Abergeldie Castle – could it be saved from the Dee?

£1,500 grants to all affected

Unless your bezzie’s have influence, then it is £100k.

And £3k for affected business. That means he’s got £104,500 to play with now. That should see him through.

I wonder what his thinking was in NOT doing some serious bank reinforcing work to save his home was then?

I don’t know the date of the first photo, the second is labelled as 1950 on the source web page – it does looks as if the bank was reinforced, at one time ; it would be interesting to see what it looked like, say, last summer.

(noted that the second image includes a copyright statement but it appears that the owners’ purpose in putting in on the web is to advertise the availability of framed prints and that linking to it here supports that and so is not objected to)

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Sorry, Pavlovian response. Same as whenever someone say Mcmanaman I always have to do the Mnah Mnah Do-do, do-do-do response bit.

it would be interesting to see what it looked like, say, last summer.

I paddled past a few months ago with LD of this forum. I didn’t take a pic – I was busy taking a pic of the canoe in the tree opposite…

Some video from Saturday showing the current work

That is a **** of stone/rubble

That is a metric **** load of stone/rubble

Ftfy

It still remains on the outside of the river bank, against the flow.

Any idea what the long term fix is anyone? That looks as if a spate or 2 and it’ll be as you were.

I would have thought they’d at least used gabion baskets to give it some structure.

A fair few bits of the Dee are gabioned, steel sheet re-enforced or mahoosive boulders.

It still remains on the outside of the river bank, against the flow.

in fairness, fixing that would cost a tad more than a £100,000 charitable donation… Need to call in these guys!

Fantastic footage. I wonder why drones are so immune to breezes and updrafts? What’s going on on the inside of the bend? It looks as if somebody is about to start excavating the material that’s been dumped as part of the normal erosion/deposition effect of a river, which would make more room for the water.

I’m glad somebody managed to find the funds for it, even though I think the castle will go down the river one day, whatever we do.

They’re taking rubble out of the river to give it more depth and reduce the impact on the new embankment

Okay that’s clear in the first few seconds.

interesting….now they need a load of liquid concrete pumped on top of the rocks.

A93 repairs

The fact is getting done so quickly has nothing to do with the fact that queenie has a holiday home next door I’m sure

I am sure she has a helipad there, she’ll manage somehow.

The fact is getting done so quickly has nothing to do with the fact that queenie has a holiday home next door I’m sure

I though the south side had stayed open anyway, so the A93 closure wouldn’t really have affected the Queen.

Invercauld Bridge re-opens today too.

I think the fact that it’s the A93 might have something to do with it!

I wonder if the old fella owns the land over the river too, he’ll probably get a suitable recompense for allowing them to build the new section of road too!

Pretty sure that the other side of the river is Invercauld Estate. They’re nice folks. When the F&M thing was in full flow they were one of the first to assure walkers and cyclists that the hills were still “open”.