Old Photos with 'Bothy Ballad' from Past Farming Days, Scotland's North East

Photo montage of the old style of Scottish farming. These are family photos from our own collection taken in the counties of Fife & Angus and spanning probably about the half century from the earlyish 1900's to the mid 1950's. In the later photos, I personally remember some of the animals and events (such as repairing the haystacks after the great gale of (?) 1957). I also recognise & knew many of the people from the later era photos, who are mostly close relatives . In this era, the horse was king (or queen!) and provided the energy to power most of our important agricultural processes. Even in these few fading photographs, the strong bond of mutual affection and respect between man and beast will be immediately obvious.... The bothy ballad comes from Aberdeenshire, a bit to the north of where the photos belong, but I don't believe the way of farming life in those days would differ much.

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• Angus
• Fife
• Aberdeen
• Scottish Heritage
• Agricultural History
• Farming in times gone by

[thomson753089]

hey there any one familiar with caskieberran farm? it was a farm in whats now glenrothes and got dimolished in 1958 any one know were i could get some info or pictures of old farms in fife but specificaly in whats now glenrothes?

[MrWhanlon]

Thank you for posting this bothy ballad and photos they brings back great memories of the old ploughmen and orra men who worked the land when my dad was building and repairing dry stane dykes on farms around the Forfar area fifty eight years ago,

Another great accompanyment to these photos would be Violet Jacobs poem Halloween, put to music and sung by the late Dundee folk singer Jim Reid.

Thanks again and if you have any more like this please post them

Regards

BillH

[owtatowttowt]

love it. my ganda was born & brought up on a croft in Aiberdeenshire.

[cookingupastory]

Beautiful - music, photos, sense of a time long past. Thanks for putting this together and sharing here!

[BillDFC]

Bra Loons fae ferm toons!

[raymondcrooke]

Excellent video. Thanks for sending it.