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Wednesday, 28th July 2010 The picturesque Sashing Ceremony, conducted on the banks of the Esk between the ancient Roman Bridge and the New Bridge, contrasts the old traditions of the town and the hopes and aspirations of the young, and is perhaps the most picturesque event of Festival Week.
The Lad and Lass 2010 will be sashed with the emblems of their office by Lord Cameron of Loch Broom. He will present the sash to this year's Honest Lad and Honest Lass.
The Burgh Flag will be officially handed over to the Honest Lad by Councillor Barry Turner and will be bussed at the Sashing Ceremony. He will be given the responsibility to return the flag 'unsullied and unstained' after the ride-out on Saturday afternoon.
The Honest Lass will be presented with the Jewelled Riding Crop and the Lad and Lass will receive gifts from the Fisherrow Fishing Community and local businesses.
A feature of the Sashing Ceremony will be the presentation of Medallions to the Official Party which will act as a lasting reminder of their year in office.
The ceremony ends with the Official Party dancing the Musselburgh and Eightsome Reels.
THE SASHER
Lord Cameron of Loch Broom
Kenneth Cameron - Lord Cameron of Lochbroom.
Born and brought up in Edinburgh, Kenneth Cameron went to school at The Edinburgh Academy. After national service in the Royal Navy, he studied history at Oxford University and then on to Edinburgh University to read law. Called to the Bar in 1958 he remained in practice as an advocate until 1984 when he became Lord Advocate and was made a life peer as Lord Cameron of Lochbroom with an ancestral association with Ullapool and Wester Ross. Appointed a judge in 1989, he served on the bench until retirement in 2003. Has had a long connection with the Edinburgh Civic Trust (the Cockburn Association) and with the Scottish Civic Trust. He also
served for a number of years as Chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland. He and his wife moved to Stoneyhill in 1995 and has since become involved with the Musselburgh Conservation Society and the Musselburgh Horticultural Society. Through his paternal great grandmother, a member of the Dudgeon family of Musselburgh, he boasts a family connection with the Honest Toun and is particularly delighted to learn that his father acted as Sasher to the honest Lad and honest Lass over half a century ago. His own early recollections of Musselburgh are of the tram journey to Waterloo Place down to play Loretto at Newfield and then retire, hurt or triumphant, to Luca’s afterwards.
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