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Ian Hourston

Prince models compared Lower pic taken 23 Nov 2014. Upper pic from Internet. My recently acquired 1:250 model of Eastern...
Zooming off to Graemsay Trying out a new camera from my bedroom window (where else?) It was kind of the Graemsay folk to ere...
Nearly off the clock The household barometer was dead right on this occasion. Sorry it's not sharp. Didn't realise it ...
Medals and Model Charlie Smith's WW2 decorations (see picture #25906) and model of his last ship in the spotlight tog...
Ancestral Diamond wedding Nicol Folster and Margaret Spence were my father's maternal grandparents (Nicol & Folster were Dad's...
Slatero science This common Woodlouse or Slatero decided to trundle across my kitchen floor last night (11 Feb 2015)...
Picture 27640 revisited An attempt to make pcture #27640 a little easier on the eye.
Italian PoW chapel, Kenya In The Orcadian of 12 Feb 2015 there's a letter from J Garrioch referring to Italian PoW chapels oth...
Charlie Hourston maybe, and BS 96 1912 - 1920? Although the facial features are indistinct, I'm sure this is my Uncle Charlie Hours...
Near total solar eclipse 20 March 2015 Using directions found on the net and a supply of gaffer-tape, I rigged up a pair of old binoculars ...
Orkney souvenir Picture 25 March 2015. This little (4") saucer seems to have been in my house all my life. But th...
Unveiling of the Ktchener Memorial Edit of picture #27646 and picture #27648, 22 May 2015 Here's a reoriented composite of Stuart Ke...

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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