Retirement presentation to Sandy Tough 1991
Image courtesy of Sandy Tough, Huntly.
Retirement presentation to Sandy Tough, Office Manager with Riddochs.
Following 8 years working as a railway clerk and 3 years in the Royal Navy, Sandy Tough joined AG & WJ Riddoch Timber Merchants as an office clerk in 1953 shortly after the big wind blow in January of that year. At this time the company started an expansion of their operations and in 1954 moved from their small office in Tarryblake Estate to Mannochhill, a former manse in Rothiemay.
The office staff increased from around 10 to around 20 over the years and Sandy worked his way up to be Office Manager. Sandy recalls that in the late 1950s there would have been over 400 employees and around 20 small mills all sending their stock sheets, working hours and details into the office where wages and sales and timber stocks were all calculated manually.
Following modernisation and changes of ownership the office complex was moved to Elgin in the early 70s. After the purchase of the company by James Jones in 1989, Sandy Tough and his fellow Riddoch office staff were based at Mosstodloch where the company name was still used mainly for fencing products.
The people present in the photograph are from the left:
John Kissock
Sandy Tough
Tom Bruce Jones
Violet Tough
Willie MacPherson extreme right (Retired Director of Riddochs)
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Groups: Groups of people, Northeast Scotland , Sawmills, pulp mills, chipboard mills