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Left to right: Mr Budge, farm worker Ham; Mr Finlayson, farmer Ham; Sinclair Coghill, Starbank; James Taylor, Post office; Walter Hossack, Hillocks; Andrew Miller, Little Wester; Andrew Miller, Sinigoe; George Gibson Douglas, Courtfall; ?; J.T…

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Looking north from Roseville, post 1930.

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Looking south from the Post office, Bella Swanson at ehr door, pre 1930.

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Cathie Taylor (nee Begg) with 'Nippy' in Brough post office - 1967.

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Robert Fields builds a stone cairn at Heathsfield, in Brough to display the commemorative plaque on. 2011

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St. John's Pool.

A small protected pond with islands and a bird hide along side, is the perfect place to watch hundreds of nesting birds fledge their young.

Since it's development in 1989, the St. Johns Pool has become recognised as one of the…

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William has been breeding sheep dogs and entering trails for 50 years. He has been Scottish Champion, and for 10 yers, a member of the Scottish team.

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Barbara Mackenzie Calder with her two sons Donald (Dennis) and Jim dressed in the sailorsuit and Grandma Elizabeth Henderson (Barbara Calder's mother). Photographer, Humphrey of Wick. 1936

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The Liverpool of Liverpool launched in 1888, the largest sailing vessel ever built on the Clyde, taking jute from Calcutta to Dundee. Captain Thomas Calder of Scarfskerry took command on her maiden voyage at the age of 36. Also on board was ship's…

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Oil painting of Clett Cottage 1932, before it's modernisation. By MBGS (presumably a Simpson?)

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Cliff at Dunnet Head Lighthouse with the Orkney Island of Hoy in the distance.

Four flashes every 30 seconds is the signal given out by Dunnet Head Lighthouse to help seamen safely navigate their way through the Pentland Firth. On Foffy das the…

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Dunnet Head Cliffs, just north of Brough Harbour showing the sandstone structure.

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Local coastguard practice on the cliffs at Brough Harbour. Late 1970's

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Local coastguard practice on the cliffs at Brough Harbour. Late 1970's

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Angela Lewis (nee Frary) and John Alistair Coghill Frary with a catch of cod landed at Brough Harbour. 1959.

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St. John's Pool.

A small protected pond with islands and a bird hide along side, is the perfect place to watch hundreds of nesting birds fledge their young.

Since it's development in 1989, the St. Johns Pool has become recognised as one of the…

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Document - from Caithness County Council 23rd October 1952. Water department invoice for connecting to mains water supply.

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David Glass making corn stooks in the field behind 'Ocean View' in 2010.

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Dunnet Church, take from the Westside Road junction to 'Bayview'. Printed from a slide taken by Jim Calder in the late 1960's.

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Photo taken by Keith Parkes - Highland Eye.

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Photo By George Shearer
Poem by Alex Shearer.

DBR0 0021 - D1 Crossroads primary School interview with Julian Smith PDF.pdf
Pupils from Crossroads Primary School interview Julian Smith about his work as a bird illustrator and his bird-hide at St. Johns Pool, Brough. Transcription of the interview.

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Photograph taken at The Croft, Brough in the 1970's.

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St. John's Pool.

A small protected pond with islands and a bird hide along side, is the perfect place to watch hundreds of nesting birds fledge their young.

Since it's development in 1989, the St. Johns Pool has become recognised as one of the…

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Mick and Cullen O'Donnell cutting peats on Dunnet Head - 1985.

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Peat Cutting on the moss of Brough. Left to right: Tom Calder, John Dunnet, Nellie Johnson
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