Pride of the Hill are a loyalist flute band from Carnmoney. Carnmoney is a small village attached to Glengormley which is in the Newtownabbey area just outside Belfast. Pride of the Hill have members from all over Newtownabbey and Belfast and always welcome members from any area.

Our uniform in the late 1990's/early 2000's            POTH walking through Queens Park
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Pride of the Hill were formed in the year 1985 and from then the band have grown strength to strength throughout the years to the current day. Throughout the years the band have had numerous uniforms ranging from sky blue and red in the early days to more recently black, red and gold. In 2002 were went in a new style altogether with the uniform being dark navy with red and silver trimming and this was the 1st uniform we have had with peaked hats. Since then the uniforms we have got have not included jackets but have been shirts, peaked hats and trousers.  As you can see in our new band badge our band is in loving memory of David Lee and Kris Muckle and we wear their name with pride.  David Lee was one of the founder members of the band and we felt it appropriate to have our band in loving memory of David.  Kris Muckle was also a long serving member of our band who sadly died in 2007.  The band is honoured to carry their names with us on every parade we do.

POTH walking through Glengormley & Cloughfern
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When the band was formed the band walked on average with 4 drummers and 8 flutes to present the band is walking with 15 drummers and 30 flutes on our books and hopefully this can continue to increase. This is a perfect example at how we have progressed. Pride of the Hill always welcome new members to the band, which is once a week.

POTH standing at Mauds ally in Carnmoney
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Previously when Pride of the Hill was started the band attended Orange parades around the country but the band has now progressed through the years and became more well known and we currently attend Orange parades all over Northern Ireland and Scotland including competition parades too.

Finally I would like to make it clear that Pride of the Hill are not connected to any organisation.