Achnamara Village circa 1950

Date Added: 14 January 2014 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1950 Picture No: 2128

Image courtesy of Terry Wright. This haunting image shows the forestry house building scheme in progress on the Loch front as the outlines begin to take shape. The chimneys and a dividing wall between adjoining houses have been built in brick or block and in the back ground the frames of two houses are fairly complete with men working on the roof.
Terry goes on to say ‘I bought a scanned copy of this photo from the village shop/ Post Office between 1998-2001 but all of the copies had the two white stripes on them, I can only think that it was a rejected negative which was found by some local or possibly the scanner wasn't up to much, otherwise I don't have a clue about it, not even who scanned it. There were definitely no images on the back’.
Can anyone say which house numbers are shown or provide a modern photograph from the same position? If you have please email image to nandh.davidson@btopenworld.com

Any information on who built the Forestry Commission timber houses in Scotland, where they came from and when they were built would also be very welcome.

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2 Comments

Not to sure but me thinks the houses were built by Halls of Aberdeen, only going from memory of what I was told so it may have been someone else, they are of a Swedish design. The village construction was finished in 1952. The two nearly complete blocks are 1&2 and 5&6. The larger shed is in No.10s garden, the sheds probably belonged to the folk constructing the village. The chimney stack and out building plinth, wash house and coal shed at the near end of the photograph will be No.14, now the road goes round the back of the village at that point. I will try and get you a photograph tomorrow of a similar angle. Comment left on 18 January 2014 at 20:43 by Neil Soudan

I remember village when built. At the time school was at top of hill past Ashfield farm. I was born in Ashfield bungalow and went to school there and then school in village when it was built. My father worked in the forestry and also two of my sisters. Comment left on 03 February 2014 at 12:42 by Lily Currie Nee Macdonald

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