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A fancy-dress party in the old Harray Hall, January 1939. Back row, left to right: Mrs Laughton, unknown, Davie Laughton, Stanley Leask, Ella Corrigal, Jackie Isbister, Jim Johnstone, Madge Corrigal, James William Anderson, Louie Firth, Anna Johnston, Willie Firth, Ivy Flett, Jim Clouston, Dorry Firth, Henry Stevenson; Middle row: Zelma Smith, Stanley Flett, Peggy Anderson, Peggy Clouston, Mary Liz Anderson, Lizzie Ann Flett, Violet Harper, Winnie Flett, Eoin ?, Winnie ?, unknown, unknown; Front row: Mrs Flett, Miss Papley, Miss Heddle, May Gourdie, Jamesina Flett, Mrs and Mr Turfus, Maggie Moar, Lilian Anderson, Edith Isbister, Lilian Moar, Barbara Learmonth, Maimie Flett. I've given the names just as someone wrote them down for my mother a few years ago - whoever it was surely did well to name the snowman! The Mrs Flett on the left in the front is my grandmother Georgetta, disguised as an Indian princess. The photo is stamped, "Wm. S. Thomson, Press and Commercial Photographer, c/o Mainland, 17, Victoria Street, Kirkwall, Orkney."
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Picture added on 14 December 2006