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History & Scottish Heritage, Meal Mills, Reliability Engineering Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire
Saline Hill earlier this evening - from MiLs kitchen window
about 2 months ago
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Highlight of my week in retirement - Friday coffee and sandwich at the
#MeldrumCafe
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about 2 months ago
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Anyone know anything about this sketch-ad which is in âPainting the Townâ by Patricia Dennison et al but the reference only says advertisement for Aberdeen Assurance Company' and no word of where it was found or other info.
2 months ago
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Trying to decipher a profession in 1864 Scottish death register. Col 2, row 3 reads â_____ carpenterâ. The same word appears in column 6 for his fatherâs occupation. I know from other sources he was a millwright, but it doesnât clearly look like millwright. Any palaeography experts have suggestions?
2 months ago
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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures
3 months ago
Awards for IASSL members:
@murrayp.bsky.social
(
@glasgow.ac.uk
) has been awarded the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgowâs Glasgow Medal and the honorary degree of D.Litt. from
@robertgordonuni.bsky.social
in Aberdeen. Photo: Prof. Pat Monaghan presents the Glasgow Medal
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Meldrum Heritage
3 months ago
Weâre pleased to publish the 1st in our new online heritage series. This article explores Lt-Col Alexander Seton of Mounie and the 1852 sinking of HMS Birkenhead - origin of âWomen and Children Firstâ. Written by MBHS committee member Deborah A. OâNeil OBE, FRSE
meldrumheritage.org/alexande-set...
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Alexander Seton - Women and Children First - Meldrum & Bourtie Heritage Society
To take your chance in the thick of a rush, with firing all about, Is nothing so bad when you've cover to 'and, an' leave an' likin' to shout; But to stand an' be still to the Birken'ead drill is a da...
https://meldrumheritage.org/alexande-seton-women-and.../
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Hereâs another 'Coolman' Antarctic carpenter. My uncle, Allan Green (centre), a BAS carpenter during rebuilds at Signy mid-1960s. He also worked on Deception Island, and was in the Falklands with BAS when the hijacked AerolĂneas Argentinas aircraft landed during Operation Condor in 1966
@bas.ac.uk
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4 months ago
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Maggie Craig
5 months ago
Thank you for the kind words! Here's the link to the wee YouTube video I did about Hugh Mercer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_UY...
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Prague booked! Just need a couple of match tickets now!
#COYR
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7 months ago
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Glad to see the old mill at Lethenty being saved. Located between Meldrum Inverurie.
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7 months ago
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Meldrum Heritage
8 months ago
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 weâre looking for a good replacement. Any recommendations appreciated!
#DigitalHeritage
#DigitalPreservation
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Meldrum Heritage
8 months ago
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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Meldrum Heritage
8 months ago
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 Heritage
8 months ago
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 whatâs next!
#Heritage
#Oldmeldrum
#ScottishHistory
#Bourtie
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Mark Truesdale
8 months ago
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.
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A new carbuncle to replace the old carbuncle which replaced Archibald Simpsonâs 19thC original?
#AberdeenMarket
9 months ago
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Kirkwall Tailors Project
9 months ago
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
[email protected]
#palaeography
#Orkney
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Old Weird Scotland
10 months ago
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
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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 ...
https://forms.gle/wUJBQquieSt2h4BL8
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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
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10 months ago
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Dog Walking evening
10 months ago
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Dr Sally Garden
10 months ago
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...
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Son is off to Edinburgh in Sep to study Geology/Geophysics. Heâs trying escape me boring him with S. Enlightenment era stuff!
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11 months ago
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Roasting here 𼾠Its not that often I can sit outside and read the quarterly Mill News!
11 months ago
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Anyone know if Cumberlandâs army billeted at Cullen en route to Culloden?
@maggiecraig.bsky.social
11 months ago
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Our Meldrum & Bourtie Heritage Society photo displat today at
#OldmeldrumSports
. Noisy, set up next to the wrestling show!
11 months ago
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Scottish Council on Archives
12 months ago
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...
