‘A momentous occasion': Twelfth to be held in Dundonald for the first time in almost 60 years
The last time it was held there was 1967 - when Lyndon B Johnson was in the White House, Harold Wilson was in Downing Street and The Beatles released Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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