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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've changed my mind about the new BNA newspaper archive system now I'm getting better search results. Found an 1881 report of a fire here that destroyed the machinery helping me date the machinery we still have. There are still burn marks on some of the beams, though fires were common in mills.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Picked up this old waterwheel, complete with crank & connecting rod, at a second-hand yard recently. Very similar to this one in the National Museum in Edinburgh, where the same crank-connecting rod arrangement converts the wheel’s rotation into the reciprocating motion for a pump. #waterwheels

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Murray Pittock : @murrayp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Looking forward to giving this delayed #Freedom250 lecture in US Consulate General tomorrow. It's a good time to dwell on the roots of the term 'Common Sense'. @sahavoice.bsky.social @uofgnews.bsky.social @ahallardyce.bsky.social @asls.org.uk

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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Happy birthday to Robert Fergusson, born #OTD in 1750. A fearless satirist and poetic innovator in Scots language and tradition, he is one of the most erudite and influential Scottish writers. Watch this space for my new edition of his works, out with Edinburgh University Press in February!

Bronze sculpture of Robert Fergusson by David Annand, outside Edinburgh's Canongate Kirkyard. He is looking up and out with a book in his hand.

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Doric Studio @doricstudio.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One week today it’s the return of North East Open Studios We are opening our doors for you to visit, ask us stuff, have a nosey, buy some of our awesome things and get a look at screen printing up close! Saturday 12th September 10-5pm Sunday 13th September 10-5pm

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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Please get in touch with us if you have any queries about this upcoming event: womenshistoryscotland.org/contact-us/ For details about the venue, including accessibility queries: www.culturepk.org.uk/library/ak-b...

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Visit to Edinburgh today - first to National Records 📃 , then Sandy Bells 🍺 🎶 , then son’s new student flat

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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

It feels strange to say that I’ve submitted the Collected Works of Robert Fergusson to @edinburghup.bsky.social… feeling equally relieved and bereft! But delighted that the edition is on its way in early 2027. Thanks to @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for being a brilliant RA and all who supported ❤️

Bronze sculpture of poet Robert Fergusson outside Edinburgh’s Canongate Kirk.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My tenuous link to John Maclean: his daughter married Ellice Milton, the brother of my stepmother’s mother, Meg Milton. Meg told me how, at the start of the war, she brought her friend and workmate Nan home to meet the family in Elgin.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I’ve got something like this in my quarry - a war trophy given to Oldmeldrum and dumped in 1920. Next year for retrieval! 🤞 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Bury St Edmunds museum saves WW1 howitzer gun from scrapyard

The war relic, pushed into a river by a disgruntled veteran a century ago, is due to be restored.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Visiting the NLS archives in Edinburgh today, having travelled from Oldmeldrum to consult an item only to discover that the “item” is actually just a listing of the manuscripts. And where are the manuscripts themselves held? Oldmeldrum. 🤦‍♂️

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Serendipitous find of the day! A 3 ft waterwheel, almost exactly a quarter-scale replica of my own 12 ft mill wheel. Too good to leave behind. Next project, refurbishing it and installing it in the burn alongside the old mill stream. Watch this space… #waterwheels

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Saline Hill earlier this evening - from MiLs kitchen window

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Highlight of my week in retirement - Friday coffee and sandwich at the #MeldrumCafe !

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Anyone know anything about this sketch-ad which is in ‘Painting the Town’ by Patricia Dennison et al but the reference only says advertisement for Aberdeen Assurance Company' and no word of where it was found or other info.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Trying to decipher a profession in 1864 Scottish death register. Col 2, row 3 reads “_____ carpenter”. The same word appears in column 6 for his father’s occupation. I know from other sources he was a millwright, but it doesn’t clearly look like millwright. Any palaeography experts have suggestions?

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Awards for IASSL members: @murrayp.bsky.social (@glasgow.ac.uk) has been awarded the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow’s Glasgow Medal and the honorary degree of D.Litt. from @robertgordonuni.bsky.social in Aberdeen. Photo: Prof. Pat Monaghan presents the Glasgow Medal

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Meldrum Heritage @meldrumheritage.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We’re pleased to publish the 1st in our new online heritage series. This article explores Lt-Col Alexander Seton of Mounie and the 1852 sinking of HMS Birkenhead - origin of “Women and Children First”. Written by MBHS committee member Deborah A. O’Neil OBE, FRSE meldrumheritage.org/alexande-set...

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Alexander Seton - Women and Children First - Meldrum & Bourtie Heritage Society

To take your chance in the thick of a rush, with firing all about, Is nothing so bad when you've cover to 'and, an' leave an' likin' to shout; But to stand an' be still to the Birken'ead drill is a da...

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Here’s another 'Coolman' Antarctic carpenter. My uncle, Allan Green (centre), a BAS carpenter during rebuilds at Signy mid-1960s. He also worked on Deception Island, and was in the Falklands with BAS when the hijacked Aerolíneas Argentinas aircraft landed during Operation Condor in 1966 @bas.ac.uk

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Prague booked! Just need a couple of match tickets now! #COYR 🇦🇹 ⚽️

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Glad to see the old mill at Lethenty being saved. Located between Meldrum Inverurie.

