Orkney Image Library

MV Eastern Prince Continuing the theme of picture #27104, here's my latest attempt to 'get it right' (29 Apr 2013). Co...

Helliar backs through the narrows Helliar backs carefully through 'the Stromness Narrows' as she approaches the North Pier at 10.30 th...

Mystery thing In connection with picture #27123, here's another try at solving the mystery of the horizontal band,...

Daggers drawn My father's WW1 razor-sharp skean-dhu on left, my son's blunt equivalent on right.

Dock dog-leg The new Stromness pier takes a turn to its left. (Leaves are appearing on the sycamores at last.)

Graemsay makes a break for it! Helliar completes her pirouette as she backs towards her berth, tonight 22 May 2013. (Thistlebank a...

Slinging her hook A Carte de Visite from about 1913. The woman on the left, in high-lacing boots, is Maggie Smith - n...

Kirkwall Harbour Some pics shot at Kirkwall yesterday, 27 May 2013.

DSP badge mystery solved! Karl Cooper's much appreciated help with the Eastern Prince mystery has shone unexpected light on pi...

Long service recognised Picture courtesy of Aberdeen Journals Ltd May 1978. The name on the certificate is hard to make out...

Sisters In support of my contention in a comment on picture #27151 that my Mum and her sisters were easy on ...

Maggie E Spence's 100th birthday party I can't remember exactly how this great photo came into my possession. An inscription on the back sa...