I would most sincerely appreciate your dad's response. I guess our old Jim Davie would have been know to your Dad. I have a photo of Jim in his house at finstown taken in about 1974. Stephen On Monday, February 2, 2004, at 03:29 PM, <steven@kw15.co.uk> wrote: > My dad (from Finstown) always refers to it as Rob Davie's Brig. I'll > ask him > who Rob Davie was. > > Cheers > Steven > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sigurd Towrie" <sigurd@orkneyjar.com> > To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 11:20 PM > Subject: RE: [<orcadia>] Davie Brig at Gimbister > > >> On 03 February 2004 01:20, stephen davie wrote: >> >>> I just learned that there is a bridge (my informant calls it a Brig) >>> south of Grimbister, called the Davie Brig. >>> I am interested in knowing if anyone has the history of this "brig" >>> and if there would be a photo of the "brig" and also a photo of the >>> sign identifying the "brig". >> >> There's no sign. Davie's Brig lies by the main Kirkwall-Stromness road >> and, in the past at least, was a notorious accident blackspot. >> >> I had pictures, taken last Tuesday would you believe, when I was stuck >> there in the snow. But it seems that I deleted them. A vry small >> version >> of one is at http://www.orcadian.co.uk/archive/2004/snowcar.jpg. >> Davie's >> Brig is to the left of the red car. >> >> -- >> Sigurd Towrie >> Blackhall - Kirbister - Stromness - Orkney >> Heritage of Orkney: www.orkneyjar.com >> Home: sigurd@orkneyjar.com >> Work: sigurd.towrie@orcadian.co.uk >> >> >> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the >> word >> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >> > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >