Our History — Munro Sawmills Ltd

Established in 1890

Munro Sawmills - part of a family business based in Dingwall in the Highlands of Scotland

Our great-great-great-grandmother Elsie Smith started a timber supplies business in Scotland in 1890 and today the main family business, Munro Sawmills from Dingwall, is one of the UK's largest producers of wooden fencing panel components.

A copy of the memoirs of Duncan Munro Can be downloaded here.

Elsie (Copy)

Andrew Munro 1840-1900 (Copy)

Elsie Munro 1857-1938 (Copy)

Possibly Balvraid Sawmill 1892. (Copy)

Balvraid Sawmill 1892. First sawmill owned by Andrew Munro. Andrew is seen, hands on hips, wearing white shirt, by building. (Copy)

Dingwall carridge mill around 1980 (Copy)

Dingwall Carridge mill line (Copy)

Shipbuilding timber provided by Munro Sawmills (Copy)

Duncan Munro with some keel timber (Copy)

Skyline and delimber operations (Copy)

Skidder used for harvesting operations now run by Munro Harvesting ltd (Copy)

Harvesting operations Glen Elg 1980s (Copy)

Skyline Harvesting equipment (Copy)

Harvesting timber lorry (Copy)

JGD MUnro Sawmills Harvesting lorry (Copy)

Balvraid House near Dornoch (Copy)

8x8 logs for fishing boats (Copy)

Bert navigating the famous Bealach na Ba at Applecross (Copy)

World war 2 crane repurposed for Timber Harvesting (Copy)

Dingwall Site in the 1980s before the move to fencing products (Copy)

Slabs ready to leave the yard (Copy)

New skidder ready for use in the woods (Copy)

Duncan Munro and Bert Inkster (Copy)

A small section of pipe to build a bridge near Gairloch (Copy)

Bridge buoilding on the river Kerry near Gairloch (Copy)

Skyline for harvesting operations 1980's (Copy)

Skyline ready for work at the Dingwall site 1980's (Copy)

Original building Dingwall site where the current office is now (Copy)

Steam Mill likely Balvraid Sawmill (Copy)

Pit props supplied by Munro Sawmills for mining (Copy)

Steven Fleming Sawmill foreman operating large wood carridge mill (Copy)

Calum Campbell engineer with repurposed WW2 crane for harvesting works (Copy)

Instalation of new treatment plant (Copy)

WoodBlocX merchandising stands created mid to late 90's featuring Raymond Grant sawmill engineer (Copy)

Manually felling large douglas fir at Castle Leod Strathpeffer (Copy)

Slat production comences around 1999 (Copy)

Slat mill up and running early 2000's (Copy)