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Ian Hourston

Mystery ships 2009. Mystery ships. There are three ships in this rather jumbled photo. A night out with me to t...
Sovereign Picture taken today. With reference to photo #23729, this shows the relative diameters of a modern ...
Mystery Stein Picture taken a couple of days ago. Object approaching 70 yrs old. The same German stein as in pho...
Mystery thing Mystery thing. Picture taken today, object dates from 1940s. I'm not posting this as a puzzle; I k...
Bottom of the Prien Stien Picture taken today. Object 60-odd years old? This shows the bottom of the Gunther Prien commemora...
LIfe-boat badges Picture taken today. These badges (or brooches)were worn by a relative 60-odd years ago. No doubt ...
Start Point Lighthouse from the West Same place as picture #23806, Tommy, but from the landlubbers' side and a decade earlier (Aug 2000).
Local Defence Volunteers Tern again Whittington? An American visitor gets a surprise at Skipi (Skiba) Geo, a few years ago. ...
Stromness Academy crests Picture taken today. Objects probably date from 1930s. On the right is the only image I have of ...
Spirit of Adventure, 2009 Spirit of Adventure, 2009. With reference to picture #23853, here is the vessel concerned at Hatsto...
Moray House exam paper Picture taken today. Object dated 1917. In connection with picture #23768, here is a Moray House e...
Royal barge from the past in a museum Photo taken Sep 2000. Royal Barge, seen in picture #23901, on display 40 years later at HMY Britann...

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Old coastguard slipway, StronsayTrumland House after the fire in 1985Small turret in the Earl’s Palace gardensA strangely low rainbow over StennessGolta Z Battery, Flotta.Limeade from R.Garden's lemonade factoryJarvie Family 1920The Haven, BrimsFrom the Longhope Lifeboat Museum'The Cats', Balaclava Road, Flotta