Mill of Foresterhill
@millofforesterhill.bsky.social
History & Scottish Heritage, Meal Mills, Reliability Engineering
Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire
Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire
Glad to see the old mill at Lethenty being saved. Located between Meldrum Inverurie.
Good to see Lethenty Mill, near Inverurie, being renovated. This old water-driven meal mill was more recently a country furniture making workshop before a major fire a few years ago.
October 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Glad to see the old mill at Lethenty being saved. Located between Meldrum Inverurie.
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Calling heritage and local history societies!
What platforms do you use to share your digital collections & photo archives online? Our society's old system is now defunct, so we’re looking for a good replacement.
Any recommendations appreciated!
#DigitalHeritage #DigitalPreservation
What platforms do you use to share your digital collections & photo archives online? Our society's old system is now defunct, so we’re looking for a good replacement.
Any recommendations appreciated!
#DigitalHeritage #DigitalPreservation
October 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Calling heritage and local history societies!
What platforms do you use to share your digital collections & photo archives online? Our society's old system is now defunct, so we’re looking for a good replacement.
Any recommendations appreciated!
#DigitalHeritage #DigitalPreservation
What platforms do you use to share your digital collections & photo archives online? Our society's old system is now defunct, so we’re looking for a good replacement.
Any recommendations appreciated!
#DigitalHeritage #DigitalPreservation
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The picture shows the Meldrum Volunteers lined up to greet Queen Victoria as she passed through Oldmeldrum. So, while the Queen journeyed through Meldrum, a grandson of Mounie was commanding forces in one of the defining conflicts of British Empire
October 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The picture shows the Meldrum Volunteers lined up to greet Queen Victoria as she passed through Oldmeldrum. So, while the Queen journeyed through Meldrum, a grandson of Mounie was commanding forces in one of the defining conflicts of British Empire
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On this day, 14 Oct 1857 - Queen Victoria passed through Oldmeldrum to visit the Earl of Aberdeen as British troops were fighting in India during the 'Siege & Relief of Lucknow', led by Gen Sir James Outram, whose grandfather Dr James Anderson married the heiress of Mounie Castle, outside Oldmeldrum
October 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
On this day, 14 Oct 1857 - Queen Victoria passed through Oldmeldrum to visit the Earl of Aberdeen as British troops were fighting in India during the 'Siege & Relief of Lucknow', led by Gen Sir James Outram, whose grandfather Dr James Anderson married the heiress of Mounie Castle, outside Oldmeldrum
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Meldrum & Bourtie Heritage is back!
New and revamped website launching soon, archive work under way, and new stories from our photo collection coming to light.
More very soon - looking forward to sharing what’s next!
#Heritage #Oldmeldrum #ScottishHistory #Bourtie
New and revamped website launching soon, archive work under way, and new stories from our photo collection coming to light.
More very soon - looking forward to sharing what’s next!
#Heritage #Oldmeldrum #ScottishHistory #Bourtie
October 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Meldrum & Bourtie Heritage is back!
New and revamped website launching soon, archive work under way, and new stories from our photo collection coming to light.
More very soon - looking forward to sharing what’s next!
#Heritage #Oldmeldrum #ScottishHistory #Bourtie
New and revamped website launching soon, archive work under way, and new stories from our photo collection coming to light.
More very soon - looking forward to sharing what’s next!
#Heritage #Oldmeldrum #ScottishHistory #Bourtie
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So, I noticed a new evolution in the way comics are displayed in book stores today. I found a shop that placed comics in the comics section, but also on a single shelf at the end of each genre section. So if you are browsing fantasy, the books beyond Z are all fantasy comics.
September 26, 2025 at 6:14 AM
So, I noticed a new evolution in the way comics are displayed in book stores today. I found a shop that placed comics in the comics section, but also on a single shelf at the end of each genre section. So if you are browsing fantasy, the books beyond Z are all fantasy comics.
A new carbuncle to replace the old carbuncle which replaced Archibald Simpson’s 19thC original? #AberdeenMarket
August 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A new carbuncle to replace the old carbuncle which replaced Archibald Simpson’s 19thC original? #AberdeenMarket
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Volunteers are welcome to join the project to help in the transcription! All volunteers will be named as co-editors, whether you contribute a line or multiple pages. For more info, contact the project lead, Aaron Allen, on administrator@kirkwalltailorsproject.co.uk
#palaeography #Orkney
#palaeography #Orkney
August 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Volunteers are welcome to join the project to help in the transcription! All volunteers will be named as co-editors, whether you contribute a line or multiple pages. For more info, contact the project lead, Aaron Allen, on administrator@kirkwalltailorsproject.co.uk
#palaeography #Orkney
#palaeography #Orkney
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It's "help an undergraduate research project time"!
Siân is researching how well Scottish people and Scots speakers are understood. Listen to some audio clips and see how well you fare. Took me less than 10mins and it was very fun!
forms.gle/wUJBQquieSt2...
#OldWeirdScotland
Siân is researching how well Scottish people and Scots speakers are understood. Listen to some audio clips and see how well you fare. Took me less than 10mins and it was very fun!
forms.gle/wUJBQquieSt2...
#OldWeirdScotland
Language understanding study
This research project is being undertaken as part of an undergraduate degree in the School of Arts, Culture and Language at Bangor University.
The focus of the study is to research the understanding ...
forms.gle
August 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It's "help an undergraduate research project time"!
Siân is researching how well Scottish people and Scots speakers are understood. Listen to some audio clips and see how well you fare. Took me less than 10mins and it was very fun!
forms.gle/wUJBQquieSt2...
