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Can't help with the Gent's identity - sorry - but I think a better date guess would be 1930s. The motorcycle looks like a Triumph from that decade.

He is the spitting image of Kenny Sinclair from Eastside Birsay, you are a descendent of one J Johnston, think it might be him.

North Ness in the background.The foreground is not as I remember it but maybe a trick of the camera. The Masonic Lodge chimneys maybe?

Yes mum thinks it's Jim o Leary which was my grandads brother. He was married to Emma Moar of muce !

Jimmy Johnston o Leary was a cousin of my father's and a 'favourite uncle' of mine. One of his endearing characteristics was the way he would terminate his occasional (and always welcome) visits to our home in Stromness: he'd suddenly stand up, clap his cap on his head, say "Weel, bairns, time to go. Thank you and cheerio!" and out the door.
I never saw or heard of him with a motorbike, though he certainly was married to Emma Moar, exclamation-mark and all.
This gentleman is unfamiliar to me; I'm confident he's NOT 'Uncle Jimmy'.

Ok probably not him then! Looking at other photos supplied by the same person it looks like they're johnston's from Longhope!

This man has a Johnstone look about him with a long jawline and a wry smile a look that Sammy Johnstone o the Muirs had .

I would say this photograph was taken outside Bob Johnstone's Garage (Cycle Bob).

Fairly confident its the same man in picture #28320

Kenny Sinclair, I've been mulling over your comment above - and Karen Walls's comment on #27174. We're obviously blood relations, albeit not very close. My unreliable memory tells me Jimmy Johnston had two brothers and a sister - Willie, Jock and Maggie - who all had daughters of whom your mother must have been one. So I suppose that makes us '2nd cousins once-removed'.
Should we throw a big party . . ? Nah, let's not bother.

It took many years and additional photos. But I believe this is my great uncle, John Johnston. Also shown in picture #23250