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Field of oats at Lower Grindally Field of oats at Lower Grindally, Birsay in the late summer of 1964. There were no combines in Birsa...
Linkshouse, Birsay Ref picture 28393, here is another photograph of Linkshouse, Birsay taken probably not long after it...
View of Earl's Palace from the Brough of Birsay View of Earl's Palace from the Brough of Birsay in 1966. The archaeological site was maintained by J...
Tom Kent photograph inside Kirbuster This is a Tom Kent photograph of the inside of the old house of Kirbuster in Birsay. Date unknown.
Isa and Bella Johnston from Gairsty Isa and Bella Johnston from Gairsty in the Northside of Birsay finely attired in the style of bygone...
Hot day in Birsay Birsay, 23rd July 2019, one of the warmest days I have experienced in Orkney
The Brough of Birsay Birsay, the Brough, 23rd July 2019
Costa del Birsay Birsay, 23rd July 2019. There were more than 50 people on the beach that day, one of the warmest I h...
Swona Harvest Home Mr Rosie in black. Son Albert 2nd from left and Eva Rosie. Eva married Alex Annal behind her who bec...
Click Mill, Birsay 2019 Click Mill, Birsay 2019
Inside the Click Mill. Birsay, 2019 Inside the Click Mill. Birsay, 2019. 100 years after Tom Kent photographed it.
Birsay Postman John H Comloquoy Birsay Postman John H Comloquoy (c.1930). He farmed at the Glebe and then later at Lower Grindally (...

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