Serendipitous find of the day! A 3 ft waterwheel, almost exactly a quarter-scale replica of my own 12 ft mill wheel. Too good to leave behind. Next project, refurbishing it and installing it in the burn alongside the old mill stream. Watch this space… #waterwheels

Saline Hill earlier this evening - from MiLs kitchen window

Highlight of my week in retirement - Friday coffee and sandwich at the #MeldrumCafe !

Anyone know anything about this sketch-ad which is in ‘Painting the Town’ 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.

Trying to decipher a profession in 1864 Scottish death register. Col 2, row 3 reads “_____ carpenter”. The same word appears in column 6 for his father’s occupation. I know from other sources he was a millwright, but it doesn’t clearly look like millwright. Any palaeography experts have suggestions?

Awards for IASSL members: @murrayp.bsky.social (@glasgow.ac.uk) has been awarded the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow’s Glasgow Medal and the honorary degree of D.Litt. from @robertgordonuni.bsky.social in Aberdeen. Photo: Prof. Pat Monaghan presents the Glasgow Medal

We’re 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 “Women and Children First”. Written by MBHS committee member Deborah A. O’Neil OBE, FRSE meldrumheritage.org/alexande-set...

Here’s 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 Aerolíneas Argentinas aircraft landed during Operation Condor in 1966 @bas.ac.uk

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...

Prague booked! Just need a couple of match tickets now! #COYR 🇦🇹 ⚽️

Glad to see the old mill at Lethenty being saved. Located between Meldrum Inverurie.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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!

Anyone know if Cumberland’s army billeted at Cullen en route to Culloden? @maggiecraig.bsky.social

Our Meldrum & Bourtie Heritage Society photo displat today at #OldmeldrumSports. Noisy, set up next to the wrestling show!

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...

Sunday morning stroll round Marble Arch

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.

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?...

Lazy Sunday

Nice day here again 🌞

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.

BBC News - Cash boost to restore 300-year-old water mill www.bbc.com/news/article...

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!

That feeling when you stumble across a book sale and find these gems nestling in the pile. 📚 Now to make room for them. @oldscotbooks.bsky.social

Happy to see we’re there!

Explore the locations of historic mills in Scotland with @natlibscot.bsky.social #maps #📚 #🗃️ #geography #skystorians maps.nls.uk/projects/mil...

Scorhill Stone Circle near Gidleigh, #Dartmoor #StandingStoneSunday

Found this 6” deep on our field - inscribed ‘Robertson & Thom, Aberdeen’. Anyone know what it is?

Serious issues reported from here at Mill of Foresterhill Dec 1864, Aberdeen People’s 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!

View from office this morning. Also a nice wee mural near Holburn Street.

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 👇

Eiffel Tower jigsaw puzzle - also a Mill issue.

Sad news about the ‘Lawman’ This is the view from my work office. #DenisLaw

Hello Bluesky👋 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

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...

Nice looking day with no breeze, but that’s the coldest morning yet.

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 👇 but please watch this space and follow @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social for what comes next…