The Culter Mills Paper Company, 1981

The picturesque treed gorge with the previous Rob Roy statue, looking down to the Culter Burn north of the turnpike bridge, looking north.

The website of the Rob Roy Preservation Trust states that this statue was removed in July 2016 due to weather damage. It was replaced by a commissioned replacement statue by sculptor David J. Mitchell.

This image is one of fifteen from a photographic survey of the exterior of Culter Paper Mills and nearby Kennerty Mill undertaken by John A. Souter in the summer of 1981. John kindly donated colour slides of these photographs to Aberdeen City Libraries.

The early history of the Culter Mills Paper Company can be read in the article 'Paper-making on Deeside (1750-1932)' by Alexander A. Cormack in The Deeside Field (sixth number, 1933) pages 36-45. This can be accessed at Aberdeen City Libraries.

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