Forestry Memories Image Library = Benmore Forestry School students

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	Norman Davidson
	1964

Benmore Forestry School students - Uig Nursery

Taking a break from a working session in Uig Nursery, Benmore, Dunoon are the 1963-65 session students. At the time the Head Forester was John Jackson and Assistant Forester ? Jolly.
Sitting in back of little Bedford lorry, the school transport, is L-R: Alex Herd, John Povall, Jim Pratt.
Standing are: Pat MacAulay, Norman Davidson.

Seated are: Gilly Dunbar, Len MacRae, Brendan Jones, Ken Ellis, Dave Corner
Picture Added on 18 March 2007.

Comments

Today I have just heard that John Jackson is still living in his own house in the Dunoon area at the very respectable age of 102 years!! Amazingly he will have witnessed two commercial crops of trees come and go on his old forest.
Added by Norman Davidson on 05 June 2007.

re;- benmore Forestry School students -Uig Nursery ? Jolly is probably J. M. Jolly esrtwhile Head Forester of Kirkhill Forest, Aberdeenshire.
Added by Alexander Robertson on 03 April 2008.

The Jolly you mention could possibly be Dave Solway.He worked in the area, and played cricket for the school at Benmore.
Added by Pat Mc Auley on 13 April 2008.

Thanks Alexander and Pat you have just helped dig a bit further into my slipping memory cells. Dave Solway name is now more familiar at Benmore. I did come across a J(Jim?) Jolly when I worked at Atholl Estates Calvine section just prior to going to Benmore - he was a Commission forester and looked after the planting areas at Trinafour, probably outliers of Rannoch Forest.

As a follow up to the John Jackson comment I have just seen a note in the Slasher (FCA section) that John died at the end of January 2008 - 5 days short of his 102nd birthday.
Added by Norman Davidson on 20 April 2008.

Don't know about Dave Solway at Benmore but I know for a fact he was a Forester at Glenfinart Ardentinny for a number of years.
Added by John McIntyre on 23 June 2008.

A Jim Jolly was a forester on Glen Errochty when Faskally students were planting there, I think in spring 1964. He was eventually in charge of Kirkhill Forest near Aberdeen
Added by Abbie Gordon on 07 February 2011.

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