Orkney Image Library

St Clair's Emporium joiner shop For added safety make sure and wear the goggles like so, to avoid filings and splinters in your hair...

Egg Packing Station, 1/4 A Dougie Cooper picture, October 1964. Dougie worked at the egg packing station at the Ayre Mills. ...

Egg Packing Station, 2/4 A Dougie Cooper picture, July 1967. Eggs were clearly big business at the time. I only remember the ...

Egg Packing Station, 3/4 A Dougie Cooper picture, date estimated. Rae was right about the lorry in his comment on picture ...

Egg Packing Station, 4/4 A Dougie Cooper picture, October 1964. An ideal job for a keen, responsible, young person.

Piece time A Dougie Cooper picture, June 1967. The Egg Packing Station workers enjoy a break on a nice day.

Walliwall Quarry A Dougie Cooper picture, from 1965. There is a big hole to the west of Kirkwall, now full of wate...

Doon the pier A Dougie Cooper picture, October 1964. Any names of people or boat?

Halmatic 1974-75 Alan writes: 'I am sure many will have noticed the upside down boathouse at Finstown. It is a holid...

Kirkwall Moss Gatherers, July 1917 Women heading out to the country to pick sphagnum moss, used as wound dressings in both World Wars.

BT/GPO office demolition Wille writes: 'This is a pic of the old BT/GPO offices being knocked down. Kinda sad for me as I ha...

Ruby Smith at work in the Egg Packing Station A Dougie Cooper picture from January 1965.