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Cutting barley for crimping Cutting barley for crimping at Queena birsay for Mervin Spence, Ingsay in background. 2006
Restored whalebone at Birsay The Whale bone near Birsay in front of the beautiful sea. A windy but sunny evening at 6:30 p.m. in ...
Lighthouse on the Brough of Birsay being built This is a postcard of the lighthouse on the Brough of Birsay being built. The writing on the back s...
Brough of Birsay lighthouse Another postcard of the Brough of Birsay lighthouse built in 1925 by David Stevenson
Mystery ship This one is for them in the know, Longhope or Stromness men. I have no idea of the date the photo wa...
Building the Brough of Birsay lighthouse 1925 Men working on the building of the lighthouse on the Brough of Birsay. ...
St Magnus Kirkyard Birsay 2010 Snowbound ancestors at St Magnus Kirk Birsay
Battery on the Birsay Links The Battery on the Birsay Links taken about 1900 and before the lighthouse was built on the Brough. ...
Alex Moar Alex Moar, eldest son of Jacob and Catherine Moar who feature in picture #15496, picture #15501, and...
Mystery stack 2011 Geography test. An Orkney sea stack but where?
Logo on a broken plate from the flow Logo on a broken plate from the flow , can anyone identify it ?
Mystery group at Covenanters' Memorial Mystery group at Covenanters' Memorial ca 1926. Any offers? It's odd that the text on the plaque c...

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