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!
S Baikie & Sons, Timber Merchants, Kirkwall. 1955.
Jock Shearer; Geordie Rendall; Harry Peace; Bertie Rosie;
Dover Flett; Jim Borwick; Bill Bews.
Date is a guess. Photo courtesy of Violet Perfect (nee Seatter),
who worked in the office 1954 – 1960.
View Large VersionPicture added on 24 May 2011 at 23:38
Think the second from the left might be George Eunson
Anonymous comment added on 25 May 2011
Sorry, my memory failed me. It is George Eunson and, in the middle is Stewart Rosie, not Bertie Rosie. Both brothers worked at Baikies.
Added by Violet Perfect on 04 June 2011
Sandy. Do you have any more photos of the woodyard men? I am looking for a better picture of Harry Peace. Ian Cameron.
Added by Ian Cameron on 13 September 2011
Sorry Ian, I have no more photos of the woodyard men. I got the few I had from Violet Perfect. I will ask her if she has any more. She might read this.
Added by Sandy Windwick on 13 September 2011
One of the men working in Baikies Woodyard got a splinter in his backside when crawling out through a pile o wood, The man was taken taken up to Dr Gordon who said to drop his breeks, on closer inspection DrGordon said "My you do have a nasty prick" the man said "Divel minds hid git the bit o wid oot o me erse"!!!.
Added by John Budge on 13 September 2011
I'm very sorry, Ian, I don't have any more photos from Baikie's Woodyard.
Added by Violet Perfect on 17 September 2011
Where was the wood yard located?
[It became Brownlees, then Jewsons, so it was most of the rectangle bounded by Junction Road, West Castle Street, Great Western Road and Burnmouth Road. - Steven]
[It became Brownlees, then Jewsons, so it was most of the rectangle bounded by Junction Road, West Castle Street, Great Western Road and Burnmouth Road. - Steven]
Added by Ross Flett on 14 September 2014
People tend to forget that there were two woodyard yards on that side of Junction Road - the other one being Peace's next to Nicolson's garage. And yes before anyone writes in the Post Office IS on a Site which was Peace's woodyard too on the opposite side of the road. The corner of Junction Road and West Castle had the offices of Baikies which at one time was the site of Farrow's Bank which went bust in 1922. And continuing down West Castle St you came to the store of Wm Duncan Reid on the corner with Great Western Road.
Baikie's was founded by an illegitimate son of Capt. John Baikie who established the National Bank in Kirkwall in 1825. Baikie first had his office on Broad St. and workshops on Ayre Road before moving to the site on Junction Road in the 1880's.
<< back
Baikie's was founded by an illegitimate son of Capt. John Baikie who established the National Bank in Kirkwall in 1825. Baikie first had his office on Broad St. and workshops on Ayre Road before moving to the site on Junction Road in the 1880's.
Added by David Partner on 23 September 2014
Kirkwall
