VIP Visits
1988 BBC “Thanks a Million”
Another big day at Ratho was when the BBC sent a film crew to film for the Children In Need Appeal. It was such a lovely sunny day and the children from Graysmill School in Edinburgh who sailed on Mackay Seagull, were very good and full of excitement. The BBC showed the film on the ‘Thanks a Million’ Show programme and it was very well done. The Trust was given £5,000 from the previous year’s appeal and this film showed how we had spent the money. The Trust received some will deserved publicity.
Stewart Stevenson MSP, Scottish Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change, 7 April 2007
Viscount Arbuthnott, Prior of the Scottish Venerable Order of St John 1984
In the early summer of 1987 Ratho had the privilege of a further visit from Viscount Arbuthnott and Lady Arbuthnot, this time in his role as the Queen’s representative to the Church of Scotland General Assembly and they sailed on the newly opened section of the Union Canal from Calder Crescent to Ratho.
Malcolm Rifkind MP
Lord Provost of Edinburgh Lesley Hynds
Above with Marshal Napier and Ronnie Rusack.
Steering Crusader with David Mieras
Aneka Rice