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The Photograph was taken In the Barn at Culdigeo on the Occasion of the Golden Wedding of Mr & Mrs James Pirie. At a guess it was in the late 1930’s. Culdigeo is on the Scorradale Road.

In the Photo if I can remember what I was told all these years ago by my Granny.
Back row Bertie Work ,Son-in –Law (Collingwood ,Stromness) Bob Firth ,Son-in –Law (Horraldshay, Finstown) John Laughton Son-in –Law ,(Houton Head) Tony Laughton ,grandson

Middle Row Tina Work (daughter) Mr & Mrs Pirie, Margaret Laughton (daughter) with son George Laughton her knee, Not sure about this chap but think it was Willie Tait from News in Houton

Front row May Firth (daughter) Rosetta Firth (granddaughter) "Peedie Tina" Work (granddaughter)

I recognise this picture because my mother had a copy of it. She was Violet Johnston, who was a servant girl at Culdigo until 1937 when she married my father, Albert Dunnett, the tenant in the next doot croft of Crumbrecks or Crumpies.

I saw a link to this photo in Sib Folk News and showed it to my mother, Isa Mackenzie(nee Tait)who is 97 years of age. Mrs Pirie was her Grand Aunt Jeanie. My mother is sure that Bertie Work is at the right in the middle row, not her Uncle Willie Tait of Newhouse. She agrees that Bob Firth is probably top row second from the left although the man top left looks quite like him too. She has no idea who the man top left is if he is not Bob Firth. She agrees with all the other identifications.

Does anyone know who owns Culdigo now