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Alex Bruce

Flood on Junction Road The Back Road flooded, date estimated. Paul Sutherland will remember when it was though...
Gathering in front of the cathedral Date unknown, as is the occasion. I've put 1910 as a guess on the basis of no War Memorial.
St Mary's village Holm Village in 1914. Largely unchanged today except for the demolition of the two storey building n...
Street sceen, Stromness Alex writes: 'This is a postcard sent from stromness to Leith in august 1909'. The old Commercial H...
Harvesting at Noltland Westray A postcard sent on July 1st 1907
Cromwells Fort, Kirkwall Situated at the point where Weyland Road becomes Cromwell Road (or Young Street as it was known unti...
Kirkwall Moss Gatherers, July 1917 Women heading out to the country to pick sphagnum moss, used as wound dressings in both World Wars.
Bishop's Tower from E. Kirkwall The Moosie Too'er of the Bishop's Palace, viewed from up Palace Road a bit. Note the Watergate has m...

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