Forestry Memories

New School – Achnamara Village

New School – Achnamara Village

Date Added: 12 November 2019 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1964 Picture No: 4557

The photograph courtesy of Fiona Green, North Connel, and shows the new Achnamara village school in the back ground.

Fiona comments: “There was only one classroom and another room which doubled as a dining room/gym room and any other purpose it was required for. As you look at the building the classroom is on the right end of the building and the dining room on the left. The kitchen was also at the left end.

The Swedish houses in the picture are 21/22 next to the shop out of the photograph view. Numbers 21 & 22 actually burned down in the early 1970's with the fire starting in number 21. A single house was built on this site perhaps fifteen years later. My mother was still living in the village at the time of the fire but Billy and I had left by then.”

Groups: Buildings in Forests, Forestry Areas

2 Comments

I lived in number 21 in 1957. Sad to hear it burned to the ground in the early '70s. Comment left on 13 May 2020 at 02:45 by Tommy Allen
I moved into no21 Achnamara in 1979. Still lived there when it burnt down in September 1983. Forestry rehoused us in no17. Comment left on 11 March 2022 at 17:19 by Margaret MacInnes
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