Alexander Henry's 200th birthday - Monday 4th June

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Alexander Henry's 200th birthday - Monday 4th June

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This Monday coming is Alexander Henry's 200th birthday.

Someone suggested it would be a great idea to go fire yours this weekend, or even better, on Monday. If you do - post some photos or a video !

I'll nip down to Warriston cemetery on Monday.

An exhibition on Alexander Henry starts in The People's Museum, High Street, Edinburgh on 8th June, running until September, if you're in town.
https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/ven ... ory-museum

There will be an article in a major Scottish newspaper in the next fortnight

Richard Brown
Henry's great great grandson

https://youtu.be/jx9B99zpdcU
http://donalddallas.com/henry.html
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Happy 200th birthday !
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This exhibition started today - runs until 9th Sept :

https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/wha ... nder-henry
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RichB wrote:This exhibition started today - runs until 9th Sept :

https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/wha ... nder-henry
The exhibition is still on, with a probability of being extended for 2-3 weeks.
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The exhibition on Alexander Henry in The People's Story Museum, Canongate, Edinburgh runs until w/c 24th September, if you're in town.

https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/ven ... ory-museum
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Here are a couple of photos I've taken. I don't see any harm now, in that you probably live hundreds if not thousands of miles away, and there's only a week or two of the exhibition to go ?

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The iconic photo, in the entrance hall, just as we were setting up

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Details on the International Exhibition, the book of letters, and AH certificates

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Some panels on the walls

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The three rifles on display

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Some of Henry's personal medals, and details on the Volunteers

There are other views I need to take photos of, and I'll add them later.

The video is running on a loop too.
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The case in the Museum entrance hall contains The Henry Challenge Vase (its first public outing for … maybe a century?), a silver salver made to commemorate the Royal Review of 1860 by the builders of the staging used at the Royal Review in Queen’s Park in 1860, and a QERV busby … not necessarily THE busby as worn in the iconic Henry portrait photo.
(Sorry to say two light bulbs are currently out in the case).

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