Forestry Memories

Newton Nursery work squad circa 1948

Newton Nursery work squad circa 1948

Date Added: 09 January 2012 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1948 Picture No: 1068


Mike Phillips, Newton, has passed on a cutting of an picture from possibly a local paper which features the women who worked in Newton nursery after the Second World War. The picture had been submitted by Mrs Hetty Milne (nee Coutts) from Elgin who is sitting front left. She has named some of the women as follows starting from the back :
1. Dolly McKenzie
2. Jessie Main
3. Madeline Main
4. Jessie ?
5. Nellie Smith
6. Vera Anderson
7. Helen Joss
8. Dotty More
9. ?
10. Margaret Jeans
11. Sootie McLean
12. Hetty Coutts
13. Evelyn McKnockiter
14. Jean Robertson

Any help to provide the missing names would be very welcome and any more photographs and stories from this era would also be very much appreciated.

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