Transport
MV Graemsay, the current North Hoy ferry This is the Graemsay, the ferry which plies the Stromness-Graemsay-Moaness (North Hoy) route, pictur...
Longship in the Kirkwall Marina A fine selection of shipping in this picture taken yesterday by Marion.
The visting longship Gaia...
Eynhallow trip 2005, 1/4 Last night saw the Orkney Heritage Society's annual trip to Eynhallow. The departure from Tingwall w...
Eynhallow trip 2005, 4/4 Heading back for Tingwall, the light was spectacular. This was taken at approx 10.30pm. Eynhallow is...
Disused railway on Hoy Willie writes:
'When there was a gun post at Scad Head the road was so steep they built a cable r...
Bogie from Scad Head railway One of the remaining bogies from the wartime cable railway at Scad Head in Hoy
Looking down Junction Road c. 1925 Paul writes:
'An unknown cloche-hatted woman at the wheel of a Rover 8 in Junction Road, Kirkwall. ...
Garden's petrol pumps, Bridge Street. A Tom Kent picture from 1920, showing Robert Garden's Straker Squire car at his business's petrol pu...
Plane in Stenness Willie writes:
"This is a photo of my mother with Gander Dower's plane. She is on the far left. The...
Kirkwall Pier in the haze A very calm day, with a North Isles boat heading out, followed by a couple of creel boats. The Stats...
Shapinsay at Kirkwall Pier Marion writes:
'[This picture] shows the boat the Shapinsay and a lorry full of tangles. That's my...
Launch of the Otter A Tom Kent picture.
Launch of "Otter" in Kirkwall Basin, 19th May 1926. Subsequently bought and ...