Forestry Memories Image Library = Tommy Inch with workmates, Kiltarlity

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Tommy Inch with workmates, Kiltarlity

Tommy, on the right, seizes a photobreak with is workmates. Jock "the fiery", who worked the engine is the younger man on the left, but who is in the middle?

Born in 1907, in Culburnie, near Kiltarlity, Tommy Inch started his forestry career working with Frank Sime’s sawmill, Balgate, Kiltarlity probably around 1925. He worked as a sawmiller, both around the Beauly area and further afield, usually for Sime. Later he managed “Tommy’s Mill”, Fanellan, for Sime for a number of years, until injury precipitated his retirement, in 1960. He then worked, freelance, for Crichton, in Beauly. He set up as a subcontractor in 1963, employing three men - Dave Innes, Bob Reid and Alec Campbell - until his retirement in 1969.

That area around Kiltarlity was a hotbed of forestry activity during the war. According to Tommy’s daughter, Shona Selkirk, to whom Forestry Memories is indebted, Tommy spoke about both the Canadian lumber camp and also the “Poles Camp” below Teanacoil House.

Were berets headgear of choice for sawmillers? Who is the man in the middle?
Picture Added on 14 January 2010.

Comments

The man in the middle of the picture is Willibald (Willie) Zuckert, who came to Scotland as a refugee after the war. He married a local woman and had four children, and settled in Kiltarlity.

Added by Anon on 09 April 2010.

Willie Zuckert died on Nov 23, 2009 aged 84.According to his obituary in the April Kiltarlity News he worked for the Forestry Commission from the mid 1950's and for much of his married life lived in one of the Forestry Commission houses near Glenconvinth School.
Added by Shona on 30 April 2010.

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