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A study of a Scottish Papermill and Forest
Paper, by T.H. Masterton, the pdf scan is of a school book from around 1970. It explains t...
FC Diamond Jubilee - Staff Newspaper Slasher Item
Some articles from the FC staff newpaper 'Slasher' the Jubilee edition distributed in 1975...
FC Diamond Jubilee - Staff Newspaper Slasher Item
Some articles from the FC staff newpaper 'Slasher' the Jubilee edition distributed in 1975...
FC Diamond Jubilee - Staff Newspaper Slasher Item
Some articles from the FC staff newpaper 'Slasher' the Jubilee edition distributed in 1975...
FC Diamond Jubilee - Staff Newspaper Slasher Item
Some articles from the FC staff newpaper 'Slasher' the Jubilee edition distributed in 1975...
FC Diamond Jubilee - Staff Newspaper Slasher Item
Some articles from the FC staff newpaper 'Slasher' the Jubilee edition distributed in 1975...
FC Staff Waiting for bus at side of A9
The image courtesy of Mike Phillips, Newton. This group of forestry gentlemen appear to...
History of Plough Development in British Forestry
Image courtesy of FC Huntly Office. This is one of a series of four illustrated articles ...
Plough
Trailed Tine Plough...
Staff at Hallyburton Forest - 1954
Photograph courtesy of Jim Webster, Mosstodloch. A few years after coming out of Forest...
10 South Laggan - Shian Cottage
This house was a 3 up 3 down tied forestry house. John 'Jock' MacRae lived here between 1...
1946 Group photo
The reverse of the photo states "Spring 1946" and the name "Hughie MacDonald" in the corne...
1953 Storm in Whitehaugh Forest and clear up
This file is courtesy of Forestry Commission office, Huntly. This decription of the Jan...
1955-57 Class Prize winners at Faskally
Image is courtesy of Sheila Matheson, Lochinver. Walter Paterson finishing his 2 year t...
1980 FC Annual Report Appendices
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery, who provided a whole seri...
22RB on road to Rosarie Quarry
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. A front loading shovel version of...
7 lb English axe head
Axe head courtesy of Roy Neish, Buckie. Roy has kept his axe (without shaft) that he us...
A & F Grant lorries in Glenmulliach Forest
Photograph courtesy of Will Anderson, Seafield & Strathspey Estates. Will comments: â€...
‘No rivalry but different’
The third in a series of Touchwood History publications (2010) this one highlighting the s...
‘Smell of the rosin - noise of the saw’
The first of a series of Touchwood History publications this one highlighting the story of...
‘The forest is a beautiful place to be’
The second in a series of Touchwood History publications (2008) this one highlighting the ...
'‘The forgotten forest’
The fourth in a series of Touchwood History publications (2011) this one highlighting th...
Access policy of yesteryear
Sign illustrating the grudging access policy of yesteryear. Thanks to Jake Willis, Sunart...
Achnamara
The village of Achnamara at head of Loch Sween - No Knapdale - Argyll (c)The Scotsman P...
Adam and Eve at Blackstand Bothy
Partially uncovered mural of Adam and Eve at the Blackstand Bothy. Blackstand, now in t...
Aerial fertilising - BEAS Helicopters
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour. This is a companion photograph of no 445 s...
Aerial fertilising - BEAS Helicopters
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Visit by school children to B...
Aerial fertilising - BEAS Helicopters
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. BEAS helicopter taking off wi...
Aerial fertilising - Forest of Deer
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour. Emslie Wilson, Bill Scott and Edith Wilson...
Aerial Fertilising by Helicopter- Ariundle, Sunart
Autair helicopter possibly piloted by Peter Nutting switching buckets. Having just dropped...
Aerial Fertilising Guidance System
In this case at Ardnamurchan forest area, Glenmore, the aircraft dropped fertiliser over a...
Aerial fertilising with BEAS helicopter
Photograph courtesy of Roy Neish. Aerial fertilising in Clashindarroch Forest about 1973...
Aerial fertilising with BEAS helicopter G-AWFY
Photograph courtesy of Roy Neish who is sitting aboard the helicopter in Clashindarroch Fo...
Aerial Fertilising with Cessna aircraft G - AXFF
Photograph courtesy of Roy Neish who is in the aircraft seat. This is the same aircraft a...
Aerial Fertilising with Fixed wing aircraft
One of the few occasions that fixed wing aircraft were used to fertilise plantations with...
Aerial view of Kirkney Hill, Clashindarroch
Picture courtesy of family of late Davy Anderson, former Chief Forester. The aerial photog...
Aerial View of Pulp Mill Site
An aerial view of the pulp mill site, a former Naval repair base. The housing that now ex...
AG & WJ Riddoch Ltd staff social event in Keith
Photograph courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. AG and WJ Riddoch Ltd Annual party held at ...
Alastair Young leaving Dornoch
Donald Beaton (District Forester), a keen photographer, produced a number of photographic ...
Alean Forest road making 1966
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. Operators lined up with their mac...
Alean Forest road making 1966
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. Douglas Archibald driving Interna...
Alean Forest road making 1966
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. Douglas Archibald driving Interna...
Alean Forest road making 1966
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. Douglas Archibald driving Interna...
Alex Bowie in the Bin Forest circa 1930
Photograph courtesy of Ron Bowie, Huntly. This is an early photograph of Alex Bowie who...
Alex Forbes - Laich of Moray Forest
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery. A friendly wave from ...
Alex MacLeman at Benmore Forestry School
Alex MacLeman at Benmore Forestry School about 1935 limbering up for a go at an event in t...
Alex MacLeman at Duncraig, Plockton
Photograph courtesy of Don MacLeman shows his father Alex MacLeman, (next to camera) at t...
Alex Macleman at Inchbae Forest, Garve circa 1940
Photograph courtesy of Don MacLeman shows his father Alex MacLeman (holding pipe) with a f...
Alex Macleman at Inchbae Forest, Garve circa 1940
Photograph courtesy of Don MacLeman shows his father Alex MacLeman (middle front row with ...
Alex MacLeman at Morangie Fire
Photograph courtesy of Don Macleman who goes on to say ‘T D Cotter-Craig was District Of...
All Terrain Vehicle - early version
Photograph courtesy of Pat McAuley. This was demonstrated to Benmore Forestry Students in...
Alp Cable crane extracting timber at Altsaigh
Picture courtesy of Jim Pratt and photographer Graham Whistler FBIPP FRPS. Series of pho...
Altsaigh slopes above A82 - Loch Ness
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt and photographer Graham Whistler FBIPP FRPS. This photog...
Ancient tree roots in Rannoch Forest
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory Duncan says ‘Typical Barracks area p...
Archaeology in Rannoch Forest
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Duncan recalls: ‘Bill Aitken from ...
Ardentinny Team, Glen Finart Area
Back: Jack McPherson, John (Jock) McIntyre, Donald McPherson, Unknown, Jock McDonald. Fro...
Ardross Forest Working Plan
Plan is courtesy of North Highland District Staff who recovered it from the former Dornoch...
Article on Benmore Forester Training School 1954
Mike Phillips, Newton, has passed on a cutting of an article from possibly the Scot’...
At Hobseat, Fetteresso Forest
Picture courtesy of family of Davy Anderson. Senior staff from Forestry Commission on tour...
Atlas1304 loading DAF Tipper- Bennachie
Photograph courtesy of George Beaton (Kintore)thought to about 1994 Excavator and tippe...
Auchterawe Nursery, Fort Augustus
Photograph courtesy of Willie Cameron, Rogart. This group photograph shows mainly peopl...
Auchterawe Nursery, Fort Augustus 1948
Photograph courtesy of Willie Cameron, Rogart. WJ Cameron in Auchterawe Nursey (Fort Au...
AUDIO - BBC Reconstruction
This is a reconstruction of a BBC interview with Mr. Spraggan, the Area Manager at Fort Au...
AUDIO - Bob Dunsmore talks about his first day
Bob Dunsmore talks about is first day at the FCS in Glen Quoich, near "Hell's Glen"....
AUDIO - Peter Quelch talks about old foresters
from his early days in the forestry - characters, conventions and taboos....
AUDIO - Sandy Bell talks about foreign workers.
Sandy Bell talks about foreign forestry workers, with some interuptions from Monty....
AUDIO - Sandy Bell talks about the pay parade.
Sandy Bell tells of what you had to go through to collect your pay....
AUDIO - Sandy McLure talks about nursery work
- the various tasks needing done, and a foreman's uusual method of rainfall measurement....
AUDIO Charlie Greenlees talks about his early days
and an abortive attempt at roadbuilding. Click on "audio" above to hear it....
AUDIO -Sandy Bell - social life in Argyll villages
Sandy Bell compares now to then and talks about the social scene amongst the villages....
Aultmore Forest squad in road material quarry
Photograph courtesy of Frank Calder, Enzie. Another excellent photograph from Frank showi...
Avelling Barford grader circa 1984
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. Douglas Archibald driving new Ave...
Bags of Sitka spruce cones at Newton Nursery
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. One of the stores at Newton Nursery fil...
Barracks section of Rannoch Forest
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. A view over the ploughed landscape at ...
Beatrice Cumming - Timber Corps
This photograph courtesy of John Baillie, Garmouth is of Beatrice Cumming of Rothes (later...
Bellows driven fire warning horn
Fort Augustus, home made date unknown....
Bemore Forester Students - Edinburgh Botanical Gds
Photograph courtesy of Pat McAuley. A group of Benmore students gathering to play cricket...
Bemore Forester Training Students -1st year group
Photograph courtesy of Pat McAuley. The 1st year group of students are heading out to a w...
Bemore Forestry School students 1949 - 51 group
Photograph courtesy of Willie Cameron, Rogart. This group photograph taken at a work si...
Bemore Forestry School students 1949 - 51 group
Photograph courtesy of Willie Cameron, Rogart. This group photograph taken in the Benmo...
Benachie Sawmill Squad, 1914
Bennachie Sawmill, 1914. Norman’s father, Frank Christie (age 20)is front right. He wa...
Benmore Forester School class Circa 1936
Photograph courtesy of Don MacLeman whose father Alex MacLeman was in this student class a...
Benmore Forester School class Circa 1936
Photograph courtesy of Don Macleman, son of Alex MacLeman former Chief Forester. Alex MacL...
Benmore Forester School students 1950 -52 & 51-53
Photograph courtesy of Mike Phillips, Newton, Elgin. A group of students from Benmore F...
Benmore Forester School students 1950 -52 & 51-53
Photograph courtesy of Mike Phillips, Newton, Elgin. Benmore forestry students mainly f...
Benmore Forester Training School 1952
...
Benmore Forester Training School circa 1946
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Benmore ForesterTraining School - 1964
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt showing the Billiard Room, Benmore. John Povall at the...
Benmore ForesterTraining School - 1964
Front view of the training school which was formerly a large mansion house and gardens bui...
Benmore ForesterTraining School - 1964
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt. A view from across the extensive front lawn showing the...
Benmore ForesterTraining School - 1964
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt. This photograph shows in more detail the purpose built ...
Benmore ForesterTraining School - 1964
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt. A view of the building used as a Forester Training Scho...
Benmore ForesterTraining School - 1964
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt shows back of Benmore House and what would have been the ...
Benmore ForesterTraining School - Met Station
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt shows the comprehensive little Met station at the Benmore...
Benmore Forestry School area circa 1950
Photograph courtesy of Jean Maclean, Laide. This was one of the photographs in Kenny Ma...
Benmore Forestry School Football Team
Photograph courtesy of Don MacLeman shows his father Alex MacLeman 5th from left standing ...
Benmore Forestry School students - Uig Nursery
Taking a break from a working session in Uig Nursery, Benmore, Dunoon are the 1963-65 sess...
Benmore Forestry School students - Uig Nursery
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt. The students of the 1962-64 session in Uig Nursery gain...
Benmore Forestry School Students 1950
Photograph courtesy of Jean Maclean, Laide. Probably about May 1950 as the students are...
Benmore Forestry School Students in Nursery 1950
Photograph courtesy of Jean Maclean, Laide. This photograph has a hand written note on ...
Benmore Forestry Student planting Sitka spruce
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt. Pat McAuley, Benmore Forestry School student, busy plan...
Benmore Forestry Student planting Sitka spruce
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt. The photograph shows Pat McAuley wielding the spade and...
Benmore Forestry Students
Picture courtesy of Frank Thom. This group of 1st and 2nd year students from Benmore Fores...
Benmore Forestry Students - Mark and Measure
Photograph courtesy of Pat McAuley. A little bit of posing perhaps but too dark to photog...
Benmore Forestry Students planting site - Bernice
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt. The landscape photograph shows clearly the Bernice Gap ...
Benmore Forestry Students planting site - Bernice
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt. View from high up on the Bernice Gap planting site in t...
Benmore Forestry Training School - June 1965
Last Class of students just before Benmore, Dunoon, finally closed as a FC forestry school...
Benmore House - Forestry School base
Photograph courtesy of Jean Maclean, Laide A fine view of Benmore House in 1950 the For...
Benmore Sequoia Avenue 1950
Photograph courtesy of Jean Maclean, Laide Sequoia Avenue Benmore in 1950 which shows t...
Bert Legge and son on BTD8 - Huntly area
Picture courtesy of Ronnie Legge, Huntly. Taken about 1967. Bert Legge and his youngest...
Bert Legge driving Cuthbertson Buffalo Tractor
Photograph courtesy of Ronnie Legge, Huntly who goes on to say: ‘I can remember seein...
Bert Legge on a new County Tractor - Durris Forest
Picture courtesy of Ronnie Legge, Huntly. Taken Circa 1961. Bert Legge (Huntly) on a ne...
Bert Legge on County ploughing tractor
Picture courtesy of Ronnie Legge, Roads Foreman Aberdeenshire. Picture of Ronnie's father,...
Betty Wilson - Timber Corps
This photograph is courtesy of John Baillie, Garmouth and shows Timber Corps lady Betty Wi...
Bill McCook Planting at Monaughty Forest
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Bill McCook is seen here planting Sitka...
Billhook
This one is a Yorkshire bill. It is a two handed type. Many of the English counties had th...
Bin Forest - Burma road construction
Second picuture of log book sent in by Mr D MacTavish which his father had kept as a recor...
Bin Forest - Burma road construction
First page of a work log book sent in by Mr D MacTavish of Pontygates, Llanelli, which bel...
