Forest Nursery - Possibly Loch Broom area
Photograph courtesy of Bob Cumming who goes on to write:
'My father, John Cumming, who was born in 1909 in rural Perthshire and attended high school in Fort William, went through the Benmore Forestry School in the early 1930s (I am not sure of the exact dates). He then worked in the north west of Scotland, in the Loch Broom area. Sometime later (mid to late 1930s) he joined the Forestry Commission. He worked as a manger in Chopwell (just outside of Newcastle on Tyne) from the early 1940s until 1950 (The area is now the Chopwell Woodland Park). From 1950 until he retired 1972 he was a forester in North Yorkshire (based initially in Coxwold and later in Masham). He died in 1985.
I have the 4 pictures (attached) from my father's time in forestry in Scotland. Two of them are of his time at the Benmore Forest School. The other two are taken, to the best of my knowledge, in the Loch Broom area sometime in the mid 1930s.
In this image John Cumming is kneeling on the left'.
This picture from circa 1936 shows a section of a forest nursey with the men standing around what looks like lined out transplant beds. The beds must have been lined out with short boards across the bed.
The transplants however look very small and very close together but the detail is hard to see. Can anyone confirm the above and also indicate what the two men kneeling down are doing with the two wooden troughs?
Was there a forest nursery in the Loch Broom area and can anyone name people who worked there?
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