In June 1955, the construction of a new reservoir was completed. This was in Upper Glendevon. Sacrificed in it’s making was Backhill’s hoose, a fairm toun that had provided a brief resting place, food and water for generations of drovers.
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Film credit: The hidden secrets of Glendevon by ScottishMountainGoat
Music credit: Lament by James Ross
Spoken words: Peter Scott-Gordon reading the words of Richard Bernard from the closing chapter of ‘Walking the Ochils and beyond’ [Clackmannan District Libraries, 1987]