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A Tom Kent picture.
The gents pose side on to aid identification of their bikes. That'll be McEwans furniture shop behind them?
-Steven
View Large VersionPicture added on 09 December 2006
Checking the vehicle registration records at Orkney Archives might identify who at least four of these gentlemen are (providing the owners are the riders).
Added by Paul Sutherland on 12 December 2006
Groundwater's Buildings, the property I mention in my comment on picture #3184 as possibly being under construction in that picture, are seen here immediately below the Cathedral tower. To the right, with white-washed gable, are what I think were known as Macgillivray's Buildings. If you look at them today you can see how removing chimneys, skews and glazing bars spoils the look of a house, whatever it does for keeping the weather out.
Added by Paul Sutherland on 19 July 2007
The 4th man in is my great uncle John. He had the first motor bike in Orkney.
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Added by WILLIAM SHEARER on 11 October 2009
Kirkwall
