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Who is this? Think he could be related to Brian Clouston from Finstown, photo could be at parkhead.
Picture added on 06 November 2009 at 17:11
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Jimmy Manson.
Anonymous comment added on 06 November 2009
That is the Late Great Jimmy Manson, he could tell you a tale or two.
Added by Stewart Taylor on 06 November 2009
It is Jimmy Manson who worked for many years for the U.K.A.E.A. Caithness. We had many a good laugh with Jimmy when he used to visit us in Thurso and mum and dad in Longhope. He was a brother of Lizzie Mowat.
Added by Beryl Simpson on 06 November 2009
Is this Jimmy Manson whose family at one time lived at Ore in North Walls??.
If it is Jimmy then he lived for sometime in Thurso and was quite a joker as I remember.
If it is Jimmy then he lived for sometime in Thurso and was quite a joker as I remember.
Added by John Budge on 07 November 2009
I think this person is Jimmy Manson
Added by Moira Kent on 07 November 2009
No relation of mine but certainly a grand uncle of the anonymous contributer. Should be identified by older hoy viewers and later in Thurso. A spinner of fantastic tales whose genes are still rampant in Finstown
Added by Brian Clouston on 08 November 2009
He was best man at my late mother and fathers wedding, the way he is sitting there is the way he always sat when visiting, leaning well back in the chair ,and spinning the most incredible tales,he had a brother Donnie living in Thurso as well..
Added by Jimmy Hamilton on 09 November 2009
I remember Jimmy living in Ormlie Lodge in 1982. He was a real character and always up for a laugh.
Added by Robbie Flett on 09 November 2009
Sometime during WW 11 a German plane dropped a stick of bombs and they fell around the farm of Ore just above Lyness, at that time Ore was farmed by the Manson Family.
Some fell close to the house and others fell in the fields among the neeps and tatties.
Jimmy went to his work at the Lyness Base in the morning and his workmates asked
,how are things at Ore Jimmy, oh he replied the last o the tatties are jist comman doon noo!!
I have already told about Jimmy buying a boat from Lyness and having it transported to Scrabster on the Ola. Jimmy had them lower it into the water and then brought it the short distance across Thurso Bay and up the river.
It was a dirty day with a strong westerly gale blowing. Jimmy poured a bucket o water over his head and as he motored up the river his freends gathered and said "My god Jimmy what a day, have yea come from Orkney in that little boat?"
"Yaas," says Jimmy "and some bloody trip I have had!"
What a Joker Jimmy was.
Some fell close to the house and others fell in the fields among the neeps and tatties.
Jimmy went to his work at the Lyness Base in the morning and his workmates asked
,how are things at Ore Jimmy, oh he replied the last o the tatties are jist comman doon noo!!
I have already told about Jimmy buying a boat from Lyness and having it transported to Scrabster on the Ola. Jimmy had them lower it into the water and then brought it the short distance across Thurso Bay and up the river.
It was a dirty day with a strong westerly gale blowing. Jimmy poured a bucket o water over his head and as he motored up the river his freends gathered and said "My god Jimmy what a day, have yea come from Orkney in that little boat?"
"Yaas," says Jimmy "and some bloody trip I have had!"
What a Joker Jimmy was.
Added by John Budge on 09 November 2009
No I dont think Jimmy was related to Brian
But its a widely held view in Finstown that he was his mentor
But its a widely held view in Finstown that he was his mentor
Added by Damsay Duck Hunter on 10 November 2009
Jimmy visited Ayreside quite a bit himself and dad would have a dram or two. Always playing tricks on us girls
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Added by Isobel Leslie on 19 January 2012
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