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Mill of Udny

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Woodhill Home Farm

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Old Town Farm, May, 1951

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Sclattie Farm, Inverurie Road, Bucksburn.

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Chapel Farm, Bucksburn.

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Chapel Farm, Bucksburn.

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This photograph from the early 1900's shows a pair of farm workers loading a cart with hay. After the hay was cut it would be forked into haycocks in the fields, hopefully drying in the sun and wind. It would be turned regularly to ensure it became fairly dry or 'wun'. The man on top of the cart receives forkfuls of hay lifted up to him by the other men, and it was his job to arrange it so that it lay neatly and didn't unbalance and fall off as the cart travelled back to the farm. Once there loads of hay would be built into hayricks, thatched to ensure that rain didn't soak inside.

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Since farmwork was entirely dependent on horses and horsemen a great deal of pride was taken in them. It was common in the early 1900's for itinerant photographers to travel around to take photos of the farm workers. Here we see three horsemen with their pairs of Clydesdales. Farmworkers had a strict division of labour so that cattlemen did not work with horses and vice versa. Horsemen had their own hierarchy - the most experienced man would be first horseman and the other took their place down to the youngest and least experienced. The first horseman would lead out to the fields and the others followed in order and they would work the fields in the same manner. Even when all the workers were hoeing fields horseman would outrank cattlemen.

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This photograph, likely by James G. Kellas and taken in around 1951, looks north west towards the farm of Westerton of Auchmill. Its buildings are located just north east of the Northfield housing estate and remain at this location as of 2020. They are now largely bordered by Auchmill Golf Course, which also covers the previously nearby Dancing Cairns Quarry. While the farm buildings still exist, this lane, which in the opposite direction would have lead to Westerton/Midtown Farm, has been replaced by the housing around Bonnyview Drive.

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A photograph, likely by James G. Kellas and from around 1951, showing one of either two farms known as Westerton. Both have since been demolished. It could be the Westerton Farm that was located on the old road that preceded Provost Fraser Drive. Near where Provost Fraser Drive now meets Springhill Road, in the space between Provost Fraser and Springhill Terrace. This Westerton Farm was demolished shortly after this photograph was taken to make way for the development of the Northfield housing estate. Across the old road from this farm was the lands of Springhill House and Farm. The other Westerton Farm was just to the north east of Northfield Farm and a bit south of Dancing Cairns Quarry. This farm was also previously known as Midtown. Like Northfield Farm (demolished late 50s/early 60s), this Westerton survived the initial development of Northfield as a housing estate. Ordnance Survey maps suggest the farm made way for the construction of Marchburn Court, and the extension of Smithyhaugh Road, in the mid-to-late 1960s. It is difficult to say for certain which farm this photograph shows. The hills in the background perhaps suggest we are looking west towards the more northernly Westerton, the one nearer Northfield Farm.

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A photograph of Springhill Farm. Looking north up Springhill Road. The building on the left can still been seen in 2017. The land around the farm and Springhill estate has been radically altered over the years. It is now flat parkland. This photograph was likely taken by James G. Kellas in around 1951.

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An image looking north east showing Silverhillock Farm. The property, through which flowed the Gilcomston Burn, was located at the junction of Westburn Road and Foresterhill Road. Silver City Vault users Graeme Fraser and Joan Clark inform us that the farm was inhabited by the Rae family prior to the property being developed in the southwards expansion of the Foresterhill complex. Joan's paternal grandparents, lived there before moving to Hazlehead, where her grandfather worked with Smith & Sons Nursery. Her parents moved in when they married in 1927. The Royal Infirmary buildings can be seen in the background. Silver City Vault user Philip Wright explains that in 1953 the farmhouse was used as a stable for a horse drawn cart that sold vegetables around the houses in the Midstocket area. As a young boy he would feed the horse when it reached his home at the top of Harcourt Road, beside St. Ninian's Parish Church (now Midstocket Parish Church).

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This photograph by James Kellas from the early 1950s shows a farm called Mains of Ruthrieston. It was located where Cranford Road joins Broomhill Road. This image looks north east from Cranford Road. (Thanks to A. G. Duthie for identifying this location).

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This photograph by James Kellas from the early 1950s shows Denhead Farm in the area of Rubislaw. It was located on the south side of Carnegie Crescent, north of the western part of Rubislaw Den. Local historian A. G. Duthie has been in touch to tell us that the Duncan family, who were tenants there, ran the farm as one of many market gardens in the Rubislaw Den area. It was a working farm until the later 1950s when it was demolished as part of residential development.

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This image taken in the early 1950s looks north along a small road, roughly located in line with present day Craigiebuckler Avenue, towards Burnieboozle Croft and Farm. The line of trees in the background mark the side of Hazledene Road. Along this track in the opposite direction is the location of Burnieboolze House. (Many thanks to A. G. Duthie for identifying this location).

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This photograph, likely dating from the early 1950s, looks north east and shows the yard of Burnieboozle Farm. It was located at the junction of Hazledene Road and what is now Craigiebuckler Avenue. (Many thanks to A. G. Duthie for identifying this location).