Millbuie Forestry Houses Circa 1970
This picture is courtesy of Newton research station and was headed Millbuie Forestry Houses.
Can any one provide more information on them and who lived there?
Groups: Buildings in Forests, Forestry Areas
8 Comments
These are a group of 12 ex Forestry Commission houses at Mount High on east side of B9160 4 or 5 miles from Rosemarkie on the Black Isle.The houses were for FC workers at Blackstand Nursery and Millbuie Forest (later Black Isle Forest )
Comment left on 04 February 2012 at 12:04 by Frank Thom
Some of the Road Squad also lived at Mount High back in the mid 60's. One for sure was Billy (The Drotter) Mackintosh.
Comment left on 14 March 2012 at 19:04 by Don MacLeman
Neil MacKinnon Willie Pringle, Ernie Findlay, Tommy Taylor, Jim Ellison, Alec Mackenzie, George finlayson, Alec Doull, John Duncan Eddie.....
Comment left on 04 January 2017 at 20:37 by Norman ross
John Keenleyside, Forres, has made contact to say that he took that actual photograph and that the houses were built in the very early 1950s.
Comment left on 09 February 2017 at 13:02 by Norman Davidson
Some of the residents were originally from St Kilda not known for its forests. The other hub of forestry on the Black Isle was Munlochy where over seventy men and women were employed by the FC in nursery and planting work, It also had some forestry houses in the village.
Comment left on 10 February 2017 at 20:03 by Alasdair Cameron
Comment left on 10 February 2017 at 20:03 by Alasdair Cameron
The address given for two of the forestry workers in 1941 (on their death certificates, sadly) was "Forestry Houses, Mount High" so they couldn't have been built in the 1950s, unless there were earlier houses and there was later rebuilding? Are there records of the construction in Commission archives, I wonder?
Comment left on 05 November 2017 at 13:40 by Jim Mackay
Ref the forestry workers who died in 1941 address given as forestry houses Mount High. The original houses built for St Kilda people were built in 1930s.
These are two semi detached cottages (which were crofts with stables) and were once numbers 1 and 2 Mount High. The numbers have since been changed to 14 and 15. They are situated about 200 yards up from the newer houses along a forest track, I live in number 15. Comment left on 09 February 2020 at 10:29 by anne cooper
These are two semi detached cottages (which were crofts with stables) and were once numbers 1 and 2 Mount High. The numbers have since been changed to 14 and 15. They are situated about 200 yards up from the newer houses along a forest track, I live in number 15. Comment left on 09 February 2020 at 10:29 by anne cooper
Ah, that gives the full story, thanks for that, Anne! It all makes sense now. I'll amend the story on our Kirkmichael website accordingly.
Comment left on 09 February 2020 at 19:05 by Jim Mackay
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