Forestry Memories

Landscape and Conservation site visits

Landscape and Conservation site visits

Date Added: 26 May 2016 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1984 Picture No: 3346

Photograph courtesy of David Foot, Surrey.

A good image of Forestry Commission personnel out on site visits in Galloway with conservation expert Morton Boyd and Duncan Campbell as the Head Office Landscape architect.

The people have been named from the left:

Ernie Michie (Galloway Forest District Manager)
Morton Boyd (Ex NCC then employed as conservation advisor to the FC)
Richard Britton FC (see comments below)
John Y Ogilvie (Assistant to Assistant Conservator Dumfries)
Bill Norrie (District Forester Galloway Forest District)
Duncan Campbell (Lead Landscape Architect for Forestry Commission)

Can anyone name the third person along?

This photograph was taken about the time of the major organisational change in the Forestry Commission from forests units as part of a district to amalgamated units called District Forests with larger centralised offices. In this case the two former Districts headed by District Officers Bill Norrie and Colin Bancroft plus all the individual Forest Units were amalgamated into Castle Douglas Forest District headed by Ernie Michie.
Bill Norrie (ex Aberdeen Univ in his early days an assistant to Bob Cathie when DO at Fochabers) was for a short while assistant to Ernie Michie Forest District manager at Castle Douglas .

The PDF shows another view of some of the group at another site with Duncan Campbell on left, possibly David Henderson Howatt?, John Ogilvie and Morton Boyd

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Groups: Forestry in Action, Groups of people

2 Comments

I believe the unnamed participant is Richard Britton who is now Head of Forest Services Delivery in England. Richard would have been a recent graduate working within Castle Douglas FD. The District was my first forester posting and I worked under the leadership of Ernie Michie and his assistant Bill Norrie Comment left on 04 November 2019 at 07:23 by Bruce Rothnie
I agree the unknown is Richard Britton but I think he had a role as biodiversity officer or similar in Silvan House and would have been with Morton Boyd. Comment left on 06 June 2023 at 12:26 by Wilma Harper
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