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Toll Road South
LIDAR image with features identified on the ground indicated. Southern part of the Toll Road area of Bennachie.
Towie firm has got it on tape!
Recording the release of film of Bennachie by the Baillies, and made by Grimley Partnership. The video portrays the history of the hill and its surroundings with poetry and music.
Archive Record No 6/1/14.
Two letters from RJ Marnie (Forestry Commission) to James MacKay (Bailies) re attached newspaper clipping People's Journal
Marnie takes issue with newspaper article that the Bailies got all the credit for the work on the paths on Bennachie rather than the Forestry Commission. Mention of info board replacement; "tatty" carpark sign not FC's responsibility.
Two letters relating to the restoration and reopening of the Rowantree Footpath
One letter is from Scottish Woodlands Ltd thanking James MacKay for agreeing to make a speech at the reopening ceremony, the second is the invitiation from Pittodrie House Hotel to the ceremony and lunch reception.
Two transliterated Ogham inscriptions
Translations of Ogham inscriptions on stones
Very angry letter from James McKay (Bailies) to the Forestry Commission Conservator re the lateness of the info leaflet on Bennachie and the Gordon Way
James is highly critical of the delay in the production of the leaflet which was to be published in May 1990, he notes he put in a lot of work for free and is angry that there had been no leaflets for the public despite huge interest;
View from UF Church spire
A typed essay / caption for a photograph taken from the spire of the United Free Church in Kemnay.
West End
This is the Western-most croft of the colonies and it is said that when the foundations were first laid, the Laird’s men kept knocking them down. But persistence prevailed and eventually the house was built.