Restoration of Map slides for SPCA
History of the map
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- South Lawn of Barony Castle in 1940
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- General Sikorski Memorial, St. Andrews
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- Polish Forces in the east of Scotland, 1940-2
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- Jan Tomasik on a building site in prewar Poland
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- The map, circa 1976-7
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- Two people crossing the map in 1992
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- Roger Kelly and David Cameron, founder members of Mapa Scotland
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- Mapa Scotland launch at Barony Castle in 2010
Working on the map
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- Visitors on the viewing platform
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- I didn’t expect Alpine flora at this height
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- Cleaning map surface
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- Have you found England yet?
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- We’re barely scraping the surface here
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- You have to admire the man
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- Pressure blasting moss
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- Men at work
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- You forgot that bit over there.
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- Climbing these mountains is exhausting!
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- Mapa member Ben Nevis none the worse for wear
Restoring the map
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- Inspecting the pipe break
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- How to get the old one out?
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- Removing an old pipe
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- New 160mm pipe section in place
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- Landscaping the pipe repair.
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- Damwater inlets and water intake
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- Water intake screens
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- Vortex thinks it’s in the southern hemisphere
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- Removing a blockage in the outlet pipe.
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- Gurgle, gurgle… waiting for water to return to the map for the first time in over three decades
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- Water returns to the North Sea after a gap of 30 years
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- Generator for pressure jet, and water tanks
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- Your fly’s undone!
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- Moray after some power jet treatment
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- Laying workshop foundation slabs
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- A quick recce
