Gallery: From school trips to bulb-planting season – Drum Castle through the years
Have you taken a trip to Drum Castle over the years? See if you can spot yourself in our gallery of pictures which cover 1979-1992.
Head gardener Diana Morrison with her young bulbplanting assistants, from left, Susanne Anderson, 7, David Cumming, 5, Mhairi Shanks, 2, Tom Cumming, 3, and Niall Shanks, 5.
Have you taken a trip to Drum Castle over the years?
Perhaps you were taken on a school trip as a child, or maybe you took part in bulb-planting season.
Whatever the reason for your visit, we’re sure walks through the castle’s ground have been filled with warm memories – even if the weather wasn’t so good.
See if you can spot yourself in our gallery of pictures which cover from 1979-1992.
1979 – Enjoying the beauties of Drum despite a spring shower are Teresa McCombie, left, and Wendy Ashwell.
1979 – Northfield Academy headmaster Ian McDowall chats to pupils against the background of the historic tower of Drum.
1983 – Junior soldiers from the Bridge of Don Barracks swing into action on the adventure playground they built at Drum Castle.
1983 – Cutting the tape to officially open the new adventure playground at Drum Castle is factor’s wife Olivia Hunter.
1986 – Three members of the Histrionix Drama Group, Jim Waugh, left, Bev Nicholson and Charles McKerron were presenting a play.
1987 – Head gardener at Drum, Graham Waters, and trainee gardener Roddy Beagrie at work in the castle grounds.
1987 – Aberdeen-born Cath Thomas brought her family from Wolverhampton to visit her native north-east and Drum Castle. Cath’s daughter Wendy and her husband Chris are pictured with their daughter Laura.
1988 – The courtyard of Drum Castle was filled with the sound of music when the Rommen and Fossum School band from Oslo played to pensioners from Glaxo of Montrose.
1988 – All ready for a bulb-planting session at Drum Castle are eight-year-olds Nicola Munro, from Drumoak, and Ian Hartley, from Newtonhill.
1989 – Diana Morrison cuts the first turf in the old walled garden where a rose garden was to be constructed.
1989 – George Ross of the Auchmacoy Shop, near Ellon, demonstrates machine knitting as Judy Baxter, left, of Banchory, and Joanne Clouston, of Culter, look on.
1990 – Planting bulbs at Drum Castle were these members of the Crathes Young Naturalists. From left, Calum Leith, seven, of Glassel, Fiona McDonald, 12, Westhill, Melanie Costello, 10, Catterline and Dawn Bagnall, 11, Catterline.
1991 – Head gardener Diana Morrison with her young bulbplanting assistants, from left, Susanne Anderson, 7, David Cumming, 5, Mhairi Shanks, 2, Tom Cumming, 3, and Niall Shanks, 5.
1992 – Caretaker cleaner Margaret Maxwell uses a bit of elbow grease to get the brass shining in the Drum Castle kitchen.
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Gallery: From school trips to bulb-planting season – Drum Castle through the years
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