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PUBLIC life will come to a standstill on Monday to allow people to pay respect to Queen Elizabeth who will be laid to rest at St George’s Chapel following a state funeral. Monday 19 September has been declared a one-off bank holiday by the UK Government. Shetland Islands.
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The waste operator subsequently spent eight hours sifting through the bundles of slides, picking out the images of local life on Shetland.
A walrus at Gutcher, taken in the 1980s picture: Nick Dymond I found about 300 images of the island,” he said. Loads of them are of local residents, wildlife on Shetland and the island s landscape. I am just so glad I was there to save them – it was a real right place at the right time moment.”
Paul said the photographs include a number of old pictures of Fair Isle, where Nick worked as an assistant warden at the bird observatory in 1966, a walrus at Gutcher and a shot of an old P&O boat St. Clair.
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HUNDREDS of slides featuring old photos of Shetland have been saved from being dumped – with hopes that they might be donated to the museum’s picture archive.
Paul Moar, who works at the Gremista Waste Management Facility in Lerwick, was taken aback when Nick Dymond popped in the other week with two bags containing around 5,000 slides.
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Dymond asked where would be best to dispose of them – a collection of slides of pictures taken when out and about on his travels around the world, and which were just gathering dust.
The keen nature lover, who was a former RSPB warden for Fetlar as well as a writer of a book on Fair Isle birds, was looking to declutter.