Personalities behind The One o'clock Gun
Staff Sgt. Tam McKay M.B.E.
Staff Sergeant Tam McKay M.B.E. was Edinburgh Castle's longest serving District Gunner. A colourful character, popular wth the press, Tam the Gun was The One o'clock Gun Association's first chairman. Photograph courtesy of John Thomson.
Tam with 25 pounder. Photographs courtesy of John Dallas M.A.
Ross and Holly Aynsley with Tam in 1997. Ross and Holly's grandfather is John Peat one of the clockwinders who drop the time ball on the Nelson Monument. Photograph courtesy of John Peak.
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