Black Isle landscape from Drumdirfit? Drumchirfit?

Date Added: 13 August 2024 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1976 Picture No: 5893

The photograph was taken by the late Finlay MacRae who was a District Officer in the Forestry Commission based in Dingwall at the time. The images are courtesy of his daughter Donna.

Location name is uncertain but the image possibly features two Forestry Commission personnel. The man on the left may be wearing a forester’s jacket with the red collar but difficult to make out.

Can anyone name the gentlemen?

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Looks as though the site has been swiped, with a tractor swipe, from the semi-circular edges of dead gorse, in the foreground.

The hill on the extreme left horizon is Sgurr na Lapich, above Loch Affric and Affric Lodge. The conical hill on the horizon, middle right, is Meallan nan Uan, with Sgurr a' Mhuuilinn and its ridge to the north (right side) that are to the north of Strathconon. I think that the large house to the right, with the shelter woods on three sides might be Allangrange House. Drumdirfit Hill lies to the southeast of the Littlemill Bridge on the main road from Munlochy, to North Kessock and is now a plantation, above Bogallan Wood.

Drumdirfit Hill
British National Grid Ref: NH 65594 51627
BNG Eastings, Northings: 265594, 851627
Latitude, Longitude: 57.534750, -4.246655
Comment left on 14 August 2024 at 22:39 by Bill Rayner

Hi Norman, The two forester's are Willie Nicolson
he was the head forester at Munlochy Black Isle and
John MaGavin harvesting forester also Munlochy
Willie has the walking stick John with the pipe Comment left on 16 August 2024 at 10:25 by BRIAN PETER FLETCHER

Aye Brian,

Thank you for your corrections to my guesswork of the names of the two foresters in Finlay's image. I have removed my offending paragraph.

Good health, Bill Comment left on 16 August 2024 at 20:35 by Bill Rayner

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