Orkney Image Library

<< back
Buckle's Tower
The Orkney Image Library

Help us get organised! If we haven't correctly identified which area this picture is best listed under, please select it below and click Done!

view a random pic
Buckle's Tower

Click to View shows the too'er approximately 100 years previously- it's a testament to Mr Buckle (Jackie? Geordie?) that his tower is almost as good as new still.

It's great to see something pointless done really well, just for the satisfaction of doing it well. Ladies- this is why men dig holes in the sand while at the beach.
Picture added on 14 October 2005
Comments:
Though not given, since childhood anyway, to hole-digging at the beach, I take Willie Wattters' point. It's interesting that in both pictures, a century or so apart, the photographer was influenced to tilt the horizon down to the right to 'compensate' for the tower's marked lean to the left.

[I must take the blame for the hole-digging comment. But I stand by it! - Steven]
Added by Ian Hourston on 12 December 2011
<< back

Buildings

Fire escape on hostel C blockOld coastguard slipway, StronsayTrumland House after the fire in 1985Small turret in the Earl’s Palace gardensThe Haven, BrimsKirkwall Fire Station boarded up for the BaStromness Police StationThe Phoenix in 2001The Phoenix in 2001The Phoenix in 2001