Bin Forest Forest Worker Holding No3
Images courtesy of Ian Bremner, Keith Ian has submitted several documents relating to h...
Bin Forest squad in nursery at Ordbrae circa 1936
Photograph courtesy of Ron Bowie, Huntly. The image shows what is taken to be some of t...
Blackhall Forest - Dick Sanderson
Photograph courtesy of Bill Taylor, Enzie. At Blackhill Forest, Banchory, trapper Dick Sa...
Blackstand coldstore grafitti
Coldstore grafitti at Blackstand, probably 1980s....
Blown sand at Culbin Forest
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Sand blown onto arable fields at Grange...
Bob McLaren on Tillypronie Estate tractor
Image courtesy of Bob McLaren, Logie Coldstone. A young Bob McLaren, circa 1959, drivin...
Bob Pym on new forest raod at Barracks circa 1965
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Barracks section of Rannoch Forest wit...
Bogged JCB JS130 in Elchies Forest about 1985
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. The JCB JS130 is shown bogged at ...
Bogged Lokomo at Tomnavoulin
Photograph courtesy of Will Anderson, Seafield & Strathspey Estates. Will Comments: â€...
Bogged ploughing tractor - Benmore in Shin Forest
'Where did I leave my piece bag?' Bogged Caterpillar D4D tractor and double furrow plough ...
Bogged ploughing tractor - Benmore in Shin Forest
Donny Junor's Super Low Ground Pressure Caterpillar D4D with double furrow trail plough in...
Bogged Poclain Excavators at Dunbeath
Photograph courtesy of Willie Cameron, Rogart. Bogged Poclain diggers at Dunbeath. A co...
Boots, log calipers and chainsaw rivet driver.
Fort Augustus area, date unknown....
Boots, peavys and an adze head
Fort Augustus area. Date unknown. Peavys are used for turning logs....
Bruce Douglas
Plodda DF...
Buchan Forest District open day at Huntly Office
Buchan Forest District held a series of very successful Open Days to the general public at...
Bunzeach Forest road maintenance
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. Douglas Archibald outside the roa...
Buried pine tree at Culbin Forest 1990
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Foresters Willie Baird and Gordon Rae s...
Bush Nursery nr Edinburgh
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. Photograph of Bush Nursery nr Edinbur...
Bush Nursery nr Edinburgh
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. Photograph of Bush Nursery nr Edinbur...
Bush Nursery nr Edinburgh
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. Photograph of Bush Nursery nr Edinbur...
Bush Nursery nr Edinburgh
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. Photograph of Bush Nursery nr Edinbur...
Bush Nursery nr Edinburgh
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. Photograph of Bush Nursery nr Edinbur...
Cable crane extraction - Glen Nevis
Load of pulp just hauled into skyline and about to be dragged down hill to roadside. Dougi...
Cable crane training - artificial spars
A training course held in Glengarry? for harvesting foresters in the working and managemen...
Cable crane training - Isaacson Winch
Training event in Glengarry with Hugh Thom and Alec Sandilands as instructors about 1971. ...
Cable crane training - Isaacson Winch
Training event in Glengarry with Hugh Thom and Alec Sandilands as instructors about 1971. ...
Cairnbaan 1930s
Canal with lock and road curving through glen with wooded hills on either side. Ruined cot...
Cairnbaan 1934 Timber Yard
View looking down on the canal. A motor boat is sailing towards the lock. A yacht is moore...
Cairnbaan Village and Canal
Small thumbnail size slide found in a forestry office drawer along with another of two for...
Cairngorm Bridge washed away, 5 Aug 1978
The second washaway of the Cairngorm bridge. The first, in 1960, is the subject of other p...
Cairngorm road repairs, 1960
Shot of the newly repaired Cairngorm road after the 1960, washaway. There were a few cars ...
Caledonian Pine at Sron na Croiche, Rosehall,Lairg
Dornoch Forest District Native and Broadleaved Woodland Photographs 1987 – 1992 Do...
Captive Capercailzie
A captive capercailzie in the Rothiemurchus forest. Walter Dempster’s father also Walter...
Casting snow from fences at the Bin Forest
Photograph courtesy of Ron Bowie, Huntly. This is an image of 5 men from the local Bin ...
Cat D7 bogged at Fochabers area
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. The Cat D7 ploughing tractor MGN5...
Cat D9 Ploughing Tractor - Restock at Devilla
Very little info other than taken in 1973 at Devilla. The tractor Reg No MGN581L looks ver...
Caterpillar furrower
J Ross (Tractor Driver) Moor ploughing in a Caterpillar Tractor August 1937....
Chain tensioning tool from Charlie Smith
Chain tightening tools courtesy of Charlie Smith, Huntly. As a former and still working...
Challenger 33 heavy plough Tractor
Picture courtesy of Norman Sutherland, Kemnay. The photograph shows a Challenger 33 trac...
Challenger 33 in Glendevon
Picture courtesy of Norman Sutherland, Kemnay who was the operator of this Challerger 33 t...
Challenger 33 in Glendole
Picture courtesy of Norman Sutherland, Kemnay who was the operator of this machine. This C...
Charles Kennedy visit
In May 1998...
Charlie Greenlees
models a forestry uiniform from the 1950's. Photo taken in 2006, Lochgilphead, Argyll....
Charlie lassoing reindeer
Charlie Ferguson gets a lesson in lassoing from Mikel Utsi, mid 50s. The reindeer were br...
Christmas Party at Glentress circa 1947
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Christmas Party at Glentress circa 1948
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Christ's passion, mural, Blackstand.
One of the best Blackstand Murals, depicting the passion of Christ. Blackstand, now in ...
Circular saw blade at Charlie Smith's mill
Four foot six inch diameter insert tooth saw blade courtesy of Charlie Smith, Huntly. T...
Circular saw setting tools from Charlie Smith
Saws setting tool courtesy of Charlie Smith, Huntly. As a former and still working sawm...
Circular saw setting tools from Charlie Smith
Saws setting tools courtesy of Charlie Smith, Huntly. As a former and still working saw...
Civil Engineering staff farewell to Sandy Milne
Photograph courtesy of George Beaton (Kintore) Retirement of Sandy Milne (Inspecting Mech...
Clashindarroch Forest History 1930 - 1952 Part 2
This is the final part of Clashindarroch Forest History containing 20 odd pages on Appendi...
Clashindarroch Forest History 1930 -1952 Part 1
I have loaded a large 40 plus page report under the PDF button. This is a long and convolu...
Clashindarroch Supervisor List dated 1952
This is a page of an extensive 75 page Forest History written for the Clashindarroch Fores...
Clearfell at Dalcataig, Glenmoriston
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt and photographer Graham Whistler FBIPP FRPS. Photograph ...
Clearfell site at Fetteresso
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Newly felled area in Fetteresso Forest...
Clearing 1953 windblow in Deeside
Photograph courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. One of a series of 7 high quality photograp...
Clearing 1953 windblow in Deeside
Photograph courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. One of a series of 7 high quality photograp...
Clearing 1953 windblow in Deeside
Photograph courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. One of a series of 7 high quality photograp...
Clearing 1953 windblow in Deeside
Photograph courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. One of a series of 7 high quality photograp...
Clearing 1953 windblow in Deeside
Photograph courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. One of a series of 7 high quality photograp...
Clearing 1953 windblow in Deeside
Photograph courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. One of a series of 7 high quality photograp...
Clearing 1953 windblow in Deeside
Photograph courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. One of a series of 7 high quality photograp...
Clearing snow Aultmore Forest, Moray
Photograph courtesy of Frank Calder, Enzie. A winter scene on the main road into Aultmore...
Clearing up after the Queen of the Bin blew down
Photograph courtesy of Ron Bowie, Huntly. This photograph was taken in the winter of 19...
Close up of Sitka spruce seedlings, Newton Nursery
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Sitka spruce seed bed in Newton nursery...
Clothing 1980s
Forestry jacket and shirt, 1980s, with Benmore Forestry School Tie....
Coal Board Pitwood Price List 1965
Image courtesy of Charlie Smith, Huntly. Pitwood Price list published annually by James...
Coastal erosion at Culbin Forest 1983
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Sea erosion along the coast line at Cul...
Coastal erosion control work at Culbin Forest 1973
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Zig zag wooden groynes built into the f...
Coastal erosion control work at Culbin Forest 1974
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Groynes catching sand on the shoreline ...
Coastal erosion control work at Culbin Forest 1974
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Groynes breaking up wave action on sea ...
Collecting Cones from Seed Orchard
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Alan Duncan from Newton Nursery comment...
Collecting Scots pine cones from seed orchard
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Alan Duncan from Newton Nursery comment...
Compartment Record of Cluny Area - (Scare Wood?)
Image courtesy of Forestry Commission office, Huntly This old hand written record of plan...
Cone collecting - The tree-net
Used especially for small-coned species, once set up the tree-net was a time effective met...
Cone collection in North America 1976 and 78
Mike Phillips (Newton) as part of his work role visited the west coast of Northern USA and...
Cone gathering: The cone-rake
The cone-rake can be used in conjunction with other tools, such as the tree bicycle, for p...
Cone gathering: The tree bicycle
The Swiss device was used for climbing straight and branch-free stems. Easy to transport a...
Contolled pollination of larch at Newton Research
Photograph courtesy of Mike Phillips, Newton, Elgin. First controlled pollination of la...
Corpach Pulp Mill
The Corpach Pulp Mill 1964-1981. Stretching from the two 'dolphins' cranes on the islet, ...
County 4X4 and Vibrating roller
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. George Henderson is driving the Cou...
County Crawler
Caithness. On its way down, a last desperate attempt to get a tow rope fixed! The driver...
County Crawler II
Tractor after de-bogging, June 1965, Caithness....
Couple with Cupid
Couple with Cupid, Blackstand mural. Blackstand, now in the possession of the McKeggie ...
Craigievar Estate after 1953 gale
Image courtesy of Bob McLaren, Logie Coldstone. After effects of the Jan 1953 gale on C...
Craigievar Estate after 1953 gale
Image courtesy of Bob McLaren, Logie Coldstone. After effects of the Jan 1953 gale on C...
Craigievar Estate after 1953 gale
Image courtesy of Bob McLaren, Logie Coldstone. The location is the behind the Head Kee...
Craigievar Estate after 1953 gale
Image courtesy of Bob McLaren, Logie Coldstone. After effects of the Jan 1953 gale on C...
Cross cut saw bought to clear trees in 1953 gale
Saw courtesy of Norman Ramsay, Huntly. Norman has this four foot Henry Disston saw whic...
Cross cutting on swing table saw bench circa 1955
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Converting tree trunks into specific le...
Cross draining at Aultmore Forest, Moray
Photograph courtesy of Frank Calder, Enzie. The full cross draining team in action at Aul...
Cross draining at Aultmore Forest, Moray
Photograph courtesy of Frank Calder, Enzie. Jimmy Sangster on his Track Marshall tractor ...
Cross draining at Aultmore Forest, Moray
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour. Cross draining the ploughed hill at Aultmo...
Cross draining at Aultmore Forest, Moray
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour. Circa 1967. Cross draining the ploughed h...
Cross draining at Aultmore Forest, Moray
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour. Cross draining the ploughed hill at Aultmo...
Cross draining in Rannoch Forest
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory Dun says ‘Not sure of location, pro...
Cross draining in Rannoch Forest
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory Duncan says ‘Not sure of location, ...
Cross draining in Rannoch Forest
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Duncan says ‘Not sure of location, ...
Crossing Loch Sunart to Glencripesdale
Photograph courtesy of Arthur Bickerstaffe who holidayed in the area in the 1960s. John M...
Crossing Loch Sunart to Glencripesdale
Photograph courtesy of Arthur Bickerstaffe who holidayed in the Ardnamurchan area in the 1...
Culbin Forest - buried tree stem
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Another view of a tree in Culbin Fore...
Culbin Forest - In the snow
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Duncan says: ‘Snowy scene at Culbi...
Culbin Forest - Visiting groups
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Duncan Menzies (green shirt with tie...
Culbin Forest aerial photograph circa 1950
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Early black and white photograph of C...
Culbin Forest aerial photograph circa 1972
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Good aerial shot showing spit at entr...
Culbin Forest and buried trees circa 1980
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Digging out buried tree at Culbin Fore...
Culbin Forest erosion and build up of sand banks
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Plan possibly by SM Ross? showing 'on...
Culbin Forest erosion of coastal dunes
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Erosion of a large dune which was ini...
Culbin Forest planting on dunes circa1950
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Photograph showing Forest Workers pla...
Culbin Forest thatching on dunes circa1950
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Landscape view of part of Culbin Fore...
Culbin Forest tower view point opening in 2008
Photograph courtesy of Ronnie Legge, Huntly The occasion is the opening of the tower vi...
Culfoldie Sawmill, 1927
Culfoldie Sawmill owned by Riddochs of Rothiemay, 1927. Frank Christie is front left. ...
Culvert at Bochel Wood, Glenlivet
Photograph courtesy of Will Anderson, Seafield & Strathspey Estates. Will comments: â€...
Curling at Perth
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory ‘Four FC staff representing East ...
Cuthbertson Type F plough
Photgraph courtesy of family of the late Davy Anderson, former Chief Forester. This is an ...
Cuthbertson Water Buffalo tractor
Pictures and details of the Cuthbertson Water Buffalo courtesy of John Flett, Dounby, Orkn...
Cutting the paper
A jet of water cuts the edge off the paper web before it solidifies....
D2 at Barracks section of Rannoch Forest 1959
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. The D2 involved in laying out fencing...
Dalavich Ferry 1952
Horse pulling the ferry up onto the beach in 1952. The ferry is the easiest way to reach c...
Dalavich Holiday Houses
Leaflet offering holiday homes to let in Dalavich, Argyll. Probably 1970s/80s....
Deep draining plough
Possibly in Glen Creran...
Deer fence dug out from the snow at Bin Forest
Photograph courtesy of Ron Bowie, Huntly. This is an image of the dug snow track, six f...
Deer shoot at Black Corries, Rannoch Forest
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. End of a Deer shoot at Black Corries (...
Deer's foot lamp
lampstand made with by product of forestry industry....
Delgaty Forest - Forest Squad 1967
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff The working squad at Delgaty F...
