Inchnacardoch Forest Employees
Early photograph taken in 1926 from a forestry album of 117 photographs compiled by an unknown Forestry Commission officer.
The photograph caption reads: ‘The five employees on the Estate when acquired by the Forestry Commission in 1919’.
Unfortunately the five employees are not named or any indication given of their work roles but from the dress some are likely to be keepers or trappers.
Can anyone provide any information on their names?
Note the corrugated iron clad hut behind the workers. In a 1930s report it states that there were 4 army huts used as bothies for workers. Can anyone say if these were actually built by the Forestry Commission or by the Ministry of Labour shortly after the First World war?
Below is a quote from the Journal of the Forestry Commission written by District Officer J W Mackay referencing the bothy at Inchnacardoch Forest.
Glenmhor Society of Foresters (Journal Of the Forestry Comission No 8 April 1929)
A movement which originated with the forestry staff at Inchnacardoch,Inverness-shire, has resulted in the formation of the Glenmhor Foresters’Society, Glenmhor being the “ Great Glen,” of which Fort Augustus
forms the centre. The Society does not intend to devote itself exclusively to forestry subjects, but has a wider outlook, more in the nature of a mutual improvement or literary society, and, while forestry subjects will naturally hold an important place in the syllabus, subjects of more general interest will also be discussed.
The syllabus of the first session includes lectures by the Assistant Commissioner for Scotland, the Divisional Officer (Mr. Scott) and Dr.Anderson, and the magic lantern, and possibly the cinema, will be used on occasion. Membership is open to all men and boys engaged in forestry in the district, whether on the Commission’s forests or on private estates, and persons not employed in forestry are also eligible for election and are represented on the Committee.
The meetings so far have been held in the dining room of the men’s bothy at Inchnacardoch, and have been confined to the male sex, but some of the meetings will take the form of public meetings or functions,
and will be held in a public hall and be open to the general public,including ladies. During the summer it is hoped to have excursions to forests or estates in the neighbourhood.
J. W. M a c k a y
Groups: Forestry Areas, Groups of people