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101st H.A.A. Regiment Royal Artillery This picture is a group of nine men from the 226 Battery of the 101st H.A.A.Regiment Royal Artillery...
Present Hoy Head Ferry See picture #1157 for old ferry in 1975.
Cliffs south of Bay of Skaill Taken in September.
Mystery group? Contributor? Caption?
Workers at Lyness Naval Base left back row-?Jock Graham-??-??-??-??-Danny Barnet-Wilson Nicholson-??-??Jimmy Wilson-??-?? Along ...
Coastguards and Lifeboat Crew on Hoy I think this was a doo; to say goodbye to Commander Erol Bruce before he left Lyness Naval Base; ple...
The Heather Linties This was group started by Lady Skrene also the Rev Kenwood Bryant was involved but long before my ti...
Amber Queen This was a boat brought to Longhope by Jock Smith she had been sunk in the Thurso river and was in a...
Grandad plooan, at the Burnhouse Longhope This was my grand father wae the ploo it was taken by a minister here at the time. James Thomson was...
Lighthouse tender, May, ashore on Rysa Little Not a very good photo but does show the ship is hard ashore. I might be wrong with the date but you...
Green Castle Ashore near Rackwick This photo was taken by Barry Jones and shows the Stromness and Longhope Lifeboats trying to pull th...
Lifeboat flotilla The arrival of the new Longhope lifeboat.

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