. Jim Leslie, and also for the first time, Lady Provost Liz Grant. Local councillors were joined on this occassion of the Diamond Jubliee, and Perth's newly granted City status, by the mayor of Perth, Ontario, and mayor of Cognac, France, the Oberbürgermeister and Bürgermeister of Aschaffenburg, Germany, and the chairman of the city council of Bydgoszcz, Poland.

As usual the parade was led by the Perth and District Pipe Band, and flanked by the Society of High Constables of Perth.

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Perth and Kinross Kirking of the Council 2011

The procession of councillors, flanked by the High Constables of Perth was led as usual by the Perth & District Pipe Band.

Following the church service a ceremony was held to instate a Piper to the City of Perth, in this case pipe major Alistair Duthie as reconition of the service the pipe band has given the city of Perth for over 120 years.

In addition the Provost was re-instated as the patron of the band, a tradition that had been lost following local authority re-organisation in 1975.

Perth and Kinross Chief Executive Bernadette Malone installed the pipe major as the Piper to the City, whilst the Provost John Hulbert attached a banner to the drone of the Pipe Major another sign or recongition of the role the band as a whole has played historically.

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Date: Sunday 15th May 2011