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A Tom Kent picture of the Quadrant in Kirkwall on a snowy winter's day.
Date is a guess- any idea when these houses were built? I see the cathedral there, so it is post-1137...
Picture added on 25 January 2005
These houses were built for the soldiers returning from WWI. They are substantial stone-built houses, and look exactly the same today. The Council made the pitch in the middle of the Quadrant smaller in (I think) the mid-80s, as parking had started to prove a real problem to the residents.
Added by Lynn Campbell on 05 May 2005
My mother was born in the Quadrant in 1923 and still lives in the same house.
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Added by Janis Larkin on 05 November 2006
Kirkwall
