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An old Birsay bed 2010 An old Birsay bed A good example of a neuk bed. Even with straw or heather for a bed sack t...
Another view of Jewson's Junction Road sawmill 1990 Another view of Jewsons Junction Road sawmill.
Going metric at the woodyard 1970 A display board at the woodyard designed to help the Builders of the day get to grips with the ...
Building the Brough of Birsay lighthouse 1925 Men working on the building of the lighthouse on the Brough of Birsay. ...
St Magnus Kirkyard Birsay 2010 Snowbound ancestors at St Magnus Kirk Birsay
Battery on the Birsay Links The Battery on the Birsay Links taken about 1900 and before the lighthouse was built on the Brough. ...
Mystery stack 2011 Geography test. An Orkney sea stack but where?
Drying a kiln of grain at the Barony Mills Drying a kiln of grain at the Barony Mills Birsay.
Bere harvest 2011 A reasonable harvest of bere again awaiting drying at Barony Mills Birsay.
Kirkwall Burgh School teachers. 1911 Date is a guess. Back row. Miss Macdonald (Mrs Buchanan), Mr Moir, Miss Hewison, ? , Miss Mary Kirk...
On the roof of the Kitchener Memorial Masons finishing the screed on the roof of the Kitchener Memorial Birsay. [How did they get up t...

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