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J&W Tait's grocery shop A Dougie Cooper picture. I'm fairly convinced that is Palace Road through the window.
Wm Shearer, Merchants The Victoria Street general store pictured last October, showing the pelmets mentioned in picture #1...
Wm Shearer, Merchants. October 2005. The former 'Shearer the Ironmongers' seems to have reinvented itself as 'Shearer-the-l...
Tankerness House A Dougie Cooper picture, September 1964. Tankerness House is looking a bit forlorn and in need of re...
Tankerness House, from Cathedral spire A Dougie Cooper picture, from 1966. Tankerness House looks even more exposed to the elements in this...
Ba at Tankerness House A Dougie Cooper picture, date estimated. Tankerness House has been renovated in this picture. I unde...
Quoybanks from a kite The latest picture from Craig's excellent 'from a kite' series. Still can't see my house Craig... al...
A very busy Albert Street Craig writes: 'Two pictures from an old magazine from around 40 years ago, showing a very busy Albe...
Kirkwall Basin Scanned from a magazine from about 40 years ago. Taken from the Kirkwall Hotel, by the look of it. T...
Papdale Primary School, 2 Sweyn Alsion writes: 'Back Row (l - r): Christopher Rosie, Michael Cochrane, Mark Louttit, Jimmy Thomson,...
View from Cathedral The view has changed significantly even since April 2002, with the Phoenix gone and buildings up in ...
View from the Cathedral, looking west thumb #1235 shows how much things have changed since 1910, and even later in 2002, as shown in pictu...

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