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1957

Leaving Stromness A wednesday night 5 o'clock sail for Aberdeen on the St Clement with livestock and passengers. The y...
Before daily sailings N Isles Thorfin, Clement, Siguard The St Clement was disgarging at the Amelia berth and the Siguard was...
Early Sailing The Earl Siguard leaving for theNorth Isles about 0500hrs the snap was taken from the St Clement ar...
Longhope Wedding in the Y.M. This is my uncle Arnold's wedding, over the next ten years along came my cousins Elaine, George and ...
Friends! Date approximate! Not sure where the photo was taken. From the left - Jimmy Farquhar, Elsie Towers (...
Waiting for the shop to open? I guessed the year, as I have no idea! Sitting in the windowsill of, what is now Wishart's Hardware ...
Two Lads and a Van Harvey Groundwater and Davy Watt. Photographed on Great Western Road opposite the old Community Cen...
Flett & Sons A very young Ian Tulloch with the yellow Commer van. I think Ian was a learner driver at the time....
Flett & Sons The ladies from the grocery counter: Moira Poke and Lily Caithness.
Flett & Sons Top of the stairs in Flett & Sons - a place of kitchen ware, toilet rolls, distemper, cattle bands, ...
Ashore? Date is a guess. I think this ship was in a spot of bother. It seems to be parked at the east sid...
Lifeboat Date is a guess. A lifeboat leaving Kirkwall Pier. [Sailing uphill into a gale- I assume that yo...

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