Orkney Image Library

That was before it was called Andersquoy. Matron Findlay at the back and you can just see part of the large bird cage front right.

Is this the old County Home? At one time nobody wanted to go there as it was originally the Kirkwall Poorhouse.

Yes it is the same place, now converted into flats - also several photos of the work of converting it on image library.

Several registers exist of occupants of the "poorhouse". The registers contain details of who lived there, punishments given out for misbehaviour and visitors. They were kept at St Rognvald's House. They may still be there.

The gentleman seated on the right looks like an uncle of my father, James Inkster, originally from Rousay. He was in the County Home and died there sometime in the late sixties.

He was known as Uncle Jamie to my wife and he was an Inkster. He used to live in a small house just across from the County Home

I was at the cemetary today and checked the grave of "Uncle James" Inkster - he died in February 1968 so this photo obviously predates then.

When I was a kid about 12 years old I went to the county home on xmas day along wae other kids fae King St church Sunday School and sang xmas carols to the old folk Bob Sclater took us in Nicholsons bus.We got cake fancies & lemonade.I mind the nurses sang a song called "This Old House" This wid been 1956.