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This gallery will have photography relating to the working areas of Aberdeenshire covering farming and forestry. Includes areas of forestry where there is public access for walks such as The Deeside Way and also photographs of forest harvesting, tree cutting, and stacked logs ready for transport to the local sawmills.
Green Granite Quarry qwe7752jhp Summer Hill Fare Green Quarry flooded pink trees overgrown bracken Deeside taken at The Green on the road up to this huge hill area standing north of Banchory and extending from Echt in the east to Torphins in the west and part of Dunecht Estates on Royal Deeside to the west of Aberdeen in Aberdeenshire. The pink granite from this quarry was used to build many of the late Victorian houses on the estate and in the nearby villages including the town of Banchory including our family house on Ramsay Road in 1904. Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Banchory, Raemoir, Hill, Fare, landscape, Upper, Deeside, Royal, countryside, rural, Nature, trees, common, forest, pine, summer, Estate, granite, pink, quarry, The Green, flooded, abandoned, overgrown, bracken
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Forestry & Farming
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Green Granite Quarry qwe7752jhp
Upload Date: 2012-08-20 12:45:09
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Summer Hill Fare Green Quarry flooded pink trees overgrown bracken

Deeside taken at The Green on the road up to this huge hill area standing north of Banchory and extending from Echt in the east to Torphins in the west and part of Dunecht Estates on Royal Deeside to the west of Aberdeen in Aberdeenshire. The pink granite from this quarry was used to build many of the late Victorian houses on the estate and in the nearby villages including the town of Banchory including our family house on Ramsay Road in 1904.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Banchory, Raemoir, Hill, Fare, landscape, Upper, Deeside, Royal, countryside, rural, Nature, trees, common, forest, pine, summer, Estate, granite, pink, quarry, The Green, flooded, abandoned, overgrown, bracken