Loch Ness Farms and Industries.
Migovie Clipping 1969c
Back;- unknown , Ewen Patterson, Willie Macintosh, Donald John Macintosh, Ewen Fraser.
Middle:- Innes Fraser , Hamish Stoddart, Alex Campbell, Danny Campbell (the trapper), Duncan Macnaughton, Ken Fraser, Willie Fraser .
Front:- Rosemay Thirde, Willie Maclean, Laurence Maclean.
Photograph courtesy of the Fraser family, Gorthleck Mains.
Ewen Fraser feeding the sheep in the field behind Gorthleck House.
Photograph courtesy of the Fraser family, Gorthleck Mains.
Dell Estate workers 1959, Back row L/R: Alan Kennedy, Ian Fraser, Norman Elliot, Aly Fraser, Lewie Fraser. Front row L/R: Douglas Young (Farm manager), Mr Wilson (Agent), George MacDonald (Teep) (Assistant Forester), Walter MacCurrach (Head Forester) and Ian Skinner. Photograph courtesy of John Rule
Ballaggan Harvest c 1920 . A horse drawn reaper cutting corn on Ballaggan farm that was tenanted by the Boyd's at that time, the cut corn was made into sheaf's by hand and them made into stook's as shown in picture. Photograph courtesy of Ian Cameron
Picture taken at Gorthleck Mains showing Angus Mackenzie on the horse binder cutting corn , Note the three horses used to pull the binder .
Photograph courtesy of Angus Mackenzie
Borlam Farm 1940c . Picture shows three horses all tacked up ready to pull a piece of farm machinery. The man is holding up a knife for a binder or a reaper still in its protective sheath so we can assume that they are going to cut corn or hay. Photograph courtesy of Anne Fraser
North Lyne Corn Thrashing c1960. The men having a tea break from thrashing the corn , with threshing mill in the background usually powered by a belt from a pulley on the tractor. L-R Angus Macgillivray, Unknown, unknown, Willie Macintosh( Lyne, The Baker) , Fachie Macdonald, and Donnie Macgruer. Photograph courtesy of Fiona Larg.
Fraser family tea break at Migovie just after the hay bailing 1968c Mayrine, Ian cousin from Glasgow, Willie, John, Kenny, Ewen . Photograph courtesy of the Fraser family, Gorthleck Mains.
Combining at Gorthleck Mains in one of the north facing fields
Photograph courtesy of the Fraser family, Gorthleck Mains.
Combining at Gorthleck Mains,on the field in front of the church.
Photograph courtesy of the Fraser family, Gorthleck Mains.
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