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Bridgend Of Glenlivet, Joiner's Workshop
Workshop (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Bridgend Of Glenlivet, Joiner's Workshop
Classification Workshop (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 85348
Site Number NJ13SE 22
NGR NJ 1964 3005
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/85348
- Council Moray
- Parish Inveravon
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Banffshire
In 1994, RCAHMS surveyed an early twentieth-century joinery workshop in Bridgend of Glenlivet. The building, a single-storeyed wooden structure with a corrugated iron roof, is situated near the village post office, and a timber store, built in similar fashion to the workshop, stands nearby.
Although no longer in use, the workshop is well stocked with machinery and tools from the first half of the twentieth century. These include a hand-driven band saw and a morticing machine, made in 1904 by Alex Mathieson of the Saracen Tool Works, Glasgow. The band saw was evidently purchased for seven shillings and six pence in 1904.
The workshop first appears on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map of Banffshire (1904) and two large items of machinery were also purchased in that year, strongly suggesting that that the workshop began operations in about 1904.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
