Don Calder ~ Clerk of Works, Skibo
Date Added: 24 April 2008
Year Range: 1930 - 1940
Institution Name: dnhhl
Cat No: ◀ | 2006_236 | ▶
Picture No: 2427
Monochrome photograph of Willie Calder's father, Don Calder, who was Clerk of Works to Andrew Carnegie. He passed down to his son, Willie Calder, some of the history of Skibo. Willie wrote "Calder's Skibo" in the 1950s.
Dimensions: Length 133mm - Width 82mm
2 Comments
This is my great-grandfather! I have never seen a photo of him before but knew right away because he is the spitting image of my father, also Donald Calder, b. 1916, Dornoch.
His grandfather was a cabinetmaker, carpenter, mason who, I understand from the historian at Skibo Castle and my Dad, headed up the carpentry of the renovation of Skibo Castle under Andrew Carnegie. He lived on the castle estate until his death. William, my father's uncle, was a historian who wrote, among other things, the history of the Skibo Castle. Comment left on 09 March 2009 at 18:57 by Jane (Calder) McElligott
His grandfather was a cabinetmaker, carpenter, mason who, I understand from the historian at Skibo Castle and my Dad, headed up the carpentry of the renovation of Skibo Castle under Andrew Carnegie. He lived on the castle estate until his death. William, my father's uncle, was a historian who wrote, among other things, the history of the Skibo Castle. Comment left on 09 March 2009 at 18:57 by Jane (Calder) McElligott
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Comment left on 07 October 2008 at 15:45 by Patricia Calder