What better way to enjoy the journey over the Churchill Barriers in Orkney, than by motorbike.

The Churchill Barriers were constructed by Italian POW’s during World War II and now form an important road link between the southern Orkney islands of South Ronaldsay, Burray and Lamb Holm.

This video was taken using a GoPro HD camera attached to the helmet of a motorcycle rider on his Yamaha FJR1300.

His journey starts at Barrier number 4 which links the island of South Ronaldsay to the island of Burray.

To the right are clearly visible, the remains of one of the most complete and oldest sunken block ships, The Reginald.  Built in 1878 and sunk in Weddel Sound in 1915, the 930 ton 3 masted motor schooner is today used to store lobster creels.

From the Island of Burray, the short second barrier links to the small island of Glimps Holm and continues on to the second barrier to Lamb Holm where the stunning Italian Chapel built by the prisoners of war can be found.

The journey continues onto the first barrier which links to the southern part of the western mainland.

Turning left through St Mary’s the A961 follows the coastline of Scapa Flow toward Kirwall.Similar Posts:

• The Churchill Barriers
• Churchill Barriers under new ownership
• The Outer Islands
• Book review – Orkney’s Italian Chapel
• HMS Royal Oak 70th Anniversary

A painting by AR Woods, found in a box of junk at an auction in Canada, has arrived safely in Orkney as the hunt for the mystery Ness Battery artist continues.

A campaign to find more about a large mural at the Ness Battery in Orkney was launched in February.

Tower Bridge - by AR Woods

Since then the AR Woods mural has attracted attention from historical researchers around the world.

Global search

In July, thanks to an article on this website, Julian Branscombe, Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership Scheme (SFLPS) manager, was amazed to be contacted by Joan Hollander, of Toronto, Canada.

She had found a charming picture by AR Woods, and soon realised that this painting might be a vital clue to a very special story.

“I’d gotten the painting in a box lot and was first attracted to the frame poking out of the box,” she said.

“I saw it was solid, bird’s eye maple and that made my curiosity jump.

“Someone, obviously put thought and care into a painting, to frame it so solidly.  And I was also intrigued by the subject matter.

The oil painting features Tower Bridge, London and is thought to be by Gravesend-born artist, Albert John Rycraft Woods, who signed all his paintings ‘AR Woods’.

AR Woods in Orkney

Joan has gifted the painting found in Canada to the people of Orkney.

Julian said: “When the package arrived from Joan, I was just overcome with emotion. It feels so precious to be able to hold it.

“Now that we’ve got it, we are really hoping that it will spur someone to come forward with recollections of AR Woods, so we can find out exactly why he came to Orkney in WWII.

“However, we still need to establish the link between this artist and Orkney.”

Mr Branscombe added that the generous gift of this painting encourages his team to take the search to London, to see if there are any living relatives, or archive records, which indicate why this piermaster in his sixties might have come to Orkney in World War II.

Could the same AR Woods be responsible for the mural in Orkney and the painting of Tower Bridge?

Second painting found

The painting found in Canada is one of two that have come to light since the search was launched earlier this year.

A Brighton-based television script-writer, James Payne, also took up the challenge to find AR Woods.

He discovered a number of records of an AR Woods amateur painter, including a description of his painting at the 1932 Port of London Authority staff show as being “particularly noteworthy” (published that year in an edition of art magazine, The Studio).

James went on to find that an AR Woods painting of the Pool of London, his workplace as piermaster, was available and soon it was also on its way to Orkney.

AR Woods on display in Orkney

AR Woods was born in Gravesend in 1876 or 1877, and after a life at sea he worked for the Port of London Authority in the 1930s, through until his retirement in 1947.

Both of the known AR Woods paintings will be on public display at the Public Talk on Ness Battery, Past, Present & Future, which is being held in the Lecture Theatre of Stromness Academy on Thursday 8 December.

The talk starts at 7.30pm with military historian Geoffrey Stell speaking on Ness Battery: Defending Hoy Sound in Two World Wars.

The evening is free, and all are welcome – but come early to see the paintings.

The lecture theatre will be open from 7pm.

Do you know the history of AR Woods?

If you think you can help in the quest for more information about Mr Woods and how he came to be in Orkney please get in touch via our contact form or via the comments area below.Similar Posts:

• Painting by A.R. Woods found
• In search of A R Woods
• Ness of Brodgar Neolithic figurine
• Stromness Parish church Barometer
• Batty goings on in Orkney

The long term health of the Papdale Woods is being boosted with help from Pupils of Kirkwall Grammar Sschool.

