Around the village
The War Memorial - WW1 Pte 1716 Murdoch Nicholson on plaque should read Pte 1716 Murdoch Nicolson as notified by his great nephew.
Does anyone know where this swing bridge was? Yes, Milton Cottage Balvarran.The swing bridge pictured was over the Ardle at Balvarran Cottages and led onto a path to Loch Cottage. A short cut to the main road for the bus presumably.
James Small of Dirnanean Monument at road junction . It has now been moved to the side of the junction after damage.
This page was added by Sally Gingell on 01/02/2016.
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The first photo on this page is incorrect.My great uncle Murdoch Nicolson is remembered on the 3 remaining church tablets, 2 of which are located at Glenshee Parish Church inside the church and outside in the graveyard. The other one is situated on the outside wall of Netherton Church. Could this please be amended as the war memorial shown is incorrect. I can send you a photo of the tablet should you so wish.
Redhu House.
Patrick Keir and his wife Amelia Menzies’ (of Menzies Castle) eldest daughter Katherine (Catherine) died in Redhu House on 17 April 1916 at the age of 79 after moving here from Kindrogan House in her much later years following the onset of Dementia. Kindrogan House passed to her nephew Francis (Frank) Balfour on her move here.
Knocsualtach was once a sanatorium — but was it “Dr Miles”? My husband’s grandfather, Mr Alexander Miles, owned the house until (I believe) after the war. He was a surgeon, based in Edinburgh. But I don’t think he was in charge when it was a sanatorium. That could, of course, have been a completely different “Dr Miles”.
The old dairy Main Street is actually Balchrochan farm I’m sure looking towards the Craggen road
Knocksultach was once Dr Miles’ TB sanatorium. The idea was that Strathardle clean mountain air was good to recover from TB. The stones to build it were all cut from the bottom moor at Croftmuir just up the road. The ploughed field on the left was David Sutherland’s from The Boreland
The “Dounie Mill 1970” shows the Dounie Mill cottage during Charlie Nairn’s restoration, carried out by Dan Webster, Jimmie Wilkinson and Menzie’s, mainly by Keek Keiro and Ali Martin. That’s Charlie and Gordon Duncan from Croftmuir farm walking over where the old Dounie Mill cow-byre was.
The “Dounie Threshing Mill 1972” is surely the Balchrochan threshing mill? The Dounie Mill was water-powered [as you can see above] but the Balchrochan one was circular – so for horses [or cattle] to go round and round turning the mill. The Pitcarmick round-room added on in the 1970s was based on this Mill.
Photo tagged as just outside Kirkmichael on froad to Enochdhu is actualy just outside Br of Cally on way to Kirkie I think.
Old dairy main street is not Kirkmichael dairy
The swing bridge pictured was over the Ardle at Balvarran Cottages and led onto a path to Loch Cottage. A short cut to the main road for the bus presumably.
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