A lunch break on a planting site - Benmore Forestry Students c1952
The photograph is courtesy of Jim Millar, Banbury who attended Benmore from 1952 – 1954.
This snap shot taken at a meal break is of five forestry students who had been planting trees on a new site or possibly on a long since felled site. Jim has named the students as:
Willie Patience (far bottom left)
Frank Marks (near front left)
Ernie Clark (far centre)
Jim Millar (near centre)
Frank Cameron (top right)
The planting spade with the wooden D handle has a straight shaft and is most likely a Schlich spade with a pointed blade designed to go straight into the ground and levered back and fore to create a planting hole for the young tree.
Any details of the onward careers of the students would be very welcome.
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