As the Thurso post is proving so popular has anybody got any old pictures of Wick? It would be fascinating to see them
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As the Thurso post is proving so popular has anybody got any old pictures of Wick? It would be fascinating to see them
Good idea - but I cant work the system putting them on..... ! Ochanee.
Trinkie
Can someone help Trinkie please.:D
Would love to see your old photo's Trinkie
OH please trinkie, I would so like to see some pics of wick and wickers from the olden days. I love the Thurso ones.:D
A few I found some time ago (which should ideally be re-scanned) are at:
http://chemistry.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/jrb/wick/
JimBews
I just wanted to highlight this one from the link jimbews posted above because its truly a fantastic photo, well to me it is anyway :Razz
http://chemistry.st-andrews.ac.uk/st.../images/08.jpg
Some great photos in from Mr Bews... many thanks.
I remember your father well - and a lovely man he was too.
Mr Caldwell of Wick Junior Choir fame is among them and many other faces I remember.
How many of the young Boys Brigade are still around and looking into caithness.org I wonder?
Great pictures.
Trinkie
It's my father that's MR Bews ;)
I'm still just ee meenester's son!
He and Mum are still on the go and met up with a number of Wickers a couple of weeks ago at the sad occasion of Margaret Youngson's (Budge) funeral.
Nothing more recent, but here he is a couple of years ago:
http://chemistry.st-andrews.ac.uk/st.../family/dad90/
JimBews
Jim, thanks for sharing those lovely photos of your family. I remember your Dad -- he always had a huge smile.
Boat is the Ajax WK106 I think the guys in the pic are Andrew Taylor Jockie Sinclair (Ratter) and Sandy Plowman .....I think
Alister Budge would have been skipper then
Anyone know of any photos of the houses that used to be at Wick airport in the early 1960's?
My late uncle Andrew Taylor from Ulbster is in the picture of the boat
Thought I would give you a hand to boost up the "Week" piccys a bit!
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/a...MTHERIVERr.jpg
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/a...THEOLDMANr.jpg
What a generous person you are Thirsaloon !!
Many thanks for all the wonderful pictures of Wick !
I hope we'll get more sent in now .
Regards
Trinkie
Good to see that you have owld photies o' Week as weel, thirsaloon! I am enjoying these too! :)
Your picture and postcard collection must be awsome Thirsaloon. Thank you so much for sharing them. They have been fantastic for me to get a bit of a mental picture of the area.
You're a star Thirsaloon! :D
I'm making my first trip to Caithness next week and shall enjoy trying to pick out some of the streets and buildings you have posted so generously on the Awesome Org.
Many thanks!
Helen
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Great photos Thirsaloon! This is a most interesting one, where the fountain down by the river is in the process of being built. Do you have a year for it?
Hello Betty,
There is a link to the Fountain on caithness.org. It was recently restored.
The date given is 1906.
Trinkie
Brilliant pictures. Thanks to everyone who is posting it's fascinating.
Great pictures. Out of Interest does anyone have or know of any more of the fishing boat WK106 with that crew?
I am posting the following on behalf of Trinkie. LB
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...OldSoldier.jpg
I love this old photo, taken by Johnston just outside the Studio in Market Place.
An old Soldier walking from Edinburgh to Land's End via Wick, with all his belongings in his cart.
This picture reminds me of the Old Soldier William Wordsworth writes about in The Prelude - as a young boy he too met such a man. Wm Wordsworth plucks up courage to speak to this old fellow. The soldier responds to his greeting -
"Slowly from his resting place
He rose, and with a lean and wasted arm
In measured gesture lifted to his head,
Returned my salutation."
On their return from War, many soldiers found themselves homeless and unable to settle, so they packed a few things and started to walk, living in the open, sleeping under the hedgerows and eating what they could find ! I wonder if this old fellow ever made it to Land's End.
The name of the side of his cart is R.Carlisle
Trinkie
What fantastic pictures,thank you for posting them:D
When I looked closely at this wonderful photo of the old soldier Trinkie I noticed a building behind him which isn't there now - I wonder what it was - does anybody know?