Winner of the Best Scottish Heritage Media Archive award 2020 Blog

Best Scottish Heritage Media Archive Award 2020 Our Scottish heritage film archive has been awarded the Best Scottish Heritage Media Archive 2020. We have recorded and digitally archived more than 500 hours of unique Scottish heritage footage. The unique Scottish heritage film  captures aspects of life and work of a past Scotland from the late […]

Some clips from our unique 500 hoors o archive film aboot the Scotland’s heritage can be seen on our You Tube channel

Scottish heritage story telling,Scotlands past

This Blog is produced in Doric first and then below that it is produced in English for effective Scottish heritage story telling Oor past ancestors y o life n wurk  A lot o us injoy gaain t the places that hae exhibits aboot oor past y o life n wurk. This represents Scottish heritage story […]

Horseman’s memories poem

Well fit like the day its Dr Doric again we a blether aboot oor past. As a heritage film maker, I have seen and filmed an affa lot o interesting things aboot oor Scottish past. Een o the maist interestin features I hiv filmed is the work o the Clydesdale horse as deen here in […]

Spring seed saain on Aiberdeenshire fairms then and noo.

Introduction Well fit like its Don Carney again wee anither blether aboot oor past Scottish heritage deen in the Doric o Aiberdeenshire the aria far I wis broucht up n still bide in the day. The blether the day is aboot the spring saain o the grain crap on Aiberdeenshire fairms lookin at the changes […]

The Clydesdale horse and its influence on the economy

Scottish agriculture, Clydesdale hors power, past Scottish Heritage on Film,

The qualities of the Clydesdale horse are many. It has a gentle, it is powerful, it is obedient, it is quiet, it is elegant, it is bonny to look at, it has a great structure, its walk, canter, trot and gallop are amazing, it embraces partnership with its handlers and it is highly intelligent. Yet […]

Sorting the nowt in the byre 1940s style

Cow looking at camera from her stall in the byre

The farming year is always the same. A time for ploughing, planting and harvesting. Through all that work is the need to look after animals on the farm. I was brought up on a mixed farm called Drumnaheath beside Kintore in Aberdeenshire. We had pigs’ hens, turkeys for Xmas selling, sheep and cattle. The cattle […]

The ordinary persons story of Scottish life from 1890 to 1960

Scottish Heritage Family History Large

My interest in my ancestors unknown to me started when I was a school child some 60 years ago. As the son of a farmer in Aberdeenshire in Scotland I was very much part of the farm work force, even after I left home and started to work in my own career. Background As the youngest […]

The Meal and Ale the 1940s disco night for rural Aberdeenshire folk

A concert in the farm barn

The Meal and Ale the 1940s disco night for rural Aberdeenshire folk The harvest celebration Up to the late 1940s the celebration of the hairst being finished was celebrated in each district of Aberdeenshire with an evening eating drinking dancing and listening to local talent doing their party piece. Nothing different about that you might […]