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Preservation for Community Archives
Learn more about caring for the items in your archive collections
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preservation-for-community-archives-tickets-1365796306519?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Sunday morning stroll round Marble Arch
12 months ago
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about 1 year ago
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.
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The Orkney News
about 1 year ago
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
https://youtu.be/QcNQVGZ1hQA?si=fzurDemdoqzYc05Y
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Lazy Sunday
about 1 year ago
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Nice day here again đ
about 1 year ago
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I was lying in there somewhere!
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about 1 year ago
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Meldrum are Aberdeenshire Schools cup winners, beating Kemnay 3-2 today. Son was Meldrum CB, and has last ever day at school tomorrow.
about 1 year ago
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Lance Racey (aka CranesfootLance)
about 1 year ago
BBC News - Cash boost to restore 300-year-old water mill
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Cash boost to restore Gloucester's historic Sheriff's Mill
A footbridge and an artificial stream from the Sheriff's Mill in Gloucester will be preserved.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1d49gexgw5o
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Rhona Brown
about 1 year ago
Looking forward to seeing Aberdeen friends next week to talk about editing the works of Robert Fergusson. Did you know... Fergusson is most often associated with Edinburgh - his beloved 'Auld Reikie' - but his family originated in Aberdeenshire. Will be good to be in the Fergusson homeland!
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That feeling when you stumble across a book sale and find these gems nestling in the pile. đ Now to make room for them.
@oldscotbooks.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
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Happy to see weâre there!
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over 1 year ago
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The Past and other Places
over 1 year ago
Explore the locations of historic mills in Scotland with
@natlibscot.bsky.social
#maps
#đ
#đď¸
#geography
#skystorians
maps.nls.uk/projects/mil...
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David Birch
over 1 year ago
Scorhill Stone Circle near Gidleigh,
#Dartmoor
#StandingStoneSunday
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Found this 6â deep on our field - inscribed âRobertson & Thom, Aberdeenâ. Anyone know what it is?
over 1 year ago
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Serious issues reported from here at Mill of Foresterhill Dec 1864, Aberdeen Peopleâs Journal - a hen hatched 9/10 eggs outside during rainy weather. Article placed in between articles reporting a body found at sea and a sudden death!
over 1 year ago
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View from office this morning. Also a nice wee mural near Holburn Street.
over 1 year ago
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Rhona Brown
over 1 year ago
We'd love to have your submissions for a new collection of poems responding to the life, works and legacies of 18thC Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson, published by Taproot Press. Deadline extended and full info đ
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Eiffel Tower jigsaw puzzle - also a Mill issue.
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over 1 year ago
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Sad news about the âLawmanâ This is the view from my work office.
#DenisLaw
over 1 year ago
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đSaline & District Heritage Society
over 1 year ago
Hello Blueskyđ We're Saline & District Heritage Society, a community group based in West Fife, Scotland. As well as hosting monthly speaker events we run a summer museum, heritage workshops, archaeological digs & more!
salinedistrictheritagesociety.wordpress.com
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Saline & District Heritage Society
The History and Heritage of Saline & Steelend Fife, Scotland
https://salinedistrictheritagesociety.wordpress.com
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David Worthington
over 1 year ago
In 1653, Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty envisaged a new, tertiary, Highland university embracing "all sciences, liberal disciplines, arts active and factive, mechanick trades, and whatever concernes either vertue or learning, practical or theoretick". 372 years on...
archive.org/details/work...
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Nice looking day with no breeze, but thatâs the coldest morning yet.
over 1 year ago
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Rhona Brown
over 1 year ago
Happy new year from
#ProjectFergusson
! 2024 was a big one for us as we commemorated the 250th anniversary of the death of poet Robert Fergusson (1750-74). You can read about what we got up to đ but please watch this space and follow
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
for what comes nextâŚ
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Not a cook really, but this morning made Lentil & Chicken soup, and a âpuddingâ made with Oats, chopped apple, cinnamon, eggs and yogurt. Tastes ok!
#MillMeals
over 1 year ago
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