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Kirkwall from the air, 1955
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Kirkwall from the air, 1955

Picture used by permission of Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland.

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Taken on 3rd December 1955.

Buttquoy Crescent looking very new, and the Wrennery still between Buttquoy Crescent/Buttquoy Place/Clay Loan. Hatston still looking very much like a wartime airfield. And of course the slicks of sewage across Bonnie Kirkwall Bay.
Picture added on 04 November 2014 at 22:12
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