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Paterson Kirk's stained-glass windows In connection with picture #25826 etc, here's a composite image, made from slides shot in 1993, of s...
Girl Wilma at North Pier Girl Wilma & unreadable (?? Alaska) alongside North Pier, Stromness. From a slide of about 1960, tak...
St Peter's Kirk, Skaill While St Peter's Kirk, Skaill, is 'trending now' I'll add my offering to the collection-plate. The B...
Tourer & tooer Vauxhall 1924 Tourer & Moosie Tooer, 2006
Fine set of pipes Six Rover V8 engines cobbled together to power one tractor - a competitor in the Tractor Pulling eve...
Barrier number 2, 1950 I've had a go at Beryl Simpson's picture #25882, but I'm afraid it isn't an improvement. Maybe you S...
World War II medals of Capt Charlie Smith World War II medals of Capt Charlie Smith, master mariner, Stromness. Clockwise from top: OBE, Italy...
What it takes to make a bowl of muesli... What it takes to make a bowl of muesli . . . Steam-powered bruising, Dounby Show 2010.
Picky pics, two thousand and six Picky pics, two thousand & six. Clockwise from left: Moar cars than most (Billy Moar's exhibit at m...
Aerial views. 27 July 2002 Aerial views. 27 July 2002. Clockwise from bottom left: Hatston pier under construction; Central Ki...
Farewell to St Ola IV St Ola IV about to pass the red buoy, Stromness, for the last time, escorted by Graemsay and Stromne...
Lorimer lepidoptera Photo 20 Sep 2006. A small fraction of the late R Ian Lorimer's collection held by Orkney Archive. S...

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