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Hoy and Walls

Willie Groat and me Me pictured with the legendary Willie Groat at his croft on Hoy
Flett family crest This is the Flett crest featured in a stained glass window in Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall.
Old Timer. MFV LETITIA, Possibly owned by the late John Smith of LONGHOPE for a time. The date is a guess. A...
Tug work Bailing out before the storm. The wind that followed was severe and put construction back by a consi...
Escapades of the BARNEATH. BARNEATH as she was in the early days,She spent some time on HMS VANGUARD before she turned her at...
The end BARNEATH. the end is near, She was towed away to the breakers in the early seveties. By that time s...
Peat Cutting Hoy This is a Valentines Series post card of peat cutting in Hoy.The date is estimated
The Manchester City The Manchester City was disabled in the Pentland Firth having broken her rudder in storm conditions....
South Walls School Here is another school horror photo. Can some of the pupils who are still of sound mind name the fac...
Anna Salen On the 13th of August 1952 the Swedish ship Anna Salen was in collision with a Norwegian Whale Facto...

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