Christmas Trees at Kirkhill Forest 1971
The photograph is courtesy of the family of George Dey. George took many photographs in his forestry career and some are now shown on this web site. Check under ‘Groups’ and George Dey Collection.
This is a series of images of the Christmas tree sales area at Kirkhill being set up to cater for Aberdeen city customers. The obvious advances are packaging of trees in polythene tubing, offering trees dipped in alginate to delay needle drop (note use of bath), cones etc sprayed with forestry silver aerosol paint being offered for sale and the various A35 sale receipt books each with a price per tree or product category.
Note the tree prices in 1971:
7-8ft trees – 70 pence (untreated)
6-7ft trees – 60 pence (untreated)
5-6ft trees – 40 pence (untreated)
4-5ft trees – 35 pence (treated)
Can anyone name the staff in the photographs and in the attached PDF?
Groups: Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action, George Dey Forestry Collection, Northeast Scotland , Tools, equipment and clothing