Assisted by the Orkney Woodlands Project, a group of S3 pupils will be planting around 50 young trees including sycamore, beech, oak, elm, holly and hazel.

Pupils at KGS show off their handywork at the Papdale tree planting project

This will extend the lifespan of the wood and increase its diversity.

The new trees and species will gradually become established to replace existing mature trees when they finally come to end of their natural lifespan.

Kirkwall East Councillor Steven Heddle who attended the first planting session said: “It’s good to see work done to help the woods thrive for further generations to enjoy, and great to see the enthusiasm and effort shown by these young members of the community. I am sure they will remember the trees that they plant, and enjoy the opportunity in the future to tell their grandchildren about it.”

Ronnie Bruce, Project Director for Morrison Construction said: “We are delighted to support today’s planting initiative organised by Orkney Woodland Project who carry out a lot of good work in the local community to conserve and enhance our landscape.

“The range of species of young trees and shrubs being planted will add to the overall diversity within the Papdale Woods.

“Hopefully the children who have been planting with us will find it rewarding not just from their efforts today but in the future as they watch these saplings develop into mature trees over the years.”Similar Posts:

• In search of A R Woods
• Painting by AR Woods found in Canada arrives in Orkney
• Orkney nature project moves forward
• Dennis Head Old Beacon restoration boost
• Painting by A.R. Woods found

A winter exhibition opening this month will celebrate Stromness Museum’s roots as the Orkney Natural History Society. ‘James Sinclair, the Botanist from the Bu’ celebrates the life a Hoy man whose love of plants took him from the Bu to Borneo.

James Sinclair Orkney Botanist

Exhibition launch

The exhibition will be launched at Stromness Museum with an evening of informal talks. Bea Watson will read from her highly commended Fereday project on her great-great uncle James Sinclair. John Crossley, Orkney Plant Recorder, will give an overview of the attraction of Hoy for plant-lovers in his illustrated talk ‘The island of Hoy: a great place for plants and botanists’.

James Sinclair wrote the chapter on Orkney Flora in the New Orkney Book. His interest in plants developed early, when he was a schoolboy, with his interest being encouraged by the Orkney botanist Henry Halcro Johnston. James discovered a number of plants which were new to Orkney.

He went on to Edinburgh University in 1932 graduating with a degree with honours in Botany. James then studied to become a teacher, teaching in Stronsay and Kirkwall. He collected plant specimens including algae, mosses and ferns throughout Orkney and by 1937 he had collected over 500 species and scores of varieties.

Royal Air Force

He joined the RAF in 1941. James made a collection of specimens of local plants in Burma during the war in Burma. After the war he joined the staff of Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden, then moving to Singapore to take up post of curator of the Herbarium there. He lived and worked in Singapore for nearly 20 years undertaking collecting expeditions in various parts of the Malay Peninsula also to Sarawak, Sabah and the Philippines. Characterised by his intense attention to his work, James excelled in botany becoming an authority on the custard apple and nutmeg families.

Although work took him abroad and he enjoyed his travels, his heart was in his native Hoy, and he intended to settle there after his retirement. Sadly, ill-health brought him home early. James Sinclair, born at the Bu, Hoy in 1913, died in 1968 and is buried in the Hoy churchyard.

This exhibition travels from the Hoy Kirk where it was shown as the first exhibition of the Hoy Heritage project. The papers of James Sinclair will be part of the Hoy Heritage digital archive.

On show for the first time is an artwork by Orkney artist Laura Drever, inspired by the walk ‘In the footsteps of James Sinclair’ which launched the exhibition in Hoy in July.

The exhibition launch, with talks, takes place on Friday 11 November at 7:30pm at Stromness Museum – all welcome. The exhibition will run until March 2012. Museum hours are Monday to Saturday 11am to 3:30pm.

Stromness Museum

If you want a glimpse into Orkney’s Maritime Past and Natural History, then Stromness Museum is a must. Since 1837, the museum has amassed a unique and fascinating collection, which has something for everyone.

The James Sinclair project is part of the Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership Scheme, supported by the Scottish Government and the European Community Orkney LEADER 2007-2013 Programme, and also by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership Scheme will spend around £2.2 million over three years on 48 projects promoting and supporting the heritage – wildlife, landscape, cultural heritage, history and archaeology – in and around Scapa Flow and the South Isles of Orkney. The scheme has received £1.3 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund, with further support from Orkney Islands Council, the European Union, Historic Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, the RSPB, trusts and private donations.Similar Posts:

• Batty goings on in Orkney
• In search of A R Woods
• Royal Australian Navy to visit Scapa Flow
• Tankerness House, Kirkwall
• HMS Royal Oak 70th Anniversary

The Royal Australian Navy are to present Orkney with a picture of HMAS Australia leading the surrendered German fleet into Scapa Flow in 1918. This visit forms part of the Royal Australian Navy centenary year events.

