Not a pretty site

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Not a pretty site by Derek Mayes as part of the Geograph project.

The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.

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Not a pretty site

Image: © Derek Mayes Taken: 24 Mar 2011

And not a nice sight either. There are quite a few places like this in Orkney. A mixture of wartime wreckage and local dumping, often made worse by small reclamation businesses being set up on site. Such sites are often dumping grounds for unserviceable vehicles.

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