Wikimedia Commons

File:Northern Constabulary - Longhope beat vehicle 1975.jpg

Original file ‎(3,071 × 2,024 pixels, file size: 1,009 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

edit
Description
English: VINTAGE NORTHERN CONSTABULARY: a couple of great shots of the Longhope (Orkney) Beat vehicle BMC Minivan NBS396M taken in 1975, just after Northern Constabulary was created (on 16.5.1975).

The vehicle would have been registered - in 1973/74 - to the PREVIOUS version of Northern Constabulary (Caithness-Orkney-Shetland). Note the van had a radio and wing mirrors - but NO blue light.

Longhope Beat - a one-officer station - covered the islands of South Walls and Hoy to the south and west of the Orkney Mainland, and the area was an especially busy place during both World Wars when the British Grand Fleet was based at Scapa Flow.

On 17 March 1969 the area suffered one of the worst tragedies in British lifeboat history when the Longhope lifeboat, T.G.B., capsized with the loss of all eight crew after answering a mayday call during severe storms.

Many thanks to JRW379 for the photos.
Date
Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/conner395/41115243902/
Author Dave Conner
Camera location58° 47′ 26.62″ N, 3° 13′ 07.14″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing

edit
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by conner395 at https://flickr.com/photos/91779914@N00/41115243902. It was reviewed on 21 June 2023 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

21 June 2023

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current05:58, 21 June 2023Thumbnail for version as of 05:58, 21 June 20233,071 × 2,024 (1,009 KB)Technetium 99m (talk | contribs)Uploaded a work by Dave Conner from https://www.flickr.com/photos/conner395/41115243902/ with UploadWizard

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Northern_Constabulary_-_Longhope_beat_vehicle_1975.jpg&oldid=895320475"