Scapa Flow, Orkney

Visitors from RAN include renowned Naval historian and Director of RAN’s Strategic and Historical Studies, Dr David Stevens, who has been commissioned to write a history of the RAN in the UK, and Commander Henri Nord-Thomson. Also visiting is retired Royal Navy Commander David Hobbs.

Ceremony

Councillor Eoin Scott will formally accept the gift to the Orkney public at a ceremony and public lecture by the three visitors on the connections between the history of the Australian Navy, Scapa Flow and Orkney in general, in the St Magnus Centre on Tuesday October 4 at 7.30pm.

Speaking ahead of the visit, Councillor Scott said: “Scapa Flow was at the heart of the allied war effort in WWI and II, and many nations played a vital role, including the Australians. The HMAS Sydney’s rescue boats were first to reach the stricken HMS Vanguard on 17 July 1917 following a massive internal explosion killing all but two on board, and HMAS Australia led one of two columns of allied ships surrounding the surrendered German High Sea Fleet into Scapa Flow on 21 November 1918.

“We are pleased to host this important visit which will help serve the memory of those who have served and died here in Orkney and stimulate interest in our rich wartime history.”

The group will be arriving in Orkney on the Pentalina, sailing into Scapa Flow past Hoxa and Stanger Head, affording a good first view of Scapa Flow. The trip will include a visit to The Royal Oak and Vanguard, on which two Australian sailors died, and the laying of a wreath at Lyness Cemetery.

Further information

Royal Australian Navy – Find out more about their 2011 Centenary celebrations.

HMS Royal Oak – 70th Anniversary article

Blockade Ship – Download your own desktop wallpaper blockade shipSimilar Posts:

• HMS Royal Oak 70th Anniversary
• The Churchill Barriers
• In search of A R Woods
• Visit the Mull Head visitor centre
• Orkney Botanist Exhibition at Stromness Museum

A plaque remembering the crew of the Rachel in 1786 has been unveiled in the Faroe Islands. Council Convener Stephen Hagan travelled to the Faroe Islandsto unveil a memorial plaque to twenty sailors from Stromness lost in a wreck off the islands in 1786.

Unveiling of the Plaque in the Faroe Islands

The plaque, presented on behalf of Stromness Community Council at a ceremony on Sunday (August 29), is in memory of William Melvin and 19 of his crew of the Stromness seal catcher ‘Rachel’, which was wrecked off the island of Svinoy on November 27, 1786.

Also present at the ceremony was the Mayor of Svinoy and Klaksvik, Gunva vio Keldu.

The ‘Rachel’ was sheltering from a storm in the bay of Svinoy, but its anchor failed to hold.  Of the 23 men on board, only three were rescued and subsequently cared for by the people of Svinoy.

Those who were killed in the tragedy were buried in the village.

Chair of Stromness Community Council, George Argo, said: “When the Stromness Community Council were first told about this tragedy we agreed it would be a fitting tribute to erect a plaque in the Faroe Islands in memory of those brave Stromness sailors who lost their lives there. “The motto of the Stromness Community Council is “Per Mare” which means by the sea.

Our community has always had a close connection with the sea and many of our town’s folk have made their living from it over the years with some succumbing to its mercies. “This is a fitting reminder of a crew who perished far from home many years ago and we are delighted that our Island Convener Stephen Hagan could unveil it on our behalf.”

While in the Faroe Islands, the Convener will also attend the North Atlantic Conference, which will consider a number of key issues interest to Orkney including renewables and the exporting of local produce. Councillor Hagan said:

“I am pleased to have the opportunity to unveil this memorial to the Orcadians who died in this long ago tragedy – and to remember the care provided by the Faroese for those who survived”.

“That reflects the close ties between island communities. We have always had much in common and many contemporary areas of shared concern will be discussed at this important conference.”

