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Peter Leith of Appiehouse, Stenness, holding his daughter Patricia on a dead whale washed up on the shore. Not a Hourston photograph.

The Spence family of Buan, Stromness. Date unknown.

The Spence family of Buan, Stromness. Date unknown.

The photographer William Hourston and dog, date unknown.

British Navy Frigate HMS Largo Bay visiting Stromness during Shopping Week, July 1952. See Orcadian 24/7/1952, page 3.

The Queen Mother during a visit to open the King George V Playing Fields at Pickaquoy, 9th August 1956.

Along the Ness Road, Stromness, with the Lighthouse Shore Station on the left and the Double Houses in the centre, c.1950s.

Christie's Brae, a lane leading to Church Road, Stromness, c.1953.

British Navy Frigate HMS Largo Bay visiting Stromness during Shopping Week, July 1952. See Orcadian 24/7/1952, page 3.

Children and swans, Flaws pier, Stromness, c.1960s. On the right is Elaine Linklater.