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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 16h

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

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 16d

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

Meldrum Heritage @meldrumheritage.bsky.social · 16d

Good to see Lethenty Mill, near Inverurie, being renovated. This old water-driven meal mill was more recently a country furniture making workshop before a major fire a few years ago.

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Meldrum Heritage @meldrumheritage.bsky.social · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

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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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 22d

Maybe time to start playing them again!

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 22d

My vinyls are all with 18 yr old son now - but near to hand!

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 22d

Found my copy!

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 22d

I’m sure I bought the Kilimanjaro Album and ‘Reward’ wasn’t on it

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Meldrum Heritage @meldrumheritage.bsky.social · 22d

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 · Sep 26

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 · Sep 21

How can an manager think that Yengi or Jensen can play football. Baffling.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · Sep 21

1616 was a tough food year for Aberdeen. Lamb banned, and council minutes also say the white fishers of Fittie were at war with the salmon men. Supper was a dangerous business!

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · Sep 13

Hope you’ll be sporting that in Section Y at 3pm today!

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · Aug 31

Couldn’t see from here in Y, but ref is shocking

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · Aug 28

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 · Aug 23

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 [email protected]
#palaeography #Orkney

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · Aug 20

Good luck, I finished an MLitt in 2023 (3 yrs p/t) in the dep of history, philosophy and arts. I retire end of year - and wondering whats next. Phd maybe.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · Aug 20

Whats a certificate student - a short course?

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · Aug 17

20 years later on the anniversary (6 Nov), I spent the afternoon in the Irishman Pub in Stavanger with Davie Robb. Noticed him
him next to me at the bar and said hello - reminded him of the date - we ended up drinking a couple of bottles of (the cheapest) bubbly stuff - cost us a fortune though.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · Aug 15

Jimmies!

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Old Weird Scotland @weirdscotland.bsky.social · Aug 12

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

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 ...

forms.gle

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · Aug 11

Was that the same or similar to bursaries?

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · Aug 10

Today in 1628 the Vasa, the latest, most powerful and advanced ship in the Swedish navy set off on its maiden voyage.
After travelling about 1,300m it capsized and sank.
It was raised after 333 years on the seabed.
Today @thevasamuseum is one of my favourite places in the world.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · Aug 10

I’d put Polvara up front before that lump - Y has 2 left peggers.

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