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Agriculture and Fishing

We've been Fishing This is the gang after a fishing trip out on "Welcome Home" from Stromness. We spent the day off Yes...
Kirbuster Museum Bed I bet those beds were really cosy!
Kirbuster Farm Museum Visiting the museum brought back childhood memories of visiting our old croft on flotta.
Kirbuster Farm Museum peat fire What a lovely smell. I brought a bag of peat home with me and will treat myself now and then to that...
Herring Fleet - Stromness Harbour Again a guess at the date
Raft Race - Stromness Harbour Guessing at the year - rafts look to be made of herring barrels
Big Fish From STROMNESS - Official Guide Book. Published by Stromness Town Council.
Load of stuff for Shapinsay G Robertson & Son Scania tipper,loading onto M.V Shapinsay onward to Shapinsay with a load of farm ...
Eday harvest Barley (?) bales. And not a black plastic cover in sight.
Dipping day in Auskerry L toR on the pier W Chalmers, a lighthouse keeper, Robert Shearer, Jackie Chalmers ,Edward Bews and ...
Peat cutting The year is only a guess. Don't know the names of this group but I know a man who does, maybe with ...

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Old coastguard slipway, StronsayTrumland House after the fire in 1985Small turret in the Earl’s Palace gardensA strangely low rainbow over StennessGolta Z Battery, Flotta.Limeade from R.Garden's lemonade factoryJarvie Family 1920The Haven, BrimsFrom the Longhope Lifeboat Museum'The Cats', Balaclava Road, Flotta