Duncan Jamieson and Jock Brodie circa 1958
Photographs courtesy of John Brodie, Mold, N Wales who has sent in photographs of his father ‘Jock’ Brodie who for a time was a plough operator with the Forestry Commission in the northeast of Scotland.
John goes on to say ‘My father worked with the Forestry Commission during the 1950's, firstly at Swanley, Fetteresso near Stonehaven, where, as far as I can remember he was a lorry driver, this would have been 1951/52. We then moved to Finzean when he started work as a plant operator at Blackhall near Banchory. Again, as far as I can remember he worked in places like, Rannoch Moor, Pitlochry, The Culbin Sands and the Rhynie and Tomintoul areas’.
This photograph shows two ploughing tractor operators, Duncan Jamieson and Jock Brodie in their working gear outside their accommodation at Auchenblae (near Stonhaven). They were staying with Alex Taylor while they were working in the Drumtochty and south Fetteresso Forest areas around about 1958/59.
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