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Islands/Places & Life There are 85 products.
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Tankerness School 1876-1969
Following a rural school, it's teachers and its pupils. By Kathleen Keldie. Paperback.
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Memories of Fair Isle -CD
Audio documentaries on life as it was on Fair Isle, on CD and mp3 Flash Drive.
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North Ronaldsay Voices
An Oral History. Ann Marwick spent many hours in the 1980/90s chatting to folk in North Ronaldsay and learning about the dialect, customs and lifestyles of the island in a bygone age... she has now harvested the best bits into North Ronaldsay Voices. Paperback.
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Memories of the S.S Earl Thorfinn
Billy Cardno served as a cabin boy on the S.S Earl Thorfinn from 1958 until 1961. Here we share his memories of that time, from his first steps on the deck to the ship's final days. A revised and extended reprint of Sailing With Steam. A5 booklet.
£ 8.50 -
Close To Where The Heart Gives Out
A Year in the Life of an Orkney Doctor. By Malcolm Alexander.
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A Photographic Portrait of Pentland Skerries
Photographs and history of the Pentland Skerries. Featuring the Lighthouse on the Muckle Skerry, ancient history of the island, ferryboats and major shipping disasters. By John S. Findlay. Hardback. 30 x 21.50 x 1.4 cm.
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Kirkwall: In the footsteps of Hossack -...
This book follows in Hossack’s footsteps and reveals the town’s development, primarily from 1900 to 2000. It describes the businesses that traded, their owners and a few of the characters that have added colour to the town’s history. By G. D. Partner. Hardback.
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Hugh Sinclair Yorston: The Sky's the Limit
Diaries of an Orcadian Fighter Pilot. By Bobby Halcro
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Silent II
A Further Portrait of deserted Orkney buildings. Photographs of peaceful places and structures by Keith Allardyce. Colour and texture, light and shade combine to snatch beauty from 'ruckles o' auld stanes,' and slowly mouldering interiors. Glimpses of past lives are preserved, their tales save from oblivion by the historian and writer, Tom Muir. Paperback.
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Orkney: A Special Place
Richard Clubley loves Scotland's islands, but it is Orkney that has stolen his heart... Here he portrays them with stories he gathered from interviews of many local people, delving into the secrets of the islands. Paperback.
£ 9.99
