Drumtochty Forest Sign
The photograph is courtesy of the family of George Dey. George took many forestry photographs in his forestry career and some are now shown on this web site.
This is how the Forestry Commission signposted its forests circa 1956. Note the formal reference to State Forest. The signs were all cast metal and quite heavy requiring a substantial post to hold them up.
Does anyone have photographs of or actual original signs as old or older than this one?
Groups: Forest Signs, Forestry Areas, George Dey Forestry Collection
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Although I am a fairly frequent visitor to this website I have only just found this image of one of the old, cast, forest signs.
Since I joined the FC from school, as an Unskilled Forest Worker, in 1981 I have gathered together a collection of old tools, equipment, maps and signs. I have several of the type of cast signs shown in the photograph but having spent all of my career in England, apart from a brief spell in South Wales and a couple of years at Newton Rigg, all of my signs are from forests in Yorkshire and the Midlands, where I am still based now.
If pictures of these would be of interest I would be pleased to gather them together and send pictures to you but I understand if you want to retain the Scottishness of the website.
Yorkshire Forest District has a collection of these signs lining the corridor in the Pickering Office.
I also have an unused, enamel, FC "Take Care Do Not Start Fire" sign which I discovered, still in its waxed paper wrapping, whilst tidying out an old tool store one very wet day at Dalby Forest in early 1983.
Well done for creating and maintaining such an excellent and interesting resource. I wish we had something similar in England!
Best wishes
Andy Powers
Head of Land Management
Forestry England
Central England Forest District Comment left on 10 April 2023 at 14:20 by Andy Powers