Workers in Findon Nursery
Photograph courtesy of Sandy Gordon, Black Isle, whose father James Gordon was a long service forester in the Forestry Commission.
James Gordon was forester at Findon Forest in the Black Isle before and during WWII, and took several photographs of the workers in what is believed 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 Robert Brown on the left has Jessie Gordon (Wife of James) sitting in his barrow and Jock Cameron on the right has Margaret Macdonald in his one. Looking behind the workers, piles of debris can be seen lying on the central roadway suggesting that the staff have been hand weeding the transplant lines and dumping the weeds there for collecting and disposing of at a later time. At least the weather must have been warm.
Any details of Findon Nursery/Forest and on those who worked there would be very welcome.
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Groups: Forest Nurseries, Groups of people