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Kirkwall Post Office staff at the new PO in 1960 Kirkwall Post Office staff at the new PO in 1960. Back row from left: Stan Barnett, Mosh Marwick,...
Kirkwall Post Office staff 1944 My Dad (top row) had this photo, but elder sister Dora (third row right)added all the names from the...
MIxing grass seed at Flett and Sons James Flett & Sons (Orkney) Ltd. 1961 John Marr mixing grass seed upstairs. A stoory job.
S Baikie & Sons, Timber Merchants, Kirkwall S Baikie & Sons, Timber Merchants, Kirkwall. 1955. Jock Shearer; Geordie Rendall; Harry Peace; Be...
S Baikie & Sons, Timber Merchants S Baikie & Sons, Timber Merchants, Kirkwall. 1955. Jim Work – Yard foreman. Bessie Costie – H...
Salving the German Fleet My cousin Colin McKay sadly died recently and his son Gordon has given me and the Lifeboat Museum hi...
Salving the German Fleet My cousin Colin McKay sadly died recently and his son Gordon has given me and the Lifeboat Museum hi...
James Flett & Sons bakehouse Taken in James Flett & Sons bakehouse - possibly in the '60's. Does anyone recognise anybody?
Salving the Hindenburg A group of men involved in the salvage of the "Hindenburg" does anyone know any names?. Note how ma...
Flett and Sons baker John Lennie Flett & Sons 1960 John (Jake) Lennie, baker, at the bakehouse door.
OBs Back Yard Orkney Builders back yard 1994. The yellow cement silo lying on its side was once a feature of the ...
Blasting away a nobly named hill Puff of Smoke A blast initialising in Heddle Quarry, 2002. (The driver was not in the truck. He...

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