FCA Magazine (FCAtoday) - Issue 66: Spring 2019
FC staff Retirement Association magazine. The content summary below was very kindly compiled by Diane Birkett, Bedfordshire. See PDF attachment below the text to view the full document. A total of 77 issues were completed between 1997 and the final issue in 2023.
Issue 66: Spring 2019
Articles
Dean FTS Reunion Dinner
The Dean FTS students' reunion dinner will be on Saturday 21st September, 2019 in the Verderer’s Court at the Speech House.
FCA AGM 2019
The 2019 AGM and forest visit will be hosted by the Breckland Group and will take place on the 21st and 22nd May.
Before and After
In January, Don Amer received an e-mail from a stranger asking if he and his wife could visit Don. He discovered the sender was the son of a wartime friend when they were children. As Don’s friend had died many years ago, the son wanted him to fill in some gaps in his childhood. After the meeting, they are planning another.
Top Brass at Silvan House
Photographs sent in by David Foot and Norman Davidson of the Forestry Memories website show: -
In the Chairman's Office at Corstorphine Road: Neil McKerrow, David Foot, Tim Rollinson, David Grundy, Robin Cutler, Robin Grove-White, Michael Strang Steel, Harry Fetherstonehaugh, Sir Peter Hutchinson, Terence Mallinson and Bridget Bloom.
The retirement of the chair of the HGTAC (Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee): (see comments for correction of name and designation of Roger Turner RSPB)
Peter Murray, David Bills, Sir Mark Russell, John Brasier, Roger Clarke, John Fletcher, Peter Wilson, David Foot, Frank Strange
Forestry Commissioners Meeting August 1990:
John Denton Pollock, Ron Hancock, Sir Michael Strang-Steel, Ian Coutts, Charles Woosnam, Terence Mallinson, Peter Clarke, Gwyn Francis, Sir Raymond Johnston, David Foot, Roger Bradley and David Grundy.
Forestry Commissioners in the HQ Boardroom in 1995:
John Edmonds, Harry Fetherstonhaugh, Terrence Mallinson, Robin B. Grove-White, Sir Michael Strang-Steel, Bridget Bloom, Tim Rollinson, David Foot, Roger Bradley, David Grundy, Robin Cutler and Sir Peter Hutchinson.
A Memorable Afternoon
Arthur Miller reports on the North Wales Group’s visit during the summer to the Yr Ysgwrn hill farm overlooking Trawsfynydd Lake. The group heard the poignant tale of “The Empty Chair”. Photographs by Les Starling.
Family Tree Research
Diane Birkett gives some tips on Family Tree research.
Letters to the Editor
The Jamie’s Tool Collection article in the Winter 2018 issue brought back many memories of forestry tools for Martin Fletcher.
Peter Fairweather, ex-factor Argyll Estates, Inveraray also found the Tool Collection article interesting and believes he has used most of them.
From the Editor
A comment from Richard Toleman.
Obituaries
John Martin tells of the death of John Beattie who had a varied career as a mechanical engineer in the FC. He died last November aged 74.
Graham Hamilton remembers Roger Brown who died in December 2018. After graduating from Edinburgh University, Roger joined the Forestry Commission in 1964.
Henry Smith’s son, Chris, has written of his father’s death in February aged 92. He had worked for the FC from 1949 to 1986.
The death of David Grundy has been reported. He was well known to many who worked in Silvan House.
Roderick Carter Stern who was born in 1928 and joined the Forestry Commission in 1950 has died.
The man at the front (with the unfortunate label in 2025 eyes) is Roger Turner Forestry Policy Officer of RSPB Comment left on 26 February 2025 at 19:09 by John Burrow