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Ian Hourston

Bookmark I found this bookmark in a tome that probably belonged to my maternal Grannie. The maker's name on t...
Jim Robertson & friends 1987 I keep going back to picture #23968 and trying to figure out who's who. Names for only eight of the ...
A ship of many names Upper: Caledonian Sky alongside Stromness today 19 Jun 2012 (with Hamnavoe behind). Lower: same ship...
Smokers outside Buck House 1919 My son David asked me to post this pic of his Grandad Tom Hourston (on left) leaving Buckingham Pala...
Wasp This little wasp visited me the other day. The cotton-wool-like material it's walking on is in fact ...
Mein Schiff 2 The moving finger writes . . . Mein Schiff 2 approaching berth, Hatston, this morning (21 July 2012...
Shopping Week fireworks Pretty pyrotechnics 21 july 2012 End-of-Shopping-Week fireworks a couple of hours ago.
Marco Polo in the sun Makes a change! Cruise-ship Marco Polo shimmering in a heat-haze at 2 o'clock this afternoon, 24 Jul...
Seefalke German tug Seefalke model. I photographed it on 24 May 2012 at the invitation of Bob Kelday whose fa...
Bad sign Photo: Sep 2009 In connection with pic #26602, the professionals don't always get it right first ti...
Apostrophe catastrophe Airport error. On the theme of incorrect signs, notices etc, here's one that users of Kirkwall Airp...
Koenig class German battleship model I made this 10"-long wooden model 20-odd years ago with the intention of making many more for sale i...

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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