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Kinlore History
Four generations of keepers, from the orchard press to the reading room.
1920s – 1940s
The orchard years
Margaret's parents plant the orchard rows and press the first cider. Births, pickings, and weddings are entered in harvest books that still anchor our earliest dates.
1950s – 1970s
Harbour and lighthouse
Robert builds boats while Brooklyn tends the point light for forty-one years. Harbour logbooks and weather diaries join the growing family shelf.
1980s – 2000s
Jenny writes it down
Jenny Frances Kinlore turns scattered boxes into proper ring binders — letters, clippings, parish notes — the foundation the whole archive stands on.
2010s – today
The living archive
Daniel photographs fifteen years of reunions, Alice records the living voices, and Thomas opens the digitisation desk. Two thousand verified profiles — and cousins still adding pages.