#OldWeirdScotland
Siân is researching how well Scottish people and Scots speakers are understood. Listen to some audio clips and see how well you fare. Took me less than 10mins and it was very fun!
forms.gle/wUJBQquieSt2...
#OldWeirdScotland
Privileges to work on and salvage from the Vasa were granted to Colonel Alexander Forbes from Aberdeenshire in 1652 - later sold to his business partner Hans Albrekt von Trieileben in 1663 who had been the first to use diving bells at depth
Today in 1628 the Vasa, the latest, most powerful and advanced ship in the Swedish navy set off on its maiden voyage.
After travelling about 1,300m it capsized and sank.
It was raised after 333 years on the seabed.
Today @thevasamuseum is one of my favourite places in the world.
After travelling about 1,300m it capsized and sank.
It was raised after 333 years on the seabed.
Today @thevasamuseum is one of my favourite places in the world.
August 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Privileges to work on and salvage from the Vasa were granted to Colonel Alexander Forbes from Aberdeenshire in 1652 - later sold to his business partner Hans Albrekt von Trieileben in 1663 who had been the first to use diving bells at depth
Dog Walking evening
August 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Dog Walking evening
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Solving the mystery of 'the old Inverurie fiddle' and its origins. Who made it? And why? How my research uncovered a story of community life and personal tragedy in nineteenth century north east Scotland.
See and hear the lightly restored fiddle in my article here:
monsgraupius.org/inverurie-pl...
See and hear the lightly restored fiddle in my article here:
monsgraupius.org/inverurie-pl...
July 27, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Solving the mystery of 'the old Inverurie fiddle' and its origins. Who made it? And why? How my research uncovered a story of community life and personal tragedy in nineteenth century north east Scotland.
See and hear the lightly restored fiddle in my article here:
monsgraupius.org/inverurie-pl...
See and hear the lightly restored fiddle in my article here:
monsgraupius.org/inverurie-pl...
Son is off to Edinburgh in Sep to study Geology/Geophysics. He’s trying escape me boring him with S. Enlightenment era stuff!
3 June 1726 (old calendar): Birth of James Hutton, son of an Edinburgh merchant. Physician, chemist, agriculturalist and geologist, Hutton was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment in the late 18th century. His Theory of the Earth (1788/95) set the new science of geology on its modern course.
July 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Son is off to Edinburgh in Sep to study Geology/Geophysics. He’s trying escape me boring him with S. Enlightenment era stuff!
Roasting here 🥵 Its not that often I can sit outside and read the quarterly Mill News!
July 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Roasting here 🥵 Its not that often I can sit outside and read the quarterly Mill News!
Anyone know if Cumberland’s army billeted at Cullen en route to Culloden?
@maggiecraig.bsky.social
@maggiecraig.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Anyone know if Cumberland’s army billeted at Cullen en route to Culloden?
@maggiecraig.bsky.social
@maggiecraig.bsky.social
Our Meldrum & Bourtie Heritage Society photo displat today at #OldmeldrumSports. Noisy, set up next to the wrestling show!
June 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Our Meldrum & Bourtie Heritage Society photo displat today at #OldmeldrumSports. Noisy, set up next to the wrestling show!
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Join us this Thursday for the next Community Stories - Community Archives skills session: Preservation for Community Archives!
Thank you to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for making these sessions possible.
Book your space via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preservati...
Thank you to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for making these sessions possible.
Book your space via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preservati...
Preservation for Community Archives
Learn more about caring for the items in your archive collections
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June 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Join us this Thursday for the next Community Stories - Community Archives skills session: Preservation for Community Archives!
Thank you to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for making these sessions possible.
Book your space via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preservati...
Thank you to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for making these sessions possible.
Book your space via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preservati...
Sunday morning stroll round Marble Arch
June 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Sunday morning stroll round Marble Arch
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So I think I need to do a sober thread on just how disasterously bad the new trove.scot website is, in comparison to the sites - especially Canmore - that it's replacing.
tl:dr - the new site is not fit for purpose; switching off the old sites on 24 June 2025 is way way way premature.
tl:dr - the new site is not fit for purpose; switching off the old sites on 24 June 2025 is way way way premature.
May 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
So I think I need to do a sober thread on just how disasterously bad the new trove.scot website is, in comparison to the sites - especially Canmore - that it's replacing.
tl:dr - the new site is not fit for purpose; switching off the old sites on 24 June 2025 is way way way premature.
tl:dr - the new site is not fit for purpose; switching off the old sites on 24 June 2025 is way way way premature.
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17 May is Norwegian Constitution Day. The Tog, 2025, through Kirkwall to St Magnus Cathedral was led by Kirkwall City Pipe Band. #Orkney #Norway
youtu.be/QcNQVGZ1hQA?...
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Orkney Celebrates the Independence of Norway
YouTube video by The Orkney News
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May 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
17 May is Norwegian Constitution Day. The Tog, 2025, through Kirkwall to St Magnus Cathedral was led by Kirkwall City Pipe Band. #Orkney #Norway
youtu.be/QcNQVGZ1hQA?...
youtu.be/QcNQVGZ1hQA?...
Lazy Sunday
May 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Lazy Sunday
Nice day here again 🌞
May 12, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Nice day here again 🌞
I was lying in there somewhere!
Aberdeen fans on the ferry home from Gothenburg. (1983)
April 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I was lying in there somewhere!
Meldrum are Aberdeenshire Schools cup winners, beating Kemnay 3-2 today. Son was Meldrum CB, and has last ever day at school tomorrow.
April 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Meldrum are Aberdeenshire Schools cup winners, beating Kemnay 3-2 today. Son was Meldrum CB, and has last ever day at school tomorrow.