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The date for this is just a wild guess because I havent a clue when this wid be. The owld fulla that gave me this picture said he kent the driver o the forrid cart weel and said we would hiv kent him too, A pillar in the community in his day.
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I have seen this photo as a postcard and I thought it looked a bit like Willie o'the Bu
Added by Beryl Simpson on 25 March 2008
Alan, the first cart driver looks like Willie O the Bu, but I havn't figured out exactly where the picture is taken from.
Added by Fred Johnston on 25 March 2008
Is it the BINKS across the water ??
Added by M. Shearer on 25 March 2008
Is it coming along toward the Smiddy looking across to the binks?
Added by Jimmy Hamilton on 25 March 2008
The Binks is in the background and they are nearly at the trees just before the Smithy.
Added by Beryl Simpson on 25 March 2008
Just before the Smiddy Plantins. Binks in background.
Added by William Watters on 25 March 2008
Looks to me that the photo was taken at the Smiddy plantings with the Binks and the Millhouse /Kennels across the water.
Added by Stewart Taylor on 25 March 2008
Isaac says that this is indeed Willie Sutherland o the Bu. They must have been hardy lads- he said they wid be up very early and would go to where ever they were going and then do a days work. After that they would set out for home and when they got home they still had the horse to see to, so it made for a long day.
Added by Allan Besant on 26 March 2008
They started at the Bu at four in the morning, as they had to get the milking done and the milk ready for the Lyness lorry at six or seven. It was an arable farm as well as dairy.
I worked there for a few weeks in about 1950. When I got there at six oclock, they had already done a couple of hours work and were in for breakfast number one. The breakfasts, like all the other meals at the Bu were lavish.
I worked there for a few weeks in about 1950. When I got there at six oclock, they had already done a couple of hours work and were in for breakfast number one. The breakfasts, like all the other meals at the Bu were lavish.
Added by Fred Johnston on 26 March 2008
I mind Willie The Bu delivering milk to us in Lyness in old whisky bottles, sometimes with the labels still on them ! This was in the late 1960s and early 70s.
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Added by Elaine Sutherland (Allen) on 28 March 2012
Hoy and Walls
