Benmore Forestry School students - Uig Nursery
Taking a break from a working session in Uig Nursery, Benmore, Dunoon are the 1963-65 session students. At the time the Head Forester was John Jackson and Assistant Forester ? Jolly.
Sitting in back of little Bedford lorry, the school transport, is L-R: Alex Herd, John Povall, Jim Pratt.
Standing are: Pat MacAulay, Norman Davidson.
Seated are: Gilly Dunbar, Len MacRae, Brendan Jones, Ken Ellis, Dave Corner
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6 Comments
Today I have just heard that John Jackson is still living in his own house in the Dunoon area at the very respectable age of 102 years!! Amazingly he will have witnessed two commercial crops of trees come and go on his old forest.
Comment left on 05 June 2007 at 21:17 by Norman Davidson
re;- benmore Forestry School students -Uig Nursery ? Jolly is probably J. M. Jolly esrtwhile Head Forester of Kirkhill Forest, Aberdeenshire.
Comment left on 03 April 2008 at 16:34 by Alexander Robertson
The Jolly you mention could possibly be Dave Solway.He worked in the area, and played cricket for the school at Benmore.
Comment left on 13 April 2008 at 12:26 by Pat Mc Auley
Thanks Alexander and Pat you have just helped dig a bit further into my slipping memory cells. Dave Solway name is now more familiar at Benmore. I did come across a J(Jim?) Jolly when I worked at Atholl Estates Calvine section just prior to going to Benmore - he was a Commission forester and looked after the planting areas at Trinafour, probably outliers of Rannoch Forest.
As a follow up to the John Jackson comment I have just seen a note in the Slasher (FCA section) that John died at the end of January 2008 - 5 days short of his 102nd birthday. Comment left on 20 April 2008 at 09:55 by Norman Davidson
As a follow up to the John Jackson comment I have just seen a note in the Slasher (FCA section) that John died at the end of January 2008 - 5 days short of his 102nd birthday. Comment left on 20 April 2008 at 09:55 by Norman Davidson
Don't know about Dave Solway at Benmore but I know for a fact he was a Forester at Glenfinart Ardentinny for a number of years.
Comment left on 23 June 2008 at 20:56 by John McIntyre
A Jim Jolly was a forester on Glen Errochty when Faskally students were planting there, I think in spring 1964. He was eventually in charge of Kirkhill Forest near Aberdeen
Comment left on 07 February 2011 at 17:05 by Abbie Gordon
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