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Meldrum Heritage @meldrumheritage.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Calling heritage and local history societies! What platforms do you use to share your digital collections & photo archives online? Our society's old system is now defunct, so we’re looking for a good replacement. Any recommendations appreciated! #DigitalHeritage #DigitalPreservation

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Meldrum Heritage @meldrumheritage.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The picture shows the Meldrum Volunteers lined up to greet Queen Victoria as she passed through Oldmeldrum. So, while the Queen journeyed through Meldrum, a grandson of Mounie was commanding forces in one of the defining conflicts of British Empire

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Meldrum Heritage @meldrumheritage.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

On this day, 14 Oct 1857 - Queen Victoria passed through Oldmeldrum to visit the Earl of Aberdeen as British troops were fighting in India during the 'Siege & Relief of Lucknow', led by Gen Sir James Outram, whose grandfather Dr James Anderson married the heiress of Mounie Castle, outside Oldmeldrum

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Meldrum Heritage @meldrumheritage.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Meldrum & Bourtie Heritage is back! New and revamped website launching soon, archive work under way, and new stories from our photo collection coming to light. More very soon - looking forward to sharing what’s next! #Heritage #Oldmeldrum #ScottishHistory #Bourtie

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

So, I noticed a new evolution in the way comics are displayed in book stores today. I found a shop that placed comics in the comics section, but also on a single shelf at the end of each genre section. So if you are browsing fantasy, the books beyond Z are all fantasy comics.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

A new carbuncle to replace the old carbuncle which replaced Archibald Simpson’s 19thC original? #AberdeenMarket

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Volunteers are welcome to join the project to help in the transcription! All volunteers will be named as co-editors, whether you contribute a line or multiple pages. For more info, contact the project lead, Aaron Allen, on administrator@kirkwalltailorsproject.co.uk #palaeography #Orkney

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Old Weird Scotland @weirdscotland.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

It's "help an undergraduate research project time"! Siân is researching how well Scottish people and Scots speakers are understood. Listen to some audio clips and see how well you fare. Took me less than 10mins and it was very fun! forms.gle/wUJBQquieSt2... #OldWeirdScotland

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Language understanding study

This research project is being undertaken as part of an undergraduate degree in the School of Arts, Culture and Language at Bangor University. The focus of the study is to research the understanding ...

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Privileges to work on and salvage from the Vasa were granted to Colonel Alexander Forbes from Aberdeenshire in 1652 - later sold to his business partner Hans Albrekt von Trieileben in 1663 who had been the first to use diving bells at depth

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Solving the mystery of 'the old Inverurie fiddle' and its origins. Who made it? And why? How my research uncovered a story of community life and personal tragedy in nineteenth century north east Scotland. See and hear the lightly restored fiddle in my article here: monsgraupius.org/inverurie-pl...

Image of the old Inverurie fiddle researched and played by Dr Sally Garden.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Son is off to Edinburgh in Sep to study Geology/Geophysics. He’s trying escape me boring him with S. Enlightenment era stuff!

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Roasting here 🥵 Its not that often I can sit outside and read the quarterly Mill News!

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Anyone know if Cumberland’s army billeted at Cullen en route to Culloden? @maggiecraig.bsky.social

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Our Meldrum & Bourtie Heritage Society photo displat today at #OldmeldrumSports. Noisy, set up next to the wrestling show!

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Scottish Council on Archives @scotsarchives.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Join us this Thursday for the next Community Stories - Community Archives skills session: Preservation for Community Archives! Thank you to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for making these sessions possible. Book your space via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preservati...

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Preservation for Community Archives

Learn more about caring for the items in your archive collections

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

So I think I need to do a sober thread on just how disasterously bad the new trove.scot website is, in comparison to the sites - especially Canmore - that it's replacing. tl:dr - the new site is not fit for purpose; switching off the old sites on 24 June 2025 is way way way premature.

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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

17 May is Norwegian Constitution Day. The Tog, 2025, through Kirkwall to St Magnus Cathedral was led by Kirkwall City Pipe Band. #Orkney #Norway youtu.be/QcNQVGZ1hQA?...

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Orkney Celebrates the Independence of Norway

YouTube video by The Orkney News

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Meldrum are Aberdeenshire Schools cup winners, beating Kemnay 3-2 today. Son was Meldrum CB, and has last ever day at school tomorrow.

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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Looking forward to seeing Aberdeen friends next week to talk about editing the works of Robert Fergusson. Did you know... Fergusson is most often associated with Edinburgh - his beloved 'Auld Reikie' - but his family originated in Aberdeenshire. Will be good to be in the Fergusson homeland!

Portrait of poet Robert Fergusson (1750-74) by Alexander Runciman. The background is very dark. Fergusson's face is pale, his eyes large, brown and piercing and his expression serious; he looks towards his right. He has brown curls above his half-visible left ear.

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