Old Photograph Sule Skerry Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Sule Skerry lighthouse located West of the Orkney Islands, Scotland. Sule Skerry is a remote skerry in the North Atlantic. A skerry is a small rocky island, usually defined to be too small for habitation; it may simply be a rocky reef. A skerry can also be called a low sea stack. Sule Skerry lighthouse was the most remote manned lighthouse in Great Britain from its opening in 1895 to its automation in 1982. Its remote location meant that construction could only take place during the summer, thus it took from 1892 to 1894 to complete. The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry is a story and song of a Silkie who lives on Sule Skerry.



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Old Photograph St Stephen Street Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses and people on St Stephen Street in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland. The street was developed during a period of rapid expansion in Edinburgh, connecting to the Howe Street and Stockbridge area.


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Old Photograph Chairs Orkney Islands Scotland

Old photograph of Kirkness chairs on the Orkney Islands, Scotland. David Kirkness was born in Westray, Orkney, 1855 and died in Kirkwall, Orkney, 1936. Like his father and grandfather, trained as a joiner in Orkney. In the 1870s he moved with his wife and growing family to Kirkwall, the principle town of these remote Scottish islands. There, he set up a general joinery workshop, making traditional straw backed Orkney chairs as a sideline. Twenty years later the Orkney chair had become the workshop’s main product. Over his lifetime Kirkness made a reported 14,000 chairs.



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Old Photograph Mill Of Eyrland Orkney Islands Scotland

Old photograph of the Mill Of Eyrland, Stenness, Orkney, Scotland. The grain mill, also known as Mill of Ireland, was built in 1862. It was unusual as it had, as part of the original construction, a dwelling within it. The mill ceased operations in the 1960s.



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Old Photograph Lambaness Orkney Island Scotland

Old photograph of Lambaness, Sanday, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Lamba Ness, was settled by Norsemen after the Viking age, with strong Norse cultural and linguistic influences persisting for centuries before the islands formally transferred to Scotland.
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