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.
This is a very clear image of some of the people working in the nursery at that time. Unfortunately only some of them can be named and from the left in the back row are as follows:
Robert Brown, Jessie Gordon, Dan the Fiddler (not sure?), Boy?, Boy?, Jock Cameron.
In front are Don Dingwall and Alec Stewart.
The PDF shows the adults in another pose but image is very blurred
Can anyone name the two boys in the back row and confirm the name of the man in the middle at the back?
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Groups: Forest Nurseries, Groups of people