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Ian Hourston

SS Hoy Head visits Cava. restored An attempt today to 'restore' Willie Watters' badly damaged picture #25656. It was a tough nut indee...
St Sunniva by night St Sunniva - night 1 ? Leslie Burgher's #26075 induced me to dig out this pic, also from 1987 when ...
St Sunniva engine St Sunniva engine, January 1997. To help keep this nostalgic thread going, here's a shot of one of ...
From Wideford Hill towards Stronsay From Wideford Hill, Jun 1995. Continuing the Wideford Hill theme, here's the view towards Stronsay....
Coats of Arms Ian Cameron's interesting pic #26079 started me wondering whether the crest it carries has any parti...
Betty Corrigall's Grave Sep 1988 In a comment just posted on picture #12049 I referred to Harry Berry and Rev Kenwood Bryan...
Vistafjord and Saga Ruby In connection with picture #26086, here's the ship in Kirkwall Bay before and after she changed her ...
An inexpensive way to mark a silver jubilee A rummage in old boxes turned up this Australian florin of 1926, rather crudely stamped '25' and dri...
Mystery rummage result Polish Army badge, WW2. Another rummage in old boxes brought this to light. Google tells me it's th...
Shopping Week lapel badge Continuing the thread of arms and heraldry, here's a lapel-badge from an early Stromness Shopping We...
HMS Bulwark In connection with picture #26114, here's a shot I took of HMS Bulwark - affectionately (?) known as...
Petrojarl Banff 5 Feb 2012 Offshore Processing Ship 'Petrojarl Banff' still at anchor in misty Scapa Flow.

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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