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Third from right, front row, is Stewart Wilson who was also organist and choirmaster of Victoria Street Church. A Fair Islander, he worked for 'Pia' Anderson Sr, but could turn his hand to almost anything. He often took me with his son Stewart jr sailing in his dinghy 'Fridarey'. (He also enrolled me as a reluctant bass chorister in my last couple of years at school.) Though a serious-minded man, he wasn't as severe as he looks here.

Anything known about John Banks please?

I know very little about the 'John Banks' in this photo Jane. Couldn't even be certain his first name was in fact John. But I'll tell you the little I think I remember. He had a shop/cafe at 7 Alfred Street, Stromness, in the late 1940s and most of the 1950s, and it's in my mind that he served as Purser on the St Ola for a time, but that could well be incorrect. He had a son, Stewart, and a daughter Bryce. I think they may have both emigrated. I can't recall anything about Mrs Banks, but I think she ran the business jointly with her husband.

I might have added that I believe his grandson (Stewart's son) became a Captain in the Royal Australian Navy.

That looks more like Arthur Young than Sydney Young near the top.

I think beside Ha Will may be Jimmy Robson. Beside Tom Craigie is surely one of the Johnston brothers (Yanks) from The Loons. My recollection is that Mr Banks' first name was also Stewart, and known among the boys, as Ikey Mo. His son and daughter both emigrated to Australia. Daughter Bryce married Jim Scott, of the Kirkwall shoe shop and Scott's Temperance Hotel

In my previous comment, I named the man beside Tom Craigie as one of the brothers from the Loons - the name is, of course, Sinclair (not Johnston, as I noted. dementia fast approaches!

I think 4th from right in front row is actually William (Willie) Couper, my Dad's (James) older brother.

2nd row 3rd is Jackie Black 6th is Davie Drever

Came across this by accident. It was not John Banks, the man in the photo is my late grandfather Stewart Anderson Banks, he and my late grandmother did run a shop in Alfred Street. My father Stewart and mother Nancy (nee Logie) migrated to Australia in 1969. My late brother Norman was a Captain in the Royal Australian Navy until he passed away in 2011.

Stewart Anderson Banks (pictured) married my cousin Adaline Angus. She was the daughter of Robert James Angus (1855-1942) and Mary Linklater Moar (1887-1973) [daughter of George Moar and Ann Foubister]. It is Mary and the Moar family line that were my cousins.