Delgaty Forest - Forester and Trapper
Photgraph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff Emslie Wilson in his role as tr...
Delgaty Forest Office
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff The Delgaty Forest office sit...
Deliveries of Wood by Road
While woodchips from Nova Scotia accounted for a large amount of the chips processed, the ...
Description of soil profile from the soil pit
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. Obviously fascinated by the work goin...
Desk tidy and Parallel rule
Images courtesy of John Allison, Aberdeenshire and Moray Forest District. Surveying of ...
DF Plodda
DF Plodda Discovery Mast...
DG visitation to Rumster
Donald Beaton (District Forester), a keen photographer, produced a number of photographic ...
Dickson and Innes report 1957, Port Clair image
This is an image of a sample plot Port Claire forest, planted in 1932. The image comes fro...
Dickson and Innes report, 1957, p101.
This page comes from a report by Dickson and Innes, two senior foresters, based in Inverne...
Dickson and Innes report, 1957, p74
This page comes from a report by Dickson and Innes, two senior foresters, based in Inverne...
Dickson and Innes report, 1957, p75
This page comes from a report by Dickson and Innes, two senior foresters, based in Inverne...
Dickson and Innes, 1957, p102
This page comes from a report by Dickson and Innes, two senior foresters, based in Inverne...
Dickson and Innes, 1957, p103
This page comes from a report by Dickson and Innes, two senior foresters, based in Inverne...
Digging snow from fences - Glenlivet Forest
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour taken by her husband Jack Christie when he w...
Digging snow from fences - Glenlivet Forest
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour taken by her husband Jack Christie when he w...
Discovery masts
Peeling DF Plodda...
Discovery masts
Plodda DF Timberjack Skidder...
Dobbin and colleagues, Glenkindie, 1942
Courtesy of Nigel Barron. The people are unknown, but Dobbin, used to give Nigel Barron...
'Dolphins' - Cranes
On an Islet just off of The Pulp Mill were two cranes or Dolphins, as they were known, tas...
Domestic scene, Blackstand mural
Domestic scene, Blackstand mural Thanks to the McKeggie family....
Don Amer at Glentrool circa 1964
Photograph taken at Glentrool courtesy of Don Amer, Blairgowrie. Don has written an ac...
Don Amer in Radio Branch office, Dunkeld circ 1988
Photograph courtesy of Don Amer, Blairgowrie. Don was in charge of the Forestry Commiss...
Donarin Scarifier in Fetteresso Forest
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Timberjack 4 wheel drive timber extrac...
Donarin Scarifier in Fetteresso Forest - 1994
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Rear view of Timberjack 4 wheel drive ...
Donarin Scarifier in Fetteresso Forest - 1994
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Rear view of Timberjack 4 wheel drive ...
Dornoch Forest District Staff - circa 1987 to 1989
Donald Beaton arrived at Dornoch Forest District circa 1985 as District Forester in charge...
Dornoch Forest District Staff - circa 1990 to 1991
Donald Beaton arrived at Dornoch Forest District circa 1985 as District Forester in charge...
Dornoch Nursery photographic record 1987 - 1989
(This image shows a map of Dornoch nursery) See the PDF for photographs of nursery and...
Dornoch Nursery photographic record 1987 - 1989
Donald Beaton arrived at Dornoch Forest District circa 1985 as District Forester in ch...
Dornoch Nursery photographic record 1987 - 1989
Donald Beaton arrived at Dornoch Forest District circa 1985 as District Forester in ch...
Dornoch staff at Loch Maree
Donald Beaton (District Forester), a keen photographer, produced a number of photographic ...
Double furrow mounted tine plough at Rannoch
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Tine ploughing in Rannoch Forest. The t...
Double furrow mounted tine plough at Rannoch
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. The business end of a ‘mounted’ tin...
Double furrow trail plough at Rannoch Forest
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. A nice rear shot of a Double furrow plo...
Douglas fir in Scotland
Photograph shows the Chilliwack region of British Columbia (top right)the estimated source...
Draining plough bogged
Callop plantation near forestry gate at head of Loch Shiel, Glenfinnan. part of this area ...
Draining Tools Barracks, Rannoch Forest Circa 1965
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. The main tools of the hill hand draini...
Drott in Rosarie quarrie 1989
Picture courtesy of Norman Sutherland, Kemnay. Hanomag Drott operated by Norman Suther...
Drum flail on Atlas in Drumtochty Forest
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. Atlas 1404M operated by Douglas A...
Drummond Hill Forest road making 1964
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. Douglas Archibald driving Interna...
Duncan Jamieson and Jock Brodie circa 1958
Photographs courtesy of John Brodie, Mold, N Wales who has sent in photographs of his fath...
Duncan Jamieson and Jock Brodie circa 1958
Photographs courtesy of John Brodie, Mold, N Wales who has sent in photographs of his fath...
Duncan Jamieson and Jock Brodie circa 1958
Photographs courtesy of John Brodie, Mold, N Wales who has sent in photographs of his fath...
Duncan Jamieson with Challanger 33 and plough
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Jamieson, Insch. Duncan is operating a Challenger 33 tra...
Duncan Menzies, Rannoch Forest circa 1965
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Duncan Menzies, Forester at Rannoch Fo...
Duncraig - Head Forester's House, Salen
Photograph courtesy of Arthur Bickerstaffe who spent holidays in the Ardnamurchan area dur...
East Scotland Conservancy Office (Aberdeen) outing
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery. This is East Scotlan...
East Scotland Conservancy Office (Aberdeen) outing
This is East Scotland Conservancy (Aberdeen) staff outing to Laich of Moray Forest and aro...
Emslie Wilson presentation - 1992
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness. Presentation at Buchan Forest District O...
Erecting radio mast Cairn Mon Earn
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Kincardine Forest District Kockums ope...
Ex-forestry truck put out to grass...
Alasdair Cameron tells us that this Haflinger was retired to the farms of the Black Isle a...
Exide Bicycle Torch
Images courtesy of John Allison, Aberdeenshire and Moray Forest District. Old Exide tor...
External shot of Blackstand Bothy (top) floor.
Above the cold store is the Blackstand Bothy with the murals. Blackstand, now in the po...
Extracted Douglas fir - Inchnacardoch Forest
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt and photographer Graham Whistler FBIPP FRPS. Large Dougl...
Extracting Douglas fir at Dalcattaig Invermoriston
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt and photographer Graham Whistler FBIPP FRPS. In this sce...
Extracting timber by cable crane
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Extracting by skyline cableway at unkno...
Extracting timber with Highland Bear at Altsaigh
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt and photographer Graham Whistler FBIPP FRPS. Highland Be...
Extracting timber with the Alp Cable Crane
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt and photographer Graham Whistler FBIPP FRPS. Hugh Greig...
Family of woodsmen
Ian McInnes, a retired sawmiller, is the sixth generation of his family to be involved in ...
Faskally Forester Training School 1953-55 Class
The year is also unknown. Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images ...
Faskally Forester Training School 1954 - 56 Class
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Faskally Forester Training School 1955 - 57 Class
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Faskally Forester Training School 1961-63 Class
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Faskally Forester Training School 1961
Photograph courtesy of John McNeill, Kirkcudbright. Faskally Forester Training School b...
Faskally Forester Training School 1961
Photograph courtesy of John McNeill, Kirkcudbright who took the photograph of 1st year stu...
Faskally Forester Training School 1962
Photograph courtesy of John McNeill, Kirkcudbright who also provided many of the names. Ab...
Faskally Forester Training School 1962-64 Class
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Faskally Forester Training School 1964-66 Class
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Faskally Forestry School - 1964
Photograph courtesy of Bill Taylor, Enzie. At Faskally Forester Training School in 1964 s...
Faskally Forestry School circa 1960?
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Faskally Forestry School Class of 1956-58
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory, who has also provided the names against t...
Faskally Forestry Students - 1964
Photograph courtesy of Bill Taylor, Enzie. Relaxing at Faskally Forester Training School ...
Faskally Forestry Students - 1964
Photograph courtesy of Bill Taylor, Enzie. Students at Faskally Forester Training School ...
Faskally Forestry Students - 1964
Photograph courtesy of Bill Taylor, Enzie. Students at Faskally Forester Training School ...
Faskally House Circa 1930??
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Faskally Students at Rannoch Forest 1958
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory The students on a day visit from Faskal...
FC - 75th Anniversary Staff Newsletter - Slasher
Courtesy of FC and Douglas Archibald, Banchory who kept a copy. Special anniversary staff...
FC Diamond Jubilee- Staff Newspaper -Slasher Item
Some articles from the FC staff newpaper 'Slasher' the Jubilee edition distributed in 1975...
FC Diamond Jubilee- Staff Newspaper -Slasher Item
Some articles from the FC staff newpaper 'Slasher' the Jubilee edition distributed in 1975...
FC launch on Loch Carron
Photograph courtesy of Don MacLeman. Alex MacLeman (standing on right) was forester for b...
FC Staff at dance in Golf View Hotel, Nairn
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Forestry farewell dance for Duncan Men...
Felling Douglas fir at Dalcataig, Invermoriston
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt and photographer Graham Whistler FBIPP FRPS. Felled Do...
Felling Gang, Farigaig Forest
Photograph courtesy of Willie Cameron, Rogart. Taking a break from work in Farigaig For...
Felling team working on larch circa 1922
Photograph courtesy of Jean Cranna, Drumblade, Huntly Photograph shows Jean’s father,...
Felling team working on Norway spruce circa 1922
Photograph courtesy of Jean Cranna, Drumblade, Huntly Photograph shows Jean’s father ...
Felling trees in Gartly Moor Forest
Photograph courtesy of Roy Neish who is in action felling a thinning rack in Gartly Moor i...
Felling Trees in Gartly Moor Forest
Picture courtesy of Roy Neish who is seen working with a Husqvarna 162 chainsaw. Note all ...
Felling with hand saw circa 1950s
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. An excellent photograph of position and...
Fence material lift by helicopter, Braulen Estate
Photograph courtesy of Will Anderson, Seafield & Strathspey Estates. Will comments: ...
Fertilising at Aultmore Forest, Morayshire
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour. Photograph taken by Jack Christie The Hill...
Fertilising at Aultmore Forest, Morayshire
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour The Hiller Helicopter of Management Aviatio...
Fertilising at Aultmore Forest, Morayshire
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour. Photograph taken by Jack Christie The Hill...
Fertilising at Aultmore Forest, Morayshire
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour The Hiller Helicopter Reg G-ATOM or G-ATDM ...
Fertilising at Aultmore Forest, Morayshire
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour Three Aultmore Forest staff with their land...
Fertilising at Aultmore Forest, Morayshire
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour. Photograph by Jack Christie The Hiller Hel...
Fertilising Operation in Helmsdale Forest
Photograph courtesy of Willie Cameron, Rogart. Helicopter in Helmsdale Forest parked an...
Field testing prototype Huntly Herbicide Applicato
Photograph courtesy of family of Davy Anderson, former Chief Forester. Location is Ardonal...
Field testing prototype Huntly Herbicide Applicato
Picture courtesy of family of Davy Anderson former Chief Forester. Roy Neish is trying out...
Field testing prototype Huntly Herbicide Applicato
Photograph courtesy of family of Davy Anderson, former Chief Forester. Some of the Bin and...
Fire Hut - Aultmore Forest, Morayshire
Photograph courtesy of Frank Calder, Enzie. Frank Calder, in person, up in the Fire Hut o...
Fire Sign
The famous signs that were popular 'collectors items'...
Fire Tower
Fire tower at Aldie Hill...
Fire Tower at Culbin Forest
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Forest fire watch tower in Culbin Fores...
Fire Warning Horn
Fort Augustus area. Adapted from a fire bellows!...
First operational harvester in the UK.
Osa 20/706 doubl grip harvester 1985. Knapdale forest, Seafield Road. First operational ha...
First timber clearfell in Rumster
Dornoch Forest District Harvesting Photographs 1987 – 1992 Donald Beaton arrived a...
Five employees Inchnacardoch 1926
These gents were already working on the Inchnacardoch Estate in 1919 when it was acquired ...
Forest accounts
Knapdale forest accounts for Bellanoch horse work. Anyone know when they stopped using hor...
Forest Fire fighting demonstration at Dallas
Photograph courtesy of Will Anderson, Seafield & Strathspey Estates. Will comments: â...
Forest Nursery Tour - Alltcailleach
Photograph courtesy of family of Davy Anderson, former Chief Forester. One of a series of ...
Forest Nursery Tour - Altonside Nursery
Photograph courtesy of family of Davy Anderson, former Chief Forester. This is one of a se...
Forest Nursery Tour - Newton
Picture courtesy of family of Davy Anderson, former Chief Forester. This is one of three p...
Forest of Deer - Office Party
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour. Office party! Uncertain of year. A very d...
Forest Officers Helmet
The forest officers helmet was standard issue in the 1960s. Thanks to Ian Collier....
Forest Postings Letter 1963
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Abbie has kept his first postings lette...
Forest walks guide book
for Knapdale forest, Argyll....
Forest Worker Hostel, Rannoch Forest 1959
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. The workers hostel at Bridge of Gaur, Ra...
Forest workers shirt
Argyll, 1960s....
Forester Training Schools 1904 - 1971
With the kind permission of Henry J Smith, Winchester. Cover photograph of a hand produ...
Forester Training Schools 1904 - 1971 PDF 2
With the kind permission of Henry J Smith, Winchester. A photograph from the hand produ...
Forester Training Schools 1904 - 1971 PDF 3
With the kind permission of Henry J Smith, Winchester. A page from the hand produced an...
Forester Training Schools 1904 - 1971 PDF 4
A page from the hand produced and photocopied booklet by Henry Smith and Geoff Waygood. He...
Forester Training Schools 1904 - 1971 PDF 5
With the kind permission of Henry J Smith, Winchester. A page from the hand produced an...
Forester Training Schools 1904 - 1971 PDF 6
With the kind permission of Henry J Smith, Winchester. A page from the hand produced an...
Forester Training Schools 1904 - 1971 PDF 7
With the kind permission of Henry J Smith, Winchester. A page from the hand produced an...
Foresters Alex MacLeman and Ian Mackay
Photograph courtesy of Don MacLeman showing his father Alex MacLeman (Front) and Ian Macka...
