Ian and Elsie Bremner, in the Chicken Run attached to No 3 Forest Worker Holding, Bin Forest.

With a view across the water to the Faskally House, this image shows trainees using callipers to measure the diameter of a tree. The man doing the ‘booking’ is Bill Elger and one of the trio at the tree is Maxi Craig.

One of the four squads who worked in Ardross Forest about this time. The lorry is a Forestry Commission owned Ford Thames with a canopy on the back in which the men were transported to work sites.

This image is taken from a card on which appears to celebrate the 1954 intake of young men or boys for the two year skilled forest worker apprenticeship training at Strathyre Forest.

The two people in the image are throwing sawmill offcuts into the wood shed as a stockpile for the wood fires in each of the huts.

The village of Dalavich, built to house Forestry Commission workers.

This is how the Forestry Commission signposted its forests circa 1956. Note the formal reference to State Forest. The signs were all cast metal.

The rider of this 350cc Royal Enfield is thought to be H S Macdonald of the Lochaber MCC possibly talking part in the Six Days’ Trials.

William Fleming spent two years on a Forestry Commission apprentice scheme in Strathyre Forest living in the hostel with about 16 other young lads. Here some of his forestry colleagues Jimmy Dewar and Fred Menzies squaring up for the photograph with James Stuart looking on from the lining out boards.

George Dey with timber girthing tape at some large P16 Sitka spruce (planted 1916) when Inverliever was part of the Crown Estate.

Bob Crozier, Head Forester at Inverliever Forest, in a stand of Sitka spruce planted in 1918 (42 years old).

A 1950 newspaper cutting, courtesy of Jim Morrison of Huntly, showing an image of two men beside a 200 year old tree that they have just cut down. The text says: ‘One by one the woodland veterans of Rothiemay have been falling – but the fall of ‘’Adam and Eve’’, two 120 foot high silver spruces (most likely European silver fir) which ‘’grew in beauty side by side’’ for two centuries, was attended by special ceremony. Here Douglas Campbell and Alex Webster are counting the rings of Adam’s trunk.’

One of the squads working in forestry at Glenfinart in 1949.

A permanent sample plot of Norway Spruce, located on some of the steep slopes of Portclair Forest.

This haunting image shows the forestry house building scheme in progress on the Loch front as the outlines begin to take shape.

This photograph shows the forestry students’ efforts to produce a ‘Broons’ parade float for the local gala day at Peebles.

This photograph shows the forestry students’ efforts to produce a ‘Broons’ parade float for the local gala day at Peebles.

Wilfred Lawson’s Forester’s Certificate, from Benmore Forester Training School.

Fred Menzie and Bill Dye having a piece break outside a sawmill site at Immervoulin round about 1950. The logs stacked behind the men look like hardwoods perhaps some are birch but the speckle of snow may be creating that impression.

Lord Robinson of Kielder Forest. Largely responsible for the report which led to the establishment of the Forestry Commission in 1919 and his appointment as its technical commissioner.

Alex MacLeman and Ian Mackay at Strathcarron. MacLeman was forester for both North and South Strome forests, Mackay was forester at Achnashellach. They used to meet up at Lochcarron on a regular basis.

The Duke of Edinburgh visits Culbin Forest in 1952 (newspaper cutting).

Ed Grigor, a forester in Glen Isla, is shown dressed in a fine new forester’s uniform of the time.

The Forestry houses, made from British timber, are just being finished off in this image. Some are occupied - you can see smoke coming from the chimney and some washing hanging out.

The winter of January 1952 was quite a hard one. Sheep owned by the Forestry Commission were taken off the high ground, as they were at risk of getting lost in the forest.