Silver fir felled at Gallow Hill

Silver fir felled at Gallow Hill - nr Kemnay

Date Added: 24 November 2009 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1946 Picture No: 540

Photograph courtesy of James Mackay, Blairdaff who has added the following information.

Silver Spruce 7ft. diam., Gallow Hill, Dec. 28 1946. Bill Burr, Millbank is 2nd from left.

Any further information and names of people would be very welcome. The fellers are using Scandanavian style raker toothed cross cut saw and something like 6lb wedge axes.

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Information from a P&J newspaper cutting was handed to me by Charlie Smith (Ordbrae, Huntly)which showed the above photograph which had been submitted to the paper by L Sim (Louis Sim?)of Kemnay.

The caption read 'Felling the hangman's tree at Enzean, Monymusk, in 1947. Pictured from the left are Bill Barr and his sons Bill jun and Sandy, and Harry Summerville. Photograph submitted by L Sim of Kemnay who was present when the picture was taken' (Almost certainly the Barr surname should be Burr). Comment left on 03 June 2010 at 22:03 by Norman Davidson

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