Foresters as Scout Masters circa 1950
Photograph courtesy of Cameron MacNaughton, Fort William This is a photograph of a Scou...
Foresters at Hamsterley in 1959
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken. The photographs were h...
Foresters at roadside
Small thumbnail size slide found in forestry office drawer in Huntly along with picture nu...
Foresters House Monaughty Forest
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Duncan says ‘This was taken at Garr...
Foresters Housing Contract
Except from Forestry Housing contract for house in Inverinan. 1969...
Foresters on Black Isle
Meeting of foresters on the Black Isle, 06/09/1938. If you know more about this photo ple...
Foresters Uniform
1950s...
Forestry Commission Chapelhall works, 1980.
This picture shows the staff of the Forestry Commission’s Chapelhall Works in 1980 welco...
Forestry Commission staff curling at Perth
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory ‘Four FC staff representing East ...
Forestry Commission Timber sale Contract
Image courtesy of Charlie Smith, Huntly. Standard Forestry Commission contract signed b...
Forestry dance at Elgin or Fochabers 1970
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Forestry Commission Staff dance in eit...
Forestry gang, 1942
Courtesy of Nigel Barron Forestry gang, Glenkindie, 1942, no names supplied. Same fa...
Forestry Gathering circa 1970?
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Forestry Group
Details on reverse: 1st right, Bill Ingles(Cook) 2nd, Wm Mackay Centre Front Hugh Pennet ...
Forestry group, Auchterawe
Outside the cookhouse. Note that this picture has been printed in reverse! Click on the "L...
Forestry in Dornoch Forest District
Photographs courtesy of North Highland Forest District. Dornoch Forest District Gene...
Forestry in Dornoch Forest District
Dornoch Forest District General Forestry Photographic Record 1987 – 1991 Photographs...
Forestry in Dornoch Forest District
Photographs courtesy of North Highland Forest District. Dornoch Forest District Genera...
Forestry Marking Tool or Scriber
Used for marking trees selected for felling. The pint was used as a pivot for making circl...
Forestry men and Timber Corps women at Loch loy
This photograph showing some Forestry men and Timber Corps women around and in a rough Sco...
Forestry men and Timber Corps women at Lochloy
This photograph is courtesy of John Baillie, Garmouth who worked for some years in the For...
Forestry men and Timber Corps women at Lochloy
This photograph is courtesy of John Baillie, Garmouth is the second showing another rail t...
Forestry men and Timber Corps women at Lochloy
This photograph is courtesy of John Baillie, Garmouth which shows some of the combined tim...
Forestry officials at Corrour Lodge
Back row (l to r) J Maxwell Macdonald (then District Officer in south-west Scotland); A M ...
Forestry on the Orkney Island of Hoy
An article courtesy of Mike Phillips who describes his experiences in an article which he...
Forestry reminscence group
Lochgilphead, December 2006...
Forestry Road, nr Glenmore Lodge
This is on the forestry road between Coylumbridge and Glenmore Lodge, near AlltnaGhabha, w...
Forestry Stands at Highland Show 1969
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Peter Wilson and Bill Scott i...
Forestry Stands at Highland Show 1969
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Stand showing Fowler TM70 tra...
Forestry Stands at Highland Show 1969
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Chainsaw handling, speed and ...
Forestry Stands at Highland Show 1969
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Peter Emslie and Bill Scott i...
Forestry Stands at Highland Show 1969
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Audrey Wilson on a Nuffield t...
Forestry Stands at Highland Show 1969
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Difficult to make out the typ...
Forestry Stands at Highland Show 1969
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. This is the fiftieth annivers...
Forestry Stands at Highland Show 1969
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. In front of a Contractor’s ...
Forestry Students and friends at Darnaway ?
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Forestry Students at Benmore with Bill Stoddart
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Forestry Students at Benmore with Bill Stoddart
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Forestry Students starting 2nd Year at Benmore
Photograph courtesy of Jean Maclean, Laide. Photograph taken at Benmore Forester Traini...
Former Kirkhil Forest office circa 19991
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Kirkhill Office being run down followi...
Fort Augustus Group, Auchterawe Nursery, 1946
Tommy Fraser, Jim Fraser, Jock McLaren, Colin Matheson, Dan Williamson, Colin Campbell, Da...
Fort Augustus Nursery - Weeding Squad Circa 1955
Photograph courtesy of Cameron MacNaughton, Fort William which shows 5 women at their 10 o...
Fort Augustus Nursery - Weeding Squad Circa 1955
Photograph courtesy of Cameron MacNaughton, Fort William which shows women working among t...
Fort Augustus Plantation
On the left hand side, top, is Inverwick Forest with Inchnacardoch below it. The large ye...
Foundations of Pulp Mill
25th October 1963. Dumper Truck preparing the North West Corner of site. Courtesy of Ale...
Fowler tractor with Cuthbertson plough
Photographs courtesy of John Brodie, Mold, N Wales who has sent in photographs of his fath...
Fowler tractor with Cuthbertson plough
Photographs courtesy of John Brodie, Mold, N Wales who has sent in photographs of his fath...
Front of the Blackstand FCS site
Modern picture of the Blackstand site. Blackstand, now in the possession of the McKeggi...
Gartly Moor Squad, 1963
Photo taken around 1962/3 at Gilleston, a part of Gartly Moor Forest. Mixed squad, probab...
Gartly Station forest storage base
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. New Massey Ferguson 50B wheeled d...
George Milton retiral
George Milton's retiral in 1995 attracted a lot of well-wishers to toast George after 45 y...
George Milton retires in style.
George Milton on his retirement receives a handshake from district manager, David Jardine ...
George Riddoch and Son Sales Ledger 1888
Image courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. George Riddoch and Son Sales Ledger 1888 -1891 s...
Glenartney blonden tackle
Glenartney...
Glencripesdale -relocated, refurbished, relettered
When the FCS Forest at Glen Cripesdale was sold to private operators, the staff approriate...
Glenlivet Forest in winter 1963
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour taken by her husband Jack Christie when he w...
Glentress Forester School Football Team 1950
Photograph courtesy of Moira Mackay, Bonar Bridge. Glentress Forestry School Football T...
Glentress Forester Training School Circa1952
Photograph courtesy of Bill Hunter, Spean Bridge. The picture of 6 students at Glentres...
Glentress Forester Training School 1950-52 Class
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie but unfortunately Jack had not written names on the p...
Glentress Forester Training School 1950
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glentress Forester Training School 1952-54 Class
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glentress Forester Training School circa 1952
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glentress Forester Training School 1949-53 Classes
Glentress Forestry School Class of 49-51 and 50-52 Photograph courtesy of Jean Christi...
Glentress Forester Training School 1950
Photograph courtesy of Jim Webster, Mosstodloch. Photograph of the 1948 – 1950 class ...
Glentress Forester Training School camp circa 1950
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glentress Forester Training School circa 1952
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glentress Forester Training School Circa1952
Photograph courtesy of Bill Hunter, Spean Bridge. Students at Glentress Forester Traini...
Glentress Forestry School gala day parade
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glentress Forestry School gala day parade 1950
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glentress Forestry School gala day parade 1950
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glentress Forestry School version of 'The Broons'
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glentress Forestry School version of 'The Broons'
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glentress Forestry School version of 'The Broons'
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glentress Forestry School (Peebles) 1952/53
Picture courtesy of Arkle Fraser retired District Manager of Dornoch Forest District. Sta...
Glentress Forestry School classroom circa 1948
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glentress Forestry School, 1946-48 Class
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glentress Forestry School, 1946-48 class and other
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glentress Forestry School, Class of 1947-49
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glentress Forestry School, Unidentified Class
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glentress students felling after windblow
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glentress students felling after windblow c1948
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Glimpse of LochAwe and new forestry houses at Ford
View down an open hill to a group of new semi-detached houses. The hill is covered in roug...
Gordon Donaldson leaving Dornoch
Presentation to Gordon Donaldson in Dec 1990 on leaving Dornoch Forest District (Head Fore...
Grader and Roller Woking at Bennachie Circa1994
Photograph courtesy of George Beaton (Kintore). Grader and roller working on forest roa...
Grave of Mr Torres, Honduran Forester, Golspie.
Robert Beaton of the Golspie Heritage Society told me that there were about 50 Honduran (a...
Gremo Forwarder working in clearfell Kincardine
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Duncan says ‘I think they're associ...
Guidebook, Loch Awe
for the nature trail and forest walks. Pre-decimalisation, so therefore 1971 or earlier....
Gunter's Chain
Images courtesy of John Allison, Aberdeenshire and Moray Forest District. Image of surv...
Hamish Park Glentress Forester School c 1947
Photographs and images courtesy of Joan Park which shows her father, Hamish Park, during h...
Hand Draining at Barracks, Rannoch Forest c1965
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Hard at the hand draining at Barracks,...
Hand Draining at Barracks, Rannoch Forest c1965
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Hard at work on hand draining is Gordo...
Hand Draining at Barracks, Rannoch Forest c1965
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Working on the hand draining at Barrac...
Hand Draining in Bin Forest - Huntly
Photographs courtesy of the family of the late Davy Anderson, former Chief Forester. The B...
Hand Fertilising at Barracks, Rannoch Forest c1965
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Four young lads loading up the tree pl...
Hand loading lorry with timber poles circa 1955
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Hand loading Scots pine thinnings on to...
Hand Planting and Draining Tool catalogue 1950
I remember the Forestry Commission tool catalogue as late as 1970s and the page on hand pl...
Hangar barn interior, Blackstand.
Former RAF hangar converted into a barn. New cladding on the original shell. May also have...
Hard snowy winter in Ardross Forest circa 1963
Photograph courtesy of Don MacLeman son of Alex MacLeman who was Head Forester in Ardross ...
Harvesting Altsaigh slopes above Loch Ness
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt and photographer Graham Whistler FBIPP FRPS. The photo...
Harvesting kit
Harvesting boots, boot socks, mitts and visor....
Harvesting large Douglas fir at Inchnacardoch
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt and photographer Graham Whistler FBIPP FRPS. County skid...
Harvesting Machinery in Harriet's Wood, Dornoch
Dornoch Forest District Harvesting Photographs 1987 – 1992 Donald Beaton arrived a...
Harvesting site at Blackhall, Kincardine FD
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. I think harvesting in progress at Bl...
Has Loch Morlich changed?
Loch Morlich around 1900 with Walter Dempster’s father (also Walter) and grandmother enj...
Head Forester Willie Skene retirement 1968
Cutting retained by Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff Newspaper cutting of Willie Skene...
Helen Fraser and her grandkids.
Helen Fraser (wife of Jakey) with two of her grand children outside their steel house, Bad...
Helicopter in Glen Creran
Bell helicopter working on fertilisong in Glen Creran. On hire from Dollar Helicopters....
Histories of Forests in North East Scotland
File courtesy of Forestry Commission, Huntly The letter written in 1975 by GGM Taylor f...
History Plough Development in British Forestry 2
Image courtesy of FC Huntly Office. This is one of a series of four illustrated articles ...
History Plough Development in British Forestry 3
Image courtesy of FC Huntly Office. This is one of a series of four illustrated articles ...
History Plough Development in British Forestry 4
Image courtesy of FC Huntly Office. This is one of a series of four illustrated articles ...
History Whitehaugh Forest, Aberdeenshire 1934-51
History courtesy of Forestry Commission Office, Huntly. A number of these Forest Historie...
History of Forest of Deer - Aberdeenshire1926 - 51
Courtesy of Forestry Commission Office, Huntly. The attached PDF (click on PDF below imag...
History of Forest of Deer, Aberdeenshire 1926-51
Courtesy of Forestry Commission Office, Huntly. The attached PDF (click on PDF below imag...
History of Forestry Ploughs
This is the first of a series of three excellent, detailed and very descriptive articles b...
History of Plough Development in British Forestry
...
History of Riddochs
Following 8 years working as a railway clerk and 3 years in the Royal Navy, Sandy Tough jo...
History of Riddochs
Images courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. A. G. and W. J. Riddoch Ltd., wood merchants ...
Home made montage - view of Dalavich
View of Dalavich, home-made by Margaret Gauld nee Stewart....
Horse and horseman, Benachie (Bennachie?), 1914
Benachie sawmill, 1914. Unknown horseman taking logs to mill. Photo courtesy of Norma...
Horse extraction at Scolty Forest
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Horse extraction with Swedish Arch at S...
Horse working in log hauling
Name of horseman and also horse? Courtesy of Margaret Gauld nee Stewart...
Hugh and Moira MacKay leaving Ratagan
Presentation to Hugh and Moira MacKay on their departure from Ratagan in 1978. Presenting ...
Humpy draining plough at Rannoch
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Humpy draining plough with double whee...
Huntly Herbicide Applicator development
Picture courtesy of family of Davy Anderson former Chief Forester. Davy Anderson is sta...
Ian and Elsie Bremner at Bin Forest Holding No3
Images courtesy of Ian Bremner, Keith. Ian Bremner and his mother Elsie are in the Chic...
Ian and Elsie Bremner Bin Forest Holding No3
Images courtesy of Ian Bremner, Keith The photograph shows Ian Bremner and his mother, ...
Ian Fraser leaves for work
Ian Fraser ready for work outside his ‘steel’ home at Badaguish, late 1940s. Ian move...
Information letter on new Riddochs Ltd
Images courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. Information note from WW Macaskill the Managing...
Inverlussa House in Achnamara
Drawing by Andrew L Hunter of INverlussa House in Achnamara, where Frances Plummer, who pr...
Invitation to Opening of Farigaig Forest Walk
Image of card courtesy of Moira Mackay, Bonar Bridge. Formal invitation to Hugh Mackay ...
Isaacson Cable Crane - Glen Nevis
John Dodds from Caol sorting the timber on the pulp stack. He and Dougie Stansfield operat...
Isobel MacLeman in snow at Ardross
Photograph courtesy of Don Macleman which shows his mother Isobel working in a heavy fall ...
Isobel Thain - Timber Corps
This photograph is courtesy of John Baillie, Garmouth who obtained the photographs from Is...
Iternational 125 tracked dozer about 1984
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. The photograph shows Internationa...
Jack and Mary at the Visitor Centre opening
Jack Fraser with land agent, Mary McLennan, at the opening of the visitor centre, 1991. ...
Jack Evans, Prof John Matthews, Tom Woolridge
Possibly on a RSFS day outing. The photograph is courtesy of Mike Phillips, Newton. The...
