Carole Shirreffs moved to Rhynie in Nov 2015, partly because of Rhynie’s connection to archaeology and wild cats.

“My dad, Robert Macknee, was born 1914 in Aberdeen.  His business in Aberdeen was DJ Campbell, originally sub-post office , and corsetry – his father’s business, which moved from Holborn junction to Holborn Street.  He sold tweeds and tartans and was the only franchise for Pringles at the time.  He was very well known by the ladies of Aberdeen!
He was related to William Wallace, family records going back to 1008.
My father passed away in April 1977.
This photograph was taken in 1934.  My dad, then aged 20, is second from the left on the back row.
I visited the same  location in Orkney (in the photograph) in 2006 and the landscape hadn’t changed at all.”