Left to right: University of Stirling archivist Karl Magee, Ron Aitchison, and chief executive of Aberlour Children’s Charity, SallyAnn Kelly
Ron Aitchison, who spent his childhood in the care of Aberlour orphanage in the 1950s and 1960s, welcomed the new catalogue created by the University of Stirling by donating a number of his own items to the collection.
The archive is the result of a year-long project led by a team of university experts, who restored, preserved and recorded hundreds of historic documents from Aberlour, including administrative records, case files, annual reports, photographs and issues of the charity’s magazine.
Now fully searchable and open to those who have personal or family connections to Aberlour and to researchers, the archive provides a detailed record of the organisation’s work caring for children across Scotland since the establishment of its first orphanage in 1875.