Jakey and Helen Fraser and shy granddaughter, Moy.
Jakey Fraser and wife Helen with one of their grandchildren at Moy, in their retirement. ...
James Jones Harvesting Machines Circa1972
Photograph courtesy of Heather McPherson. These two machines was snapped in Ten Rood Wood...
James Jones Highland Bear Forwarder
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt and photographer Graham Whistler FBIPP FRPS. James Jones...
James Thom retirement presentation
Picture courtesy of Gordon Thom retired ganger. Retirement of James Thom who worked at C...
Janet Clark retires from Moray Forest office
Image courtesy of Helen Grant, Huntly. Retirement of Janet Clark as Clerical Officer fr...
Jenkins Park Forestry Houses at Fort Augustus
Photograph courtesy of Mike Phillips, Newton, Elgin. Overview of the Forestry Commissio...
Jim Connell ploughing at Barracks circa 1965
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Jim Connell on his ploughing tractor K...
Jim Connell ploughing at Barracks circa 1965
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Jim Connell on his ploughing tractor K...
Jim Sangster on Atlas 1304 Excavator - Circa 1994
Photograph courtesy of George Beaton (Kintore). Excavator working on forest road making...
Jim Webster at Hallyburton Forest
Photograph courtesy of Jim Webster, Mosstodloch. A few years after coming out of Forest...
Jimber Jills felling trees Garlogie or Corsindae
Picture courtesy of John Coutts husband of late Gladys Coutts WTC. Picture taken in 194...
Jimmy Carmichael planting at Rannoch
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Jimmy Carmichael, Forest Worker at Ra...
Jimmy Mair going over the Struie
Shot taken at the Stuie viewpoint looking back towards Bonar Bridge. Jimmy Mair in his old...
Jimmy Riddoch presentation
...
Jimmy White felling at Monaughty Forest
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Felling Douglas fir planted in the 1920...
Jock "The Fiery" has a smoke
Jock, the engine man at Balgate Sawmill, Kiltarlity, has a break from his labours. Photo b...
Jock Brodie on D4 caterpillar
Photographs courtesy of John Brodie, Mold, N Wales who has sent in photographs of his fath...
Jock Brodie on Fowler Tractor
Photographs courtesy of John Brodie, Mold, N Wales who has sent in photographs of his fath...
Jock MacRae
This picture is taken above Loch Oich, to the left is the area where the Great Glen Water ...
Jock MacRae
Jock retired in 1967 after 40 years in the Forestry and moved to Caol where he lived until...
John (Jock) Baillie about 1948
This photograph is courtesy of John (Jock)Baillie, Garmouth, of himself at about the time ...
John Keenleyside - Dublin Bothy Essay
A familiar face to many in the FCS, John Keenleyside recently retired after a life working...
John McLeod - Head Forester - Sunart Forest
Photograph by Arthur Bickerstaffe who used to holiday in the Ardnamurchan area in the 1960...
John Strachan - WW2 Operational Base - Bin Forest
Former Forestry Commission employees John Strachan and Roy Neish (right)discuss the war ti...
Johnston Edwards presentation at Clashindarroch
Picture courtesy of Gordon Thom retired Ganger. Photograph taken about 1935 but could be a...
Joining clip for driving belts
Machine driving belt joining clip courtesy of Charlie Smith, Huntly. The saw mills were...
Keil Camp, Fuinary, Lochaline, Morvern
This old forestry camp in Fuinary Forest used to be a WWII refugee camp. The site is sched...
Keil Camp, Fuinary, Lochaline, Morvern
This old forestry camp in Fuinary Forest used to be a WWII refugee camp. The site is sched...
Ken McRae - self employed tree surgeon
In the early 1970s Ken started up his own tree surgery practice, before returning to Edinb...
Ken McRae at Bonchester Bridge
Ken McRae had a lifelong career in forestry, with the FCS in the early days prior to worki...
KenMcRae and colleagues at Bonchester Bridge
In the early days of his forestry career Ken McRae was stationed at Bonchester Bridge in t...
Kenny Smith at Rannoch Forest circa 1965
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Young Kenny Smith (ex Derby) with his ...
Keyring from the Blackstand Coldstore
Original keyring from the Blackstand coldstore, obviously clipped from a Forestry Commissi...
Kincardine District retirement of Jim Chalmers
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory Duncan recalls ‘This was a retirement...
Kincardine Forest District office circa 1991
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory Kincardine Forest District office scen...
Kincardine Forest District presentation crca 1988
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. George Murray (District Forester For...
Kirkhill Forest office circa 1978
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory Kirkhill Forest Office with Jimmy Allan...
Knapdale Retirement Party, 1982
Argyll. Are you here? Do you know anyone?...
Kockums forwarder working in clearfell
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Duncan says ‘I think they're associ...
Kockums forwarder working in clearfell
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. 15 Tonne Kockums over turned on diffic...
Larch Cones collection at Newton
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory Seed collection of larch cones from see...
Large Circular Protractor
Images courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. The protractor was one of the main tools u...
Large map area measuring grid
Images courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. The large area dot planimeter was a very c...
Launch of the Prof. H. M. Stevens tribute cairn
Glen Affric Caledonian Forest reserve. Prof Stevens two sons are centre front. The rest a...
Laying out
Len Stewart, father of the contributor Margaret Gauld nee Stewart, "laying out" a tree to ...
Leaving party at Dornoch
Donald Beaton (District Forester), a keen photographer, produced a number of photographic ...
Lenabo Forest - Lenabo Airship Base 1914-1919
This plan is courtesy of Great North of Scotland Railway Association who drew up plan. T...
Letter request from R B Farquhar, Rhynie
Image courtesy of Charlie Smith, Huntly. ‘Hastener’ letter from RB Farquhar of Rhyn...
Lifting and bundling Sitka spruce, Newton Nursery
Photographs about 1980 courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Sitka spruce trees which hav...
Lining out at Lower Nursery, Pitfichie Forest
Photograph courtesy of George Beaton, Kintore. On left is young George Beaton with his co...
Lining out machine at work - location unknown
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Lining out machine at unknown location ...
Lining out plants with Ledmore Plough
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Lining out machine possibly about 1965 ...
List of Tree and Shrubs in Benmore Gardens 1951
Photograph of avenue in 2011 courtesy of Don Wood, Balerno. Mike Phillips, a former res...
Loading heavy timber with mobile crane circa1955
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Loading large logs with lorry crane ont...
Loading logs at Dalcataig, Invermoriston
Photograph courtesy of Jim Pratt and photographer Graham Whistler FBIPP FRPS. Riddochs lo...
Loch Etive Sawmill
...
Loch Etive Sawmill
...
Lockhart's Mill in the Bin Forest circa 1919
Image courtesy of Patrick Scott, Huntly Sawmill belonging to Dan and Archie Lockhart s...
Lodgepole pine, Newton Nursery
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Lodgepole pine trees (1.5+0.5) growing ...
Logg Sawmill, 1926
Logg Sawmill near Fochabers, 1926. Frank Christie standing at back with arm against mill ...
Logging and samill camp, poss Eskadale
Shot looking North North West, over the River Beauly, from Eskadale. Logging camp and temp...
Logs for Riddoch
Derek Mair, Lochaber district, sent this shot in of his father James Mair (L) and Bill Din...
Lokomo Draining Plough
Shot of the Lokomo Draining plough at the British Forestry Heritage Collection at Ae Fores...
Lokomo Plough and International Tractor - Aultmore
Photograph courtesy of Frank Calder, Enzie. Frank Calder’s son, Colin, dwarfed in fro...
Lokomo Plough at Aultmore
Photograph courtesy of Frank Calder, Enzie. This shows the Lokomo plough blade and main p...
Long service award to Duncan Jamieson
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Jamieson, Insch. Duncan Jamieson is receiving his Long S...
Long Service Award to James Strachan, Huntly
Photograph courtesy of James Strachan, Huntly showing his father’s long service presenta...
Long Service Award to James Strachan, Huntly
Photograph courtesy of James Strachan, Huntly, showing his father’s long service present...
Long Service presentation to Emslie Wilson
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson. Emslie Wilson being presented with his long service...
Long Service presentation to Emslie Wilson
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Emslie Wilson’s retirement ...
Lorry log lifting - Fort Augustus area
...
Lost in Glencoe, found in Argyll.
Thanks to Ken Bowker, who located this sign in Duror. Not his house, that's what he is say...
Lumberkids, Uig, 1945
Joyce Holt writes... "The shortage of labour at this time <1945, during the war> was grea...
Lunch in the forest at Durris
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Duncan recalls: ‘Sombre lunch brea...
Mark 1 Chainsaw
Supposedly it had such a kick it took two men to start it up!...
Mary Current in the Women's Timber Corps
Mary Current, at the right end of the front row, was stationed at Aberuthven Forestry Cam...
Mary Current of the Women's Timber Corps
Mary Current is in the centre of his picture, taken in 1943 or 44. She served at Aberuthve...
Maxproof hood
for inclement weather....
Meeting of Foresters
Foresters meeting on the Black Isle 6th September 1938. Billy Mackay's Dad is 5th left on...
Men and horses, Donside, 1910
Upper Donside, c1900-1910. Norman’s grandfather, Gregor Christie on far left. He was a...
Mikel and Charlie tend reindeer
Mikel Utsi with his young apprentice, Charlie Ferguson, tending reindeer at Utlsi’s Hut ...
Mikel and Charlie tend reindeer
Mikel Utsi with his young apprentice, Charlie Ferguson, tending reindeer at Utlsi’s Hut ...
Millbuie Forestry Houses Circa 1970
This picture is courtesy of Newton research station and was headed Millbuie Forestry House...
Monaughty Forest - Deep cultivation
Photograph courtesy of George Beaton (Kintore) Ploughing machine operator Bob Esson (fr...
Monaughty Forest - Visiting family
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Forestry Commission photograph to pub...
Monaughty Forest work squad circa 1927
Mike Phillips, Newton, has passed on two cuttings of a picture from possibly a local paper...
Monkey Winch
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. Photograph from Bush Estate nr Edinbu...
Moray Forest District and Engineering Staff
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery. The location was the S...
Mosstodloch
Fish boxes...
Mosstodloch Mill
Riddochs of Rothiemay...
Mounding for replanting at Fetteresso
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Mounding with tracked excavator and V ...
Mounted Tine Plough - Glenbranter - Fiat 70
Side view of previous Fiat 70 tractor picture showing raised plough and the tine sock that...
Mounted Tine Plough- Glenbranter - Fiat 70
As in the two previous photographs this shows a Fiat 70 Reg No YYR824H with its mounted ti...
Mounted Tine Ploughing - Glenbranter - Fiat 70
According to title on slide this was taken in Glenbranter in 1974. The Fiat 70 tractor has...
Mr Annand - Divisional Officer
Mr Annand was a divisional officer, sometime round 1930. This shot was scanned from a p...
Mr Cameron - District Officer - Fort Augustus
Mr. Cameron was the District Officer in Fort Augustus around 1930. This shot was scanne...
Mr Hunter Blair - District Officer
Mr Hunter Blair was a Forestry Commission district officer round about 1930. This shot ...
Mr Scott - Divisional Officer
Mr. Scott was a divisional officer with the Forestry Commission in Scotland sometime aroun...
Mr. Murray- Divisional Officer
Mr. Murray was a divisional officer with the Forestry Commission round about 1930. This...
Musketeers mural, Blackstand.
Probably the best of the Blackstand Murals, depicting a scene, probably from Dumas' "The T...
Nanny Archibald - Timber Corps
This photograph is courtesy of John Baillie, Garmouth and shows Timber Corps lady Nanny Ar...
Nanny Stephen, Lumberjill - Glenurquhart
Nanny Stephen gets a short break from her labours as a lumberjill during WWII. Though not ...
New Picture
...
New road at Barrcks, Rannoch Forest circa 1965
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Charlie MacGillvray at front of the sq...
New timber lorry with hydraulic crane
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. This appears to be a demonstration of t...
Newhall Moor Ploughing
Ploughing for planting. The plough is a Caterpillar (with Twenty Two written above it)...
Newspaper clippings from Fort Augustus
Newspaper clippings from Fort Augustus, with some mention of Forestry Commission partnersh...
Newton Nursery 1981 Forest Research Station
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. This photograph shows an example o...
Newton Nursery 1981 Forest Research Station
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Open Day in Newton Nursery and Res...
Newton Nursery 1981 Forest Research Station
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Controlled pollination work being ...
Newton Nursery 1981 Forest Research Station
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Collecting cones from larch trees ...
Newton Nursery 1981 Forest Research Station
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Pouring Scots pine cones from the ...
Newton Nursery 1981 Forest Research Station
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Open Day in Newton Nursery and Res...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery 1936
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery from a small collection of...
Newton Nursery cold starage of plants 1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Struan Stewart, Chief Forester, La...
Newton Nursery cold storage of plants 1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Struan Stewart, Chief Forester, La...
Newton Nursery cold storage of plants and seed1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Struan Stewart, Chief Forester, La...
Newton Nursery cold storage of plants and seed1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Struan Stewart, Chief Forester, La...
Newton Nursery cold storage of plants and seed1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Struan Stewart, Chief Forester, La...
Newton Nursery dipping transplants 1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. A close up shot of unidentified nu...
Newton Nursery dipping transplants 1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. A close up shot of unidentified nu...
Newton Nursery dipping transplants 1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. A close up shot of an unidentified...
Newton Nursery land area plan 1931
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton. Copy of the plan drawn in 1931...
Newton Nursery lifting transplants 1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Hand lifting of Sitka spruce trans...
Newton Nursery lifting transplants 1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Unidentified nursery worker tying ...
Newton Nursery lifting transplants 1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Close up of Fobro plant slackener ...
Newton Nursery lifting transplants 1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Alan Duncan and Colin Fraser (next...
Newton Nursery lifting transplants 1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. ‘Dyke’ Murray pulling a line o...
Newton Nursery lifting transplants 1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Hand sheughing in of broadleaves t...
Newton Nursery lifting transplants 1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. |Early mechanised plant lifting wi...
Newton Nursery lifting transplants 1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Close up of Fobro plant slackener ...
Newton Nursery loading transplants 1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Loading the nursery lorry with bun...