The following is from the Statistical Account of Orkney 1795 – 1798, United Parishes of Sandwick and Stromness, by Rev. William Clouston;

It was usual for a sloop to go once a year, about Martinmas, to the small isle or rock of Soulsketrry (sic), which lies W.N.W about 10 leagues distant, and there kill seals, which resort to that rock in great numbers.  The surge is so great around that rock, that it often happened, they could not effect a landing; or, if the men were landed, they, and the seals, which they killed, could not be got off but with great difficulty, and considerable risk.  In November 1786, a sloop upon this adventure, from the village of Stromness, was driven by tempestuous weather to the North Faro (sic) Isles, and there wrecked with 22 men aboard, 3 of whom were saved, and 19 perished.  Since that fatal accident, this perilous fishing had been abandoned. Similar Posts:

• Vote on your favourite Orkney experience
• Orkney Botanist Exhibition at Stromness Museum
• Fresson Cairn, Kirkwall
• What’s on 2010
• The Churchill Barriers

It is often strange how and where you come across references to places or people.

North Orkney 290 miles from Haltwhistle

Standing proud in a north of England town is a fingerpost, celebrating that north Orkney is only 290 miles away.

The town in question in called Haltwhistle and is situated about a third of the way between Carlisle and Newcastle, just off the A69 in Northumberland.

Haltwhistle boasts that it is the centre of Britain. But this no doubt this depends on where you measure to and from.

The market square in Haltwhistle

With Hadrian’s Wall being only three miles away the area is popular with tourists, especially during the peak summer months.

The town is also popular with walkers and cyclists as many cross country routes, such as the Route 72 cycle way, pass through the area.

In the centre of the town in the old market area is a circular 1m wide bronze disc embedded into the stone flagged pavement.

It  contains images of the surrounding area and reflects a number of interpretation panels to be found around the town.

This sign made us wonder how many walkers, cyclists or just general holiday makers thought of going to Orkney as a result of seeing this sign.

Let us know your story via the comments area below.

 Similar Posts:

• Visit the Mull Head visitor centre
• Standing stones of Stenness
• Stenness reveals new archaeology
• North Ronaldsay Sheep
• Camping and Hostels in Orkney

An English Heritage blue plaque has been unvelied at 4 Lower Addison Gardens, Holland Park, London, is outside where John Rae, the Arctic explorer lived for 24 years, until his death in 1893.

English Heritage blue plaque for Arctic explorer John Rae. Pic English Heritage

The plaque was unveiled by bushcraft and survival expert Ray Mears.

John Rae was largely an unsung hero of Arctic exploration during his lifetime, and only relatively recently has his contribution to modern survivalist techniques been fully appreciated.

His expeditions in the Canadian Arctic saw him cover a remarkable 13,000 miles by boat and on foot and survey more than 1,700 miles of new coastline, filling in some of the last gaps on the world map.

As the twentieth-century explorer Vilhjalmur Steffanson noted, Rae far outdid his contemporaries “in miles, speed and comfort” and was, in exploration terms, “as new as Darwin”.

Rae was notable for having befriended the Inuit and used their survival techniques; they called him “Aglooka” meaning “he who takes long strides”.

Rae also identified the only north-west passage around America that is navigable without icebreakers, thereby signposting the end to a centuries-long quest. At the time, however, his having ‘gone native’ was viewed with suspicion, and he was unfairly traduced as the bearer of bad news about the grim fate of Sir John Franklin’s expedition.

Orkney links

Rae was born in Orkney in 1813 and studied medicine at Edinburgh before being appointed surgeon aboard the Hudson Bay Company ship Prince of Wales.

From 1834 he served as surgeon at Moose Factory, the Company’s post on James Bay, where he treated the local population as well as Company men. Having learned the rudiments of surveying, Rae was chosen to lead an expedition to survey of the northern coastline of North America in 1846-67.

More than 600 miles of Arctic shoreline were mapped; the expedition was also significant for its unprecedented success in living off the land through an Arctic winter, which Rae later described in his Narrative of an expedition to the shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847 (1850).

In search of the Northwest passage

The writer R.M. Ballantyne encountered Rae on this journey, and recalled him as “very muscular and active, full of animal spirits” and as possessing “a fine intellectual countenance”.

Arctic exploration was one of the biggest challenges of the age, and one of the most dangerous: it is to Rae’s credit that he lost just one man in his entire career.

By 1848 concern was growing as to the fate of Sir John Franklin and his expedition, who had set off to find the Northwest Passage three years earlier.

In 1854 Rae, who had joined two earlier search parties, encountered a party of Inuit who, through interpreters, told him of a group of Europeans who had starved to death, and produced artefacts that showed beyond reasonable doubt they were describing the Franklin expedition.

Aware that others were looking for the expedition in completely the wrong place, Rae hurried back to London and made a full report to the Admiralty, which included the Inuit’s harrowing accounts of evidence of cannibalism among the starving men.

Much to Rae’s dismay, this report was made public; it was met with hostile incredulity, not least from Franklin’s widow, Lady Jane Franklin, who memorably described Rae as “hairy and disagreeable”.

Even Charles Dickens waded in with criticism, and Rae was accused of returning only for the £10,000 reward on offer and derided for accepting the word of Inuit “savages”.

He almost certainly knew nothing of the reward, which he shared with his men, and thereupon retired from exploration in 1856.

Recent forensic work on the Franklin expedition appears to have vindicated Rae and his Inuit informers.

From 1857 to 1859 Rae lived in Ontario and married Catherine Thompson in 1860.

Retirement

They afterwards sailed to England and lived mostly in London thereafter, though they continued to visit both Orkney and Canada.

In retirement, Rae lectured extensively and was the author of some 30 articles relating to Arctic exploration, survival, flora, fauna and anthropology.

Elected to the Royal Geographical Societyin 1880, Rae gave papers to numerous learned institutions and served on the British Association for the Advancement of Science’s research committee on ‘permanently frozen soil’, or permafrost.

He died of an aneurism at his London home in 1893 and was buried in Orkney.

The navigable passage he identified through the Canadian Arctic is now named the Rae Strait; a plaque marks the approximate site of its discovery.

John Rae is remembered in St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney

Rae also has a plaque in Hamilton, Ontario, and fundraising is underway for the rescue and restoration of his Orkney ancestral home, the Hall of Clestrain, which is grade A listed (in the Scottish statutory list) but presently in a state of severe dereliction.

Number 4 Lower Addison Gardens, originally known as 2 Addison Gardens South, is the only surviving London address with a strong and proven association with John Rae.

The three-storey terraced house dates from very shortly before the Raes moved in there in 1869; the road was only half complete when they did so.

For an Arctic explorer from the Orkneys, London may not seem the most obvious place to retire, but he relished London and its connections to intellectual life.

After his treks in the Arctic, Holland Park was just a short stroll away for Rae from the learned institutions at which he lectured.

Rae was also a good shot and belonged to the London Scottish Volunteer regiment. Howard Spencer, English Heritage historian added: “When Roald Amundsen sailed the north-west route around America in 1903-06 he readily acknowledged his debt to Rae as a surveyor and a survivalist.

Rae paved the way for the explorers who walked in his footsteps and learned from the strong connection he forged with the land and its indigenous people.”Similar Posts:

• Dr John Rae, Explorer
• Login’s Well – Stromness, Orkney
• St. Magnus Cathedral
• Groatie Hoose, Kirkwall
• Fur Trader’s Gardens

A new eight mile circular walking trail has opened on Flotta, Orkney, Scotland.

The end of the trail at Stanger Head. Pic Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership

The Flotta Trail takes in an array of wartime archaeology including the Naval Cinema and the Port War Signal Station, as well as the moorland of West Hill and the dramatic scenery of Stanger Head.

The trail starts at the pier, runs along the coast and then returns along the island’s lanes.

Funding has been received for the Flotta Trail from Orkney Islands Council, the European Regional Development Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

In addition, Talisman Energy match-funded the interpretation panels and path work. A complementary leaflet, showcasing the range of interest to be found on the island – including the Flotta Trail – has also just been produced by the Flotta Partnership.

This new leaflet is now widely available, including at tourist information offices and the SFLPS office in Stromness.Similar Posts:

• Maeshow Project Receives £1.4m
• Dennis Head Old Beacon restoration boost
• In search of A R Woods
• Orkney Botanist Exhibition at Stromness Museum
• Vote on your favourite Orkney experience

Joan has been in touch, from Ontario in Canada, with details of a painting she thinks may be by the same painter as the mural at the Ness Gun Battery in Orkney.

Tower Bridge - by AR Woods

You may remember that towards the start of 2011, a worldwide search was launched to find more information about a World War II mural in Orkney.

Depicting rural England and painted on a mess hall wall, it is believed  to be a reminder of home and is signed AR Woods.

Also signed by AR Woods is this picture of Tower Bridge in London. Joan wonders if this could have been painted by the same artist.

Finding the Tower Bridge painting

Joan moved to Ontario, Canada, from the US, a few years ago.

Being a purveyor of fine and not so fine used goods, she began attending auctions.

At a small farm auction, she purchased the Tower Bridge painting,  initially for the frame and not