Forestry Commission house Tornashean Forest

Date Added: 05 October 2020 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1960 Picture No: 4873

The photograph is courtesy of Alistair Cassie received from a cousin in Australia.
Information is very limited but Eddie Cassie (son of Adam Cassie forester at Countesswells Forest, Aberdeen) appears to have worked for the Forestry Commission for a time in Strathdon at Tornashean Forest and lived in this British Timber House type building which has been clad with shingles. The year is unknown but guessed as around 1960.

The house appears as if it could be on a Forest Worker Holding close to the River Don. Note the winter image of the same house in deep snow in the attached PDF below. It is assumed the house consists of a simple timber frame clad with shingles, with no insulation and plaster board lined inside. Not that cosy really in winter!

Eddie (real name Adam) apparently moved later to Castle Fraser when Mr Smilie was laird and then moved again to Westhill and worked in the landscape services of Aberdeen Council.

Any information would be very welcome.

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Groups: Buildings in Forests, Forestry Areas, Northeast Scotland

2 Comments

The Anderson bomb shelter in the garden is unusual in the countryside. It is probably recycled.
What could the tall pole be for? Comment left on 07 October 2020 at 17:41 by Alasdair Cameron

Anderson shelters made excellent vermin proof poultry sheds and have seem them built on a low wall and toilet facilites added. Recycling was ever the result of innovation. Long pole was probably for stringing a wire aerial for better wireless reception in the enclosed valley of Strathdon. Perhaps there are other ideas? Comment left on 07 October 2020 at 19:37 by Norman Davidson

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