Tuesday, 24 December 2019

20 Days of Orkney Trees # 20

Merry Christmas Eve dear readers! Surely, there are few sights more Christmassy than trees heavily-laden with snow. Today we bring you some extremely lovely snow-scenes from the Orkney Photographic Archive..


First of all, here are some pictures taken by Ian Tulloch after a snow storm in 1955:


Negative reference L 9479/3


Negative Reference L 9480/3

Negative reference L 9479/4



And these delights were taken by Tom Kent c.1900:


Tom Kent reference 3423

Tom Kent reference 3403 (detail)







Tom Kent reference 3436




Tom Kent reference 3446
We hope you have enjoyed our Christmassy, yet stubborn refusal to accept the myth that 'Orkney has no trees.' We may not have many, but we cherish the ones we have and will surely be adding to their number as time goes on.

Ah trees! God bless them every one!

Merry Christmas!




1 comment:

  1. Merry Christmas to all of you at the Orkney Archive, too.

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