We found these earlier, rather fabulous, images of Provost Slater and other dignitaries planting trees in their full Council regalia and we thoroughly approve.
Any captions for these photos will be heartily welcolmed and added to this post and we may even send a sweetie (possibly pre-licked) to the reader who makes us laugh the most.
We do not have a definitive date for these photographs but they must pre-date 1936 as they were taken by Tom Kent and they probably date post 1925 as that is when John M. Slater became Provost of Kirkwall.
But what about the trees in the background of these images???? We have also found some articles from the Orkney Herald newspaper discussing trees in the Willows in 1922:
How about: Council digs in, plants numerous trees.
ReplyDeleteThis tree-planting took place not at the time of George V's Jubilee in 1935, as you say in your later post, but on the day of George VI's coronation, 12th May 1937. The robes of the Provost and Bailies were worn for the first time at the Town Council meeting of 5th May 1937. A full report of the planting is in the Orkney Herald of 19th May, with photos. It's a puzzle how the negatives are with Tom Kent's ones, seeing as he died in 1936, but on the Orkney Image Library site there's a "Tom Kent" photo of the Christian Radich sail training ship in Kirkwall Bay also in 1937.
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