In the early eighteen hundreds Duncan Campbell, son of James Campbell, moved from the Killin area of Breadalbane and settled in the gaelic speaking quarter on the northern edge of the Burgh of Doune in Perthshire. Duncan set up a business in Doune as a drystone dyker and well sinker. He married and in 1860 Duncan's son Hugh formed a business which embraced the new technology of wire fencing, which his father had introduced to Perthshire.
The use of wire fencing grew rapidly replacing the traditional but more labour intensive dyking. Large tracts of highland Perthshire were fenced in the last 50 years of the nineteenth century by Duncan Campbell, his son Hugh and his sons. The work was hard, the hours long and always associated with the use of working ponies and horses.
The use of wire fencing grew rapidly replacing the traditional but more labour intensive dyking. Large tracts of highland Perthshire were fenced in the last 50 years of the nineteenth century by Duncan Campbell, his son Hugh and his sons. The work was hard, the hours long and always associated with the use of working ponies and horses.
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