Newton Nursery loading transplants 1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Loading the nursery lorry with bun...
Newton Nursery open day 1981
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery. Open day in 1981 celeb...
Newton Nursery open day 1981
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery. Open day in 1981 celeb...
Newton Nursery open day 1981
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery. Open day in 1981 celeb...
Newton Nursery open day 1981
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery. Open day in 1981 celeb...
Newton Nursery open day 1981
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery. Open day in 1981 celeb...
Newton Nursery open day 1981
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery. Open day in 1981 celeb...
Newton Nursery seed beds and Bill McKenzie
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton who has also provided the details ...
Newton Nursery Transplants 1981
Photographs courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Appears to be small lots of Sitka ...
Newton Nursery work squad circa 1948
Mike Phillips, Newton, has passed on a cutting of an picture from possibly a local paper...
Newton Seed and Clone bank 1980
The image courtesy of Mike Phillips, Newton, shows an aerial view of the northern section ...
Newton Seed Bank - working on larch
The images are courtesy of Mike Phillips, Newton, who worked at Newton Research Station ...
No admittance sign
Sign from forest entrance stating that the roda is closed to traffic but that foot acces w...
North Conservancy senior staff at Culloden
Photograph courtesy of Ernie Michie, Inverness who has named most of the staff. The event ...
North Scotland Conservancy senior staff at Stome
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. David’s photograph shows senior Nor...
North Scotland Conservancy senior staff at Strome
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. David’s photograph shows senior Nor...
North Scotland Staff – mid 1970
Back row L to R: Graham Hamilton, DO Lochaber District, Torlundy, Fort William Howard B...
Nursery coldstore shelves, Blackstand
New plants were raised in a controlled environment. Thanks to the McKeggie family....
Ode to Spruce by Hugh Mackay, Farigaig 1965
Image courtesy of Hugh Mackay (son). Norman Davidson recalls: ‘Making up the plant...
Operational Base in Ba Hill Wood, Huntly
The current photograph taken in 2011 shows Jimmy Reid standing in the remains of the Ba Hi...
Operational Base in Bin Forest
Operational Base – Bin Forest The photograph shows the Bin Forest Operational Base r...
Origins of Scots pine in Scotland nd its diversity
Origins of Scots pine in Scotland and securing its diversity. Photograph courtesy of Donal...
Origins of Scots pine seed in Scotland
Mike Phillips, a former research head forester at Newton, published several papers during ...
Outside the Loch Morlich warden's hut
Elsie Fraser with mother-in-law, Helen outside the Loch Morlich campsite warden’s hut, m...
Overloaded
From Derek Mair, Lochaber District. James Mair bought a new lorry in the 1960s and still ...
Overturned Brunnett at Kincardine
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Close up view of overturned Brunnett a...
Overturned Brunnett at Kincardine
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Recovering overturned Brunnett at Fu...
Overview Newton Nursery, Elgin circa 1980
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Overview Newton Nursery near Elgin with...
Paper Machine
In the finishing end was the paper machine which worked at 17 mph non stop day and night. ...
Peat Removal at Annat
October 1963. Peat Removal from South West corner of the site, by numerous dumperr trucks...
Peeling timber circa 1950s
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Hand peeling Scots pine poles with one ...
Pick up point for Aultmore Forest
Photograph courtesy of Frank Calder, Enzie. Circa 1969 - at the pick up point at Toll B...
Piece Time at Barrcks, Rannoch Forest c1965
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Sheltering in the gravel pit having th...
Plane
Plane 'parked' on Loch Beinn a' Mheadhoin...
Planting at South Laggan
Planting at South Laggan, near Invergarry. Billy Mackay's dad is 2nd left....
Planting squad at Hobseat, Fetteresso Forest
Picture courtesy of family of Davy Anderson. Occasion of a visit to Fetteresso Forest, Nob...
Planting squad at Hobseat, Fetteresso Forest
Picture courtesy of family of Davy Anderson. This record is of a visitation to Fetteresso ...
Planting trees on ploughing
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Unknown planter working on ploughed hil...
Ploughing at Bennachie circa 1955
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Jamieson, Insch. Duncan Jamieson operating a BTD 6 Inter...
Ploughing at Bennachie circa 1955
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Jamieson, Insch. Duncan Jamieson operating a BTD 6 Inter...
Ploughing at Bennachie circa 1955
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Jamieson, Insch. Duncan Jamieson operating a BTD 6 Inter...
Ploughing Corrydown in Clashindarroch Forest
Photograph courtesy of family of late Davy Anderson, former Chief Forester. Description in...
Ploughing Corrydown in Clashindarroch Forest
Picture courtesy of the family of the late Davy Anderson, former chief Forester. Another r...
Ploughing in Achray Forest
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. Photograph of Cuthbertson F type squa...
Ploughing in Clashindarroch Forest
Picture courtesy of family of the late Davy Anderson, former Chief Forester. Side view of ...
Ploughing in Fetteresso 1952
Picture courtesy of family of late Davy Anderson, former Chief Forester. Does anyone know...
Ploughing on rannoch Moor Forest about 1969
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. Two ploughing machine operators h...
Ploughing tractor Fiat 100C with mounted tine
At the time this was a fairly new and larger tractor than the Fiat 70 on which tine plough...
Ploughing Tractors
Unknown tractors (Bowen 60s?) at an unknown site with lorry and Hiab type crane in 1980. T...
Ploughing tractors bogged at Lochans near Lairg 1
Picture No 1 - courtesy of Frank Thom, retired District Forester. Two Caterpillar D4 low g...
Ploughing tractors bogged at Lochans near Lairg 2
Picure No 2 - courtesy of Frank Thom, retired District Forester. The lightweight tracked S...
Ploughing tractors bogged at Lochans near Lairg 3
Picture no 3 - courtesy of Frank Thom, retired District Forester. Len Newman looks on as S...
Ploughing tractors bogged at Lochans near Lairg 4
picture no 4 - courtesy of Frank Thom, retired District Forester. Debogging strategy being...
Ploughing tractors bogged at Lochans near Lairg 5
Picture no 5 - courtesy of Frank Thom, retired District Forester. Dirty, cold and wet! Slu...
Ploughing tractors bogged at Lochans near Lairg 6
picture no 6 - courtesy of Frank Thom, retired District Forester. Angus Ross and Sandy All...
Ploughing tractors bogged at Lochans near Lairg 7
Picture no 7 - courtesy of Frank Thom, retired District Forester. By keeping the water awa...
Ploughing tractors bogged at Lochans near Lairg 8
Picture no 8 - courtesy of Frank Thom. The pull has started! The bogged tractor is moving ...
Ploughing tractors bogged at Lochans near Lairg 9
Picture no 9 - courtesy of Frank Thom. Moving forward and slowly coming onto an even keel ...
Ploughing tractors bogged at Lochans near Lairg 9a
Picture no 9a - courtesy of Frank Thom. 'Come on baby!' or words to a similar and perhaps ...
Pole callipers
Pole callipers courtesy of Charlie Smith, Huntly. This is a set of James Jones eighteen...
Pole trap
Most fence posts were made from round timber, hence the shape. This barbaric devise was us...
Presentation JB Thow,Head Forester Forest of Deer
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Presentation to J B Thow at F...
Presentation JB Thow,Head Forester Forest of Deer
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Presentation to J B Thow at F...
Presentation to Bill Taylor leaving Forest of Deer
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Leaving presentation to W R (...
Presentation to Ernie Michie on leaving Dornoch
Photograph courtesy of Jean Maclean, Laide Presentation around Dec 1983 at Invershin Ho...
Presentation to Henry Stocks, Tulliallan c.1968
Image is courtesy of Sheila Matheson, Lochinver. Retirement and long service certific...
Presentation to Jack Christie, Forester, Aultmore
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour The forest squad from Speymouth and Aultmor...
Presentation to Jim Petrie at Kincardine FD
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory A gathering of Kincardine Forest Distri...
Presentation to Jimmy Allen and George Stewart
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. A retirement presentation to Jimmy A...
Presentation to Jimmy Reid at Kincardine FD
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory Retirement presentation to Jimmy Reid (...
Presentation to John Innes on leaving Dornoch
Donald Beaton arrived at Dornoch Forest District circa 1985 as District Forester in charge...
Presentation to Margaret Milne - Forest of Deer
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour. Presentation to Margaret Milne who was cle...
Presentation to Sandy Tough by Riddochs
Image courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. Presentation to Sandy Tough for 25 years service...
Presentation to Tom Ritchie, Machine Operator 1992
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. Road engineering colleagues and f...
Press info Riddochs of Rothiemay take over
Images courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. Press coverage of the take over of Riddochs of ...
Princess Alexander at Bush Estate on FC Jubilee
Image is courtesy of Sheila Matheson, Lochinver. Sheila (Daughter of Walter and Barbara...
Princess Alexander at Bush Estate on FC Jubilee
Image is courtesy of Sheila Matheson, Lochinver. Barbara and Sheila (Daughters of Walte...
Prototype Huntly Herbicide applicator
Photograph courtesy of family of Davy Anderson former Chief Forester. Prototype handle...
Prototype Huntly Herbicide applicator
Photograph courtesy of family of Davy Anderson former Chief Forester. Close up view of han...
Prototype Huntly Herbicide applicator in action
Photo courtesy of famaily of Davy Anderson. Ted Skeard trying out the prototype applicator...
Pulp Mill Labour Camp
In order to build the Pulp Mill on site lodgings were crucial. These were located just a f...
Pulp Mill Powerhouse
The Pulp Mill taking shape. One of the tallest in Fort William at 170 feet high is the Po...
Pulp Mill Rail Track
Pulp Mill Rail Track and Unloading Bay. The Chlorine was transported to the Mill by rail,...
Quarry working at Cairn Daimh, Glenlivet
Photograph courtesy of Will Anderson, Seafield & Strathspey Estates. Will comments: â€...
Radio Communications - Early days
Thanks to Bill Irvine of Radio and Electronics Branch of FC at Dunkeld for passing this on...
Radio Mast and Hill Top Base
Thanks to Bill Irvine of Radio and Electronics Branch of FC at Dunkeld for passing this ph...
Radio Mast and Hill Top Base - Fiunary
Thanks to Bill Irvine of Radio and Communication branch for sending this photograph in. ...
Radio Mast and Hill Top Base - Glenorchy
Thanks to Bill Irvine of Radio and Conmmunication branch for sending the photograph. The ...
RAF hangar now a barn, Blackstand.
Former RAF hangar converted into a barn. New cladding on the original shell. May also have...
Rannoch Forest - survey team
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Dave Cotton (Forester at Rannoch) lea...
Rannoch Moor Forest road making 1964
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. Douglas Archibald driving Internati...
Reids and MacLemans at Forestry Dance
Photograph courtesy of Don MacLeman taken at Forestry Commission Dinner Dance in the Cummi...
Repairing timber harvester at Fetteresso Forest
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. At work repairing what is possibly a S...
Repairs to the Cairngorm Bridge
Cairngorm Bridge undergoing repairs after the 1960 washaway. The hill behind is Meall a Bu...
Replanting the felled forest at Ratagan
The forest above and slightly west of Ratagan overlooking Loch Duich must have been felled...
Report on native pinewood remnants in Scotland
Mike Phillips, a former research head forester at Newton, published several papers durin...
Research Staff gathering, Roslin 1971
Photograph courtesy of John McNeill, Kirkcudbright who also provided the names. Meetin...
Research Staff gathering, Roslin 1971
Photograph courtesy of John McNeill, Kirkcudbright who also provided the names. Meetin...
Research staff meeting at Helmsdale 1992
Image is courtesy of Sheila Matheson, Lochinver. The photo is from a Silviculture North...
Research Staff working on Sitka spruce nat regen
Photograph courtesy of John McNeill, Kirkcudbright. Silviculture Research Branch staff ...
Rest break - Fence distribution -Glencripesdale
Picture courtesy of Jimmy Cameron (Caol , Fort William but formerly Arivegaig, Acharacle) ...
Retirement event at Kincardine Forest District
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory Admin staff from Kincardine Forest Dist...
Retirement event at Kincardine Forest District
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory Gathering of Kincardine Forest District...
Retirement event at Kincardine Forest District
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory Jimmy Reid on left (Forest Craftsman), ...
Retirement event at Kincardine Forest District
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Gathering of Kincardine Forest Distric...
Retirement event at Kincardine Forest District
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory Gathering of Kincardine Forest District...
Retirement event at Kincardine Forest District
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory Mechanics based at Kincardine, Bob Gord...
Retirement Gift
This clock was presented to Jock MacRae in 1967. The inscription reads: "Presented to Jo...
Retirement Gordon Innes, Forest of Deer
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Presentation to Gordon Innes,...
Retirement of Albert Lowe - Forest of Deer
Paper cutting courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Presentation to Albert Low...
Retirement of Bill Burnett, Forest of Deer
Cutting and photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour. Presentation to Bill Burnett o...
Retirement of Bill Scott, Forest of Deer
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Retirement presentation to Bi...
Retirement of Bob Thomson, Garmouth circa 1973
The image courtesy of Mike Phillips, Newton. Retirement of Bob Thomson from Garmouth (F...
Retirement of Danny Urquhart from the Bin Forest
Image courtesy of Helen Grant, Huntly. The newspaper cutting intimates the retirement o...
Retirement of Doods Macintosh
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery. Thought to be a retire...
Retirement of Doug Elliot from Moray
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery. Moray Forest District ...
Retirement of Duncan Jamieson 1985
Photograph courtesy of Bert Thomson, Archiestown. Long service certificate and retireme...
Retirement of Fred Legge from Newton Research
Photograph courtesy of Mike Phillips, Newton. Fred Legge is seen planting an North Ame...
Retirement of Gladys Cheyne from Bin Forest
Image courtesy of Helen Grant, Huntly. Presentation to Gladys Cheyne on retiring from h...
Retirement of Harold Ritchie - Forest of Deer
Paper cutting courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Farewell presentation to F...
Retirement of Jack Christie as Head Forester
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Presentation to Jack Christie w...
Retirement of Jack Christie as Head Forester
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Presentation to Jack Christie w...
Retirement of Jack Christie as Head Forester
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Presentation to Jack Christie w...
Retirement of Jimmy Reid, Kincardine FD
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory Gathering of Kincardine Forest District...
