Loading timber at Logie Coldstone � Gale1953

Date Added: 11 June 2014 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1953 Picture No: 2536

This Aberdeen Journals Photograph is courtesy of Aberdeen Journals and Forestry Commission, Moray and Aberdeenshire Forest District who hold the image.

Action photograph of men working and checking timber at roadside which has been harvested from wind damaged forest around Logie Colstone. The driver on R M McAinsh, Timber Merchants, Crieff lorry has just finished chaining down a load of exceptionally straight slow taper pine poles no doubt all hand loaded. Note tree emblem on the lorry the below the windscreen!

The man in the foreground is checking the lengths of some larger logs on the ground as possibly the merchant looks on. A great photograph.

Can anyone name the men or add some information on the McAinsh business?

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Groups: Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action, Gale 1953, Northeast Scotland

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My mother Margaret Esson from Mosstown, Blelack, Logie Coldstone went to Crieff to work for the McAinsh family during WW2 where she met my father on army training prior to D Day.
My uncle, Alexander, Sandy Esson drove lorries for McAinsh carrying timber to Crieff and other places including Glasgow. Sandy worked at Balmoral and narrowly avoided a crash with a car driven by King George on the Balmoral drive. I am not sure who was driving the fastest! Comment left on 13 November 2021 at 20:49 by Rob Everett

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