IN SEARCH OF DR GARVIE
ONLINE For fifteen years in the 1930s and 40s, Beatrice Garvie was the doctor on the island of North Ronaldsay. She was also a photographer, and captured the lives of the people in great detail during her time there; and she always gave her subjects copies of their photographs, not a common practice of the time. One of the earliest women doctors, she worked in India, London, Sheffield and Glasgow before moving to North Ronaldsay. On her death, Bessie Muir and Annie Scott asked if her albums and lantern slides could be