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Russell Battrick

St Ola II St Ola, 1951 - 1975. Viewed from Hoy, on a summer's day in 1974.
German Submarines 1983 ... First German submarines to visit Orkney, since W.W.2
Winter, ... The way it was. Date estimated. Snow being cleared at the Lighthouse corner in Deerness.
Mad dogs and Kiwis. Date estimated. "Mad dogs and Kiwis", go out in a North Sea storm. Photo taken near the Brough, o...
What the Banks were all about. Re pic 2668 A selection of old pound notes, given to me when I was living in Orkney. Union Bank, dated, 1939. ...
Victoria St. Stromness. Date estimated. Postcard would have been bought in 1974 on my arrival in Orkney.
Kirkwall Harbour Date estimated. Postcard bought 1974, for sending to New Zealand.
Broad Street Date estimated. Post Card, would have been bought in the early 1970's.
Block Ship, Hoy Sound. Is this blockship still there? I cannot remember seeing it, on my last visit to Orkney, in 2004.
Orcadia Orcadia, anchored on the south side of Fair Isle. This was on a summer excursion in 1977. We left K...
Orcadia Crew ? Excursion to Fair Isle, 1977. Folk being ferried back to "Orcadia", for the return trip to Kirkwal...
Sunset over Scapa. Sunset, over Scapa. Taken from the Holm Road.

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