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Ken McHardy Sen.

Ken is the great nephew of PM Jimmy McHardy and has a wealth of knowledge and memories of Strathdon and the surrounding areas. His son, Andrew has set up a superb website on the McHardy clan (see link below) with many of his father's reminiscences recorded there.
Corgarff Castle Before restoration.
Prospect Hill Cottage, Whitehouse This was the home of PM Jimmy McHardy, wife Isabella (nee Shearer of Orkney), son James, and daughte...
Prospect Hill Cottage, Whitehouse Viewed from the farm track next to the stables. Home of the McHardy family at the time when Jimmy Mc...
Dairy Cottage, Whitehouse Photograph taken July 1925 probably by Edith McHardy.
Prospect Hill Cottage, Whitehouse Fairly deep snow at this reasonably exposed location. Who took these photographs, Edith or the young...
"Bikers" at Prospect Hill Cottage Two rather nice machines parked at the side of Prospect Hill Cottage, with Cairn William in the back...
Picnic at Whitehouse Rocks Edith McHardy and (possibly) John Paterson. Photograph taken at Whitehouse crags June 1930. Edith, w...
Capers at Luath's Stone, Whitehouse I don't recommend this these days. This group, enjoying a rest at Luath's Stone above Whitehouse, co...
Lower Drumlassie, Tornaveen The farm that PM Jimmy McHardy rented for a short while after a "difference" with the laird at White...

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