Jessie Gordon at Findon Nursery
Photograph courtesy of Sandy Gordon, Forres area, whose father James Gordon was a long service forester in the Forestry Commission.
Jessie, whose husband was James Gordon and forester at Findon Forest in the Black Isle before and during WWII, worked in the forestry nursery thought to be Findon Nursery. At this period, in war time conditions, labour to work in the forest and the nursery would have been very scarce and employing women and older children may have been the only way to grow the young trees for and to achieve any planting programmes.
Here Jessie is holding bridle of a Forestry Commission horse while three young working lads are either trying to evade being in or perhaps get into the photograph.
Can anyone name the young men?
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Groups: Forest Nurseries, Groups of people, Horses at work in Forests