From a collection of items from a byre in Brock
A 6ft (180cm) pit saw blade
Pit saws were used to cut planks from tree trunks, for house and boat building. The “pit” in Brock would have been a hollow in the sand dunes. The log was placed horizontally across the pit or frame and the saw was usually operated by two men: a top-man above and a pit-man guiding the saw from below. This may have been a one-man saw
With the absence of local sawmills the use of pit saws would have continued long into the 1800s and possibly even the 1900s
From a collection of photographs and items from Lodge Farm, Kirkapol. Presumably taken in Canada.
Written on the reverse:
Family of Hugh Armstrong taken at local Centennial Celebrations
L-R Foster Armstrong eldest son, Katherine Maulson daughter, Dorothy : Hugh’s wife, Hugh wearing Dorothy’s Gt Grandfather’s footman’s outfit worn in England in 1864, Grant youngest son.
Aug. 1984
From a collection of photographs and items from Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
From a collection of photographs and items from Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
First Book of Verse published by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, Hodder & Stoughton
belonging to Henry Mackinnon of Kirkapol
From a collection of photographs and items from Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
L-R George Griffiths, Mary MacPhail, unknown woman and child, Jenny Bell, Mary Gardner, Chrissie MacPhail
From a collection of photographs and items from Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
Alec MacPhail’s wife. Please leave a comment if you know the name
From a collection of photographs and items from Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
Mary Gardner, photographed at Kirkapol
From a collection of photographs and items from Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
Chrissie MacPhail, Kirkapol; Annie Bell, Neil MacPhail’s cousin; Mary Gardner, foster child of Neil and Chrissie MacPhail
From a collection of photographs and items from Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
Mary Gardner, George Griffiths
From a collection of photographs and items from Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
Rev Hector Mackinnon’s sons. One is Donald Norman