Retirement of John Ogilvie - Monaughty Forest
Photograph courtesy of Bert Thomson, Archiestown. Retirement presentation in Oct 1971 t...
Retirement of Robbie Adams
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory Retirement event for Robbie Adams who w...
Retirement of Robbie Adams
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory Retirement event for Robbie Adams who w...
Retirement of Robbie Adams
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory Retirement event for Robbie Adams who w...
Retirement of Sandy Shand and Angus Farquhar
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Retirement event around the late 1980s...
Retirement of Sidney Farquhar - Forest of Deer
Paper cutting courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Retirement of Sidney Farqu...
Retirement of Winnie Watson circa 1982
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery. Thought to be the reti...
Retirement of Winnie Watson circa 1982
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery. Thought to be the reti...
Retirement of Winnie Watson circa 1982
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery. Thought to be the reti...
Retirement presentation to Arkle Fraser
Presentation dinner and dance for Arkle Fraser on his retirement as Forest District Manage...
Retirement Presentation to Bert Thomson
Photograph courtesy of Bert Thomson, Archiestown. Retirement presentation to Bert Thoms...
Retirement presentation to John Strachan
Photograph courtesy of John Strachan Presentation to John Strachan, Cairnie of gifts an...
Retirement presentation to Sandy Tough 1991
Image courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. Retirement presentation to Sandy Tough, Office Man...
Riddoch's Lorry and Loader rig - Bin Forest
Photograph courtesy of Roy Neish. Riddochs timber lorry (new loader?) driven by Robbie ...
Riddochs of Rothiemay Ltd presentation
Photograph courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. Possibly a presentation around 1980 to Tom ...
Ritirement - Jimmy Riddoch, Ganger, Forest of Deer
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Slightly damaged photograph o...
RLR Plough
Photograph courtesy of the family of the late Davy Anderson, former Chief Forester. Possib...
RLR trailing plough
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. RLR trailing plough on an unknown site...
Road constrction at Glenmulliach
Photograph courtesy of Will Anderson, Seafield & Strathspey Estates. Will comments: ...
Road maintenance in Kirkhill Forest 1979
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. County 4X4 operator Willie Reid a...
Road making in Rannoch Moor Forest circa 1964
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. Hanomag Drott operated by George ...
Road repairs at Dramlachs, Speyside
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. Repairing a landslip at the Draml...
Road Squad Tippers in Quarry near Rothes
Photograph courtesy of George Beaton of Kintore. Collection of Forestry Commission Tipp...
Rob Anderson, Dalharrold
Donald Beaton (District Forester), a keen photographer, produced a number of photographic ...
Rothiemurchus around 1900
Rothiemurchus at the turn of the 20th century. Mr Gordon’s cottage (left) and the smidd...
Rothiemurchus Smithy
The smiddy on Rothiemurchus, c.1905. Then many houses were made of local wood. Timber wo...
Roy Douglas servicing timber harvester
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Roy Douglas a contractor servicing a t...
Roy Faulkner on last visit before retiring
The image courtesy of Mike Phillips, Newton, shows a small group from the genetics section...
Roy Lister Robinson - Lord Robinson
Roy Lister Robinson - Lord Robinson of Kielder Forest. Seconded to the explosives departm...
Royal Scottish Forestry Society outing? Year 1955?
Picture courtesy of family of late Davy Anderson a former Chief Forester who is standing s...
Royal Scottish Forestry Society receipt
Image courtesy of Charlie Smith, Huntly. Annual subscription to the Royal Scottish Fore...
Royal Scottish Forestry Society Tour circa 1991
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. RSFS tour to Tomintoul and Glenmore. ...
Royal Scottish Forestry Society Tour circa 1991
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Graham Tuley (District Manager Kincard...
Royal Scottish Forestry Society Tour circa 1991
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. RSFS tour to Tomintoul and Glenmore ci...
Royal Scottish Forestry Society Tour circa 1991
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory RSFS tour to Tomintoul and Glenmore. P...
Royal Scottish Forestry Society Tour circa 1991
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. RSFS tour to Tomintoul and Glenmore. ...
Royal Scottish Forestry Society Tour circa 1991
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. RSFS tour to Tomintoul and Glenmore. ...
Rutter spade carving
Carving, by Sandy Robertson, of forester using a rutter or "big spade". Possibly self port...
Safe Driving award - Bill Scroggie Forest of Deer
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. Bill Scroggie, from Old Deer,...
Safety Booklet
I am not sure when this booklet was first published but I remember receiving it about or s...
Sales Ledger for George Riddoch and Son 1888
Image courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. George Riddoch and Son Sales Ledger 1888 -1891 s...
Sam Harrison and Benmore colleagues on Kilmun Hill
Holy Loch, American Depot Ship in background. Benmore Students (class of 1962-64) Location...
Sam Harrison at Benmore College
Sam Harrison and colleagues in Younger Botanical Gardens, Benmore, Dunoon. The Sequoia Ave...
Sam Harrison at Benmore Forestry School 1962
Sam was a student at Benmore Forestry School, Cowal from 1962 - 1964. and ended his career...
Sam Harrison saw at Benmore
Younger Botanical Gardens - Glen Massan side. Student Sam Harrison felling mature Douglas...
Sandy Main preparing tree seed, Newton Nursery
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Sandy Main is mixing ‘red lead’ wit...
Sandy Rose's presentation, 2009
Presentation to Sandy Rose on his retirement after 50 years service. 2009. L to R: Joh...
Sandy Watson at blown tree Monaughty Forest
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Sandy Watson, Forester at Monaughty Fo...
Sandy Watson at wind snapped tree Monaughty Forest
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Sandy Watson, Forester at Monaughty Fo...
Sawmill site at Kirkney Bridge, Clashindarroch
Picture courtesy of family of Davy Anderson former Chief Forester. View from the Tillymina...
Sawmill tools from Charlie Smith
Wood working tools courtesy of Charlie Smith, Huntly. As a former and still working saw...
Sawmiller's timesheet - Riddoch of Rothiemay
Image courtesy of Charlie Smith, Huntly. Charlie Smith, a sawyer, worked for the timber...
Sawmiller's timesheet - Riddoch of Rothiemay
Image courtesy of Charlie Smith, Huntly. Sawmill time sheet for Charlie Smith, Sawmille...
Sawmilling team, Glenrinnes, Banffsire
As this was in Tommy Inch's photo collection, we might assume he was in it. However, he wo...
Scale Rule and Area Measuring Grids
Images courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Several survey plotting and map area measuri...
Scanning for reindeer
Mikel Utsi and Edwin Wakeling looking out for reindeer on the high tops of the Cairngorms ...
School group, Dalavich
Names to follow. Courtesy of Margaret Gauld nee Stewart. People are numbered in the ...
Scots pine plots at Findon – assessment in 1995
Photograph is not from Findon. Mike Phillips, a former research head forester at Newton,...
Seed Collection at Newton Nursery
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Newton Nursery. Jimmy Sutherland and unidentified perso...
Seed collection methods and systems
Mike Phillips, a former research head forester at Newton, published several papers during...
Seed collections of Native Pine in Scotland
Mike Phillips, a former research head forester at Newton, published several papers durin...
Selection of axes from Charlie Smith
Axes and shafts courtesy of Charlie Smith, Huntly. As a former and still working sawmil...
Selection of Cross cut saws from Charlie Smith
Saws and handles courtesy of Charlie Smith, Huntly. The attached PDF shows a close up of t...
Senior Staff from East Scotland Conservancy 1980
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. The staff obviously on an outing enjo...
Sheughing of bundled plants, Newton Nursery
Photographs about 1980 courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Here the bundled plants are ...
Shipping fencing material to the islands
Photograph courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. Motor vessel Shetland Trader leaving Buckie...
Sigle Furrow Ploughing - Glenbranter - Bowen 60
Two Bowen 60s pulling single furrow ploughs (S45/-/t) in Glenbranter according to writing ...
Signage - Mull Forest
The best of the signage on display at the Touchwood 2007 Festival at Dingwall Football Aca...
Silver fir felled at Gallow Hill - nr Kemnay
Photograph courtesy of James Mackay, Blairdaff who has added the following information. ...
Silver fir felled at Gallow Hill - nr Kemnay
Photograph courtesy of James Mackay, Blairdaff who has added the following information. ...
Silviculture (N) Research Group, Roslin, early 7Os
Dave Wilmott, Andy Mair, Roger Lines, John White, Alan Green, Ken Mills, Walter Patterson,...
Sime's Sawmill, Eskadale
The team at Frank Sime's sawmill Eskadale. Note that this has the look of a permanent yard...
Single Furrow Plough - Kilmichael - Fiat 655
Photograph details only say that this is a Fiat 655 pulling a single furrow plough (S45/-/...
Siviculture (North) Meeting in Wales 1990
Image is courtesy of Sheila Matheson, Lochinver. Silviculture (North) Branch Meeting in...
Slackening seed beds, Newton Nursery
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Slackening Sitka spruce seed beds in Ne...
Snedding with axe
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Photograph showing the man swinging an ...
Snow clearing at Fetteresso in winter 1994
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. The Roads team up in Fetteresso in the...
Snow clearing at Mytice, Clashindarroch Forest
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. Douglas Archibald driving the gra...
Some of Aultmore Forest squad
Photograph courtesy of Frank Calder, Enzie. Another excellent photograph from Frank showi...
Sowing seed in Newton Nursery circa 1981
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. Alan Duncan from Newton Nursery comment...
Sports day at Glentress Forester School 1948
Photographs and images courtesy of Joan Park who has submitted some of her father, Hamish ...
Sports day at Glentress Forester School 1948
Photographs and images courtesy of Joan Park who has submitted some of her father, Hamish ...
Sports day at Glentress Forester School 1948
Photographs and images courtesy of Joan Park who has submitted some of her father, Hamish ...
Sports day at Glentress Forester School 1948
Photographs and images courtesy of Joan Park who has submitted some of her father, Hamish ...
Sports day at Glentress Forester School 1948
Photographs and images courtesy of Joan Park who has submitted some of her father, Hamish ...
Sports day at Glentress Forester School 1948
Photographs and images courtesy of Joan Park who has submitted some of her father, Hamish ...
Sports day at Glentress Forester School 1948
Photographs and images courtesy of Joan Park who has submitted some of her father, Hamish ...
Sports day at Glentress Forester School 1948
Photographs and images courtesy of Joan Park who has submitted some of her father, Hamish ...
Staff and Students at Benmore Forestry School 1950
Photograph courtesy of Jean Maclean, Laide. The identity and names were kindly supplied...
Staff and Students at Benmore Forestry School 1950
Photograph courtesy of Jean Maclean, Laide. This photograph taken at the Benmore Forest...
Starlet reclining mural, partially uncovered.
Partially uncovered woman reclining mural, the clothing and pose would suggest a cinematic...
Stockholm Forestry Students Tour - East Scotland
File courtesy of Forestry Commission, Huntly. In 1966 Forestry Students from the Royal ...
Stone Crushing in Balloch Forest quarry
Photo courtesy of Ronnie Legge. Nick Webster from Spey Bay loads dug rock into the primary...
Stone in the Sluggan
This is the stone on the Sluggan Pass commemorating the inauguration of the Queens Forest ...
Storm damage to tree crop in Aberdeenshire - 1953
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. David was an Honours Student in 1952/...
Storm damage to tree crop in Aberdeenshire - 1953
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. David was an Honours Student in 1952/...
Storm damage to tree crop in Aberdeenshire - 1953
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. David was an Honours Student in 1952/...
Storm damage to tree crop in Aberdeenshire - 1953
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. David was an Honours Student in 1952/...
Storm damage to tree crop in Aberdeenshire - 1953
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. David was an Honours Student in 1952/...
Storm damage to tree crop in Aberdeenshire - 1953
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. David was an Honours Student in 1952/...
Storm damage to tree crop in Aberdeenshire - 1953
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. David was an Honours Student in 1952/...
Storm damage to tree crop in Aberdeenshire - 1953
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. David was an Honours Student in 1952/...
Storm damage to tree crop in Aberdeenshire - 1953
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. David was an Honours Student in 1952/...
Storno Viscount Radio Base Station
Photograph courtesy of Bill Irvine who snapped this shot in the barn at Kielder Forest whi...
Strome Ferry
Image courtesy of Don MacLeman shows the Ferry crossing between North and South Strome in ...
Strontian Radio mast and hut
Thanks to Bill Irvine of Radio and Communications branch for sending this photograph. T...
Struan Stewart at Laigh of Moray
Photographs courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Struan Stewart, Chief Forester at Lai...
Students at Benmore Forestry Training School 1964
1st and 2nd year students in 1964. Back row L-R: Brian Foggo, Pete Humphries, Johnny Thom...
Styer Cable Crane - First trials in Scotland
Circa 1972. This was the first time this crane was worked in Scotland - possibly in Glenga...
Styer Cable Crane - First trials in Scotland
Circa 1972. This was the first time this crane was worked in Scotland. Please update detai...
Sunart Forest - Alastair Ferguson -Forestry Keeper
Photograph by Arthur Bickerstaffe who used to holiday in the Sunart Area during the 1960s...
Sunart Forest - New Deer fencing in Achanellan
This team is erecting a new deer fence along the top edge of the Achanellan block above Po...
Sunart Forest - Ploughing in Achanellan
Ploughing the top edge of the Achanellan area just above Polloch with a mounted tine ploug...
Sutherland Floods - Slasher article 1978
Slasher Magazine article courtesy of Moira Mackay, Bonar bridge. The article recounts ...
Tag found at Blackstand coldstore
Tag found at Blackstand Coldstore, probably 1980s. Blackstand, now in the possession of...
Tame Capercaille
This one used to visit the green at Dalavich. The sound of the hedge clippers used to draw...
Taylor family operating Lockhart's mill
Photograph courtesy of Alison Mackie of Aberchirder whose grandfather was Peter Taylor who...
Taylor family operating Lockhart's mill
Photograph courtesy of Margaret Grant, Huntly whose grandfather was Peter Taylor who worke...
Taylor family operating Lockhart's mill
Photograph courtesy of Alison Mackie of Aberchirder whose grandfather was Peter Taylor who...
Taylor family operating Lockhart's mill
Photograph courtesy of Margaret Grant, Huntly whose grandfather was Peter Taylor who worke...
Taylor family operating Lockhart's mill at Wangie
Photograph courtesy of Margaret Grant, Huntly whose grandfather was Peter Taylor who worke...
Taylor family operating Lockhart's mills
Photograph courtesy of Alison Mackie of Aberchirder whose grandfather was Peter Taylor who...
Telegraph or Hydro pole production
Images courtesy of Alan Duncan, Nursery Manager, Newton Nursery. Photograph of Scots ...
The ancient forests of Darnaway
Mike Phillips, a former research head forester at Newton, published several papers during ...
The ancient forests of Gordon Castle Estate
Mike Phillips, a former research head forester at Newton, published several papers during ...
The Cairngorm Bridge washed away.
Apparently the locals had warned the engineers that they were taking the wrong line on the...
The last team from Forest of Deer
Photograph courtesy of Emslie Wilson, Greenness, Turriff. A line up of the last staff a...
The Late George McBeth hard at work
George McBeth beloved colleague, hard at work, c2000. Is that a rutter, or is the blade to...
Thermocouple in coldstore, Blackstand
Thermocouple for monitoring nursery coldstore environment, Blackstand. Blackstand, now ...
Thinning by WJ Riddoch
Images courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. Thinning article by WJ Riddoch which may have b...
Tillypronie Estate 1953 Gale
Image courtesy of Bob McLaren, Logie Coldstone Tillypronie House driveway after the sto...
Tillypronie Estate after 1953 Gale
Image courtesy of Bob McLaren, Logie Coldstone. The drive way to Tillypronie House has ...
Tillypronie Estate after 1953 Gale
Image courtesy of Bob McLaren, Logie Coldstone. Tillypronie Estate staff are working th...
Tillypronie Estate Staff circa 1958
Image courtesy of Bob McLaren, Logie Coldstone It is thought this photograph of Tillypr...
Timber Corps Badge for Margaret Angus
Margaret Augus receives her 2008 badge and citation signed by the Prime Minister in recogn...
Timber Corps Ladies at Fordyce Lodge
This photograph is courtesy of John Baillie, Garmouth and shows Timber Corps ladies Gertie...
Timber Corps lunch box
This photograph is courtesy of John (Jock) Baillie, Garmouth who owns this Timber Corps lu...
Timber Corps Women at Buckie area
This photograph is courtesy of John Baillie, Garmouth who believes the photograph may have...
Timber Corps Women at Lochloy Forest
This photograph is courtesy of John Baillie, Garmouth who worked with these Timber Corps m...
Timber Corps Women on D2 Tractor
John Baillie, originally from Grange, Keith, started working in the Forestry (Home Grown T...
Timber Order from AG & WJ Riddoch, Rothiemay
Image courtesy of Charlie Smith, Huntly. Order for Pitwood products from AG and WJ Ridd...
Timber Order from R B Farquhar, Rhynie
Image courtesy of Charlie Smith, Huntly. Order for Pitwood products from RB Farquhar to...
Timber to Scandanavia via Buckie
Photograph courtesy of Roy Neish. About 1992 Buchan Forest district was involved in sendi...
Timber Workers near Garlogie Aberdeenshire
Picture courtesy of John Coutts husband of the late Gladys Coutts (nee Donald)WTC. Thes...
Timberjack Skidder
DF Plodda Disovery Masts...
Tine plough head
Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory. A single furrow Tine head on a plough b...
Tom and Elsie Bremner
Images courtesy of Ian Bremner, Keith. Tom and Elsie Bremner photographed at their son ...
Tom and Elsie Bremner at No3 FWH, Bin Forest
Images courtesy of Ian Bremner, Keith. Tom and Elsie Bremner in the stack yard of No 3 ...
Tom Ritchie with the County 4X4
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. Tom Ritchie driving County 4X4 pu...
Tomintoul in winter 1963 - Glenlivet Forest Squad
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour taken by her husband Jack Christie when he w...
Tommy Inch after his retirement
Tommy Inch birdwatching at Rogie Falls with his wife Gladys. Born in 1907, in Culburni...
Tommy Inch on a sawn wood stack
This shot may be of Tommy Inch around 1950 Born in 1907, in Culburnie, near Kiltarlity,...
Tommy Inch with a working horse
Tommy Inch, with the hat on, with "Dot" McLeod, the horse handler and a working Clydesdale...
Tommy Inch with workmates, Kiltarlity
Tommy, on the right, seizes a photobreak with is workmates. Jock "the fiery", who worked t...
Touchwood History Stall at Touchwood Festival
at Dingwall Football Academy, 1st and 2nd of June. Showing the old metal forestry signs an...
Track Marshall team at Rannoch Moor Forest
Photograph courtesy of Douglas Archibald of Banchory. Two Track Marshall 70 wide track tr...
Traction engine and workers
Traction engine hauling wood with local forest workers, c1920. The man on the far left is...
Tractor and Plough draining team - Callop
A new humpy draining plough pulled by two Track Marshall tractors the front one driven by ...
Transporting deer fencing posts - Glencripesdale
Picture courtesy of Jimmy Cameron (Caol, FortWilliam formerly Arivegaig, Acharacle)taken a...
Tree Planting Machine trial - Aultmore Forest
Photograph courtesy of Frank Calder, Enzie. One of the early tree planting machines on tr...
Tree Planting Machine trial - Aultmore Forest
Photograph courtesy of Frank Calder, Enzie. One of the early tree planting machines on tr...
Tree Planting Machine trial - Aultmore Forest
Photograph courtesy of Frank Calder, Enzie. One of the early tree planting machines on tr...
Trees on Corpach clearance peatbog
When the Corpach Pulpmill was being built, a large amount of soft surface peat was skimmed...
Tulliallan Nursery - visit by Benmore Students
Photograph courtesy of Pat McAuley. The attitude of the students graphically demonstrates...
Tullieallan Nursery - Gunn Lifter
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh. Photograph at Tullieallan Nursery sho...
Two Fiat 70 c tractors at New Luce
The front one was being driven by Allan Little, who sent this in, and the back one, by Dre...
Two Forestry Ploughing Operators and Cat D7
Picture courtesy of Ronnie Legge, Huntly. Taken circa 1974 Bert Legge left and Dod Irvi...
Two Men in Furrows
Demonstrating the depth of furrows required to ensure good drainage prior to planting....
Uig Nursery - Benmore nr Dunoon Argyll
Photograph courtesy of Pat McAuley. A view up the transplant beds where the lines of seed...
Uig Nursery - Benmore nr Dunoon Argyll
Photograph courtesy of Pat McAuley. Benmore Forester Training School students John Povall...
Uig Nursery - Benmore nr Dunoon Argyll
Photograph courtesy of Pat McAuley. Norman Davidson and John Povall from the Benmore For...
Uig Nursery - Benmore nr Dunoon Argyll
Photograph courtesy of Pat McAuley. This shows the small tree nursery on a rainy day when ...
Uig Nursery - Benmore nr Dunoon Argyll
Photograph courtesy of Pat McAuley who with the help of Jim Pratt developed and printed al...
Unknown Mounted tine Plough
No details of forest, year, type of machine or driver available. Possibly a Fiat 100? but ...
Unknown ploughing tractor
Could be a Caterpillar D4 which is pulling a double furrow plough (D60/-/t). Very wide spa...
Unknown Ploughing tractor - mortars and shells
This tractor is a bit like a D4 but perhaps some one can confirm the actual type and model...
Unusual trees of Moray
Mike Phillips, a former research head forester at Newton, published several papers during ...
Using one of the first power saws
Tommy Stewart, brother of Margaret Gauld, nee Stewart, using one of the first power saws, ...
Valmet working in Fetteresso Forest
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Valmet 820 Forwarder at work in Fett...
VIDEO - Alan McDonald at Auchterawe
Alan McDonald, lifelong forester, describes the changes he has seen around Auchterawe, nea...
VIDEO - Bracken cutting above Dalavich, c1970
Short video of the women of Dalavich cutting bracken and resting....
VIDEO - Buddy Gillies at Knapdale
Born and brought up in Knapdale Forest, beside the Crinan Canal, Argyll, Scotland, lifelon...
VIDEO - Forestry operations in Dalavich, c1966
Short video of forestry operations in Dalavich, Argyll, featuring helicopter, log-hauling ...
VIDEO - Forestry Process c 1970 Part 1
Thanks to Bill Mason, Argyll for this video of forestry processes, captured around 1970. T...
VIDEO - Recently retired forester Peter Quelch
talks about and demonstrated his enthusiasm for forestry machinery. This is an extended...
VIDEO - Retired Forester George Ivison remembers
wind damage and cleaing up after the Great Gale. This is an expanded extract of a CDROM...
VIDEO - The use of the rutting spade
Mr.Dugald Kennedy, Fort Augustus, explains the use of the rutting spade in forestry practi...
VIDEO - working horses, Dalavich, 1966
Video of working horses on their day off in Dalavich, sometime round 1966....
Violet and Carl Kaiser
Violet and Karl Kaiser pictured in Scotland somethime prior to September 1945. Violet, nee...
Walter Paterson and colleague at Drummond Hill
Image is courtesy of Sheila Matheson, Lochinver. When he finished Forester Training Sch...
Wedding of Karl Kaiser and Violet McDougall
The military wedding in the Forestry Camp, Kiltarlity of Karl Kaiser of 19 Corps, Canadian...
Weevil felling after windblow (Glentress FTS area)
Photograph is part of Bill Stoddart’s collection of images taken when he was a lecturer ...
Wellington Bomber
...
Wellington Bomber
Wellington Bomber in Loch Ness....
Wellington Bomber crash site, 1942, Affric NNR
This is the only photo we have of the Wellington crash site at approx GR078195. This is...
Wet weather shelter Barracks, Rannoch circa 1965
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. Working on the wet weather shelter out...
Whale on Culbin Forest beach
Photograph courtesy of Bill Taylor. Bill Taylor and the elderly family dog Goldie examini...
Wheeled Planimeter Map area measurement tool
Images courtesy of Heather McPherson of Moray and Aberdeenshire Forest District A more ...
Wheeled Planimeter Map area measurement tool
Images courtesy of Heather McPherson of Moray and Aberdeenshire Forest District. Planim...
Whitelees Forest - A step too far!
A slide found in Aberdeenshire District Office along with a few others on ploughing and dr...
Whitelees Forest - draining with a side bucket
One of a set of slides found in Aberdeenshire District office showing draining activity in...
Whitelees Forest - draining with ploughs
Photoslide found in Aberdeenshire District Office with annotation 'Cross draining, very so...
Whitelees Forest - draining with ploughs
Slide found in drawer in Aberdeenshire District Office with three others that refer to Whi...
Whitelees Forest - draining with ploughs
Second of a small set of slides found in Aberdeenshire Disrtict Office showing draining in...
Whitelees Forest - planting trees on ploughing
One of a set of slides found in Aberdeenshire District Office showing operations in Whitel...
Whole tree extraction Inchnacape forest
Photograph courtesy of Will Anderson, Seafield & Strathspey Estates. Will comments ‘...
William Smith former Felling Contractor
Photograph courtesy of Jean Cranna, Drumblade, Huntly. The photograph is of her paterna...
Wind Tatter flags - Glenlivet Forest
Photograph courtesy of Jean Christie, Pitfour taken by her husband Jack Christie when he w...
Windblow at Inverliever Forest
Set along the shores of Loch Awe and Loch Avich, Argyll, the aftermath of the 1968 gale. ...
Windblow at Inverliever Forest (2)
Windblow, Arichamish block, Inverliever....
Windblow at Inverliever Forest (3)
Windblow on leeward side of Ford block, Inverliever....
Windblow at Inverliever Forest (4)
Windblow, Ford block, Inverliever....
Wire Bridge
Athnamulloch, Affric...
Wire Crane Loader
Plodda DF Discovery masts...
Wire Crane Loading Lorry
Plodda DF Discovery masts...
Witches' Brooms in Scots pine and birch
Mike Phillips, a former research head forester at Newton, published a paper on Witchesâ€...
Wm Clark and Son (Parkgate) Forestry Catalogue
Former sales catalogue circa 1980 for Forestry Ploughs courtesy of Douglas Clark the third...
Woman Timber Cutters
St Andrews...
Woman's face, mural, Blackstand
Smaller sketch of woman's face, Blackstand mural. Thanks to the McKeggie family for their ...
Women's Timber Corps at Garlogie or Corsindae
Picture courtesy of John Coutts husband of late Gladys Coutts (nee Donald) Three Timber J...
Women's Timber Corps Badges and Insignia
Badges courtesy of Margaret Angus (nee Stewart) who was based at Glenkindie House. The bad...
Women's Timber Corps based at Glenkindie House
Photograph courtesy of Margaret Angus(nee Stewart), Huntly. Glenkindie House in Strathdon...
Women's Timber Corps based at Glenkindie House
Photograph courtesy of Margaret Angus (nee Stewart) formerly Pitlochry A group of the T...
Women's Timber Corps from Edinburgh
Photographs courtesy of John Coutts husband of late Gladys Coutts (nee Donald). Gladys as ...
Women's Timber Corps in Glenkindie
Photograph courtesy of Margaret Angus (nee Stewart) formerly Pitlochry. Margaret (extreme...
Womens Timber Corps ladies in Glasgow
Picture courtesy of John Coutts husband of late Jean Coutts WTC. Photograph taken in Gl...
Womens Timber Corps plant for National Tree Week
Four ladies from the war time Women's Timber Corp help Gordon Thom plant some trees to cel...
Women's Timber Corps staff in Moray circa 1942
Photograph courtesy of Mrs Beatrice Sutherland(nee Cumming), Huntly. Most of names are ...
Wooden trestle bridge built by George Riddoch
Photograph courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. Note on the back of the bridge photogra...
Wooden trestle bridge built by George Riddoch 1895
Photograph courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly. Wooden trestle bridge built by George Riddo...
Work squad at Barracks, Rannoch Forest circa 1965
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory. The boys on a break from their work li...
Workers registration log
Knapdale. Anyone remember any names?...
Workers registration log page 2
Anyone put any faces to these names?...
Working horse and cart, Kiltarlity
Lunchtime for the working horse. Man in background having a seat too. Photo by Tommy Inch....
Workplace Accident Log Book
For Frank Sime's Sawmill, though by this time, managed by Tommy Inch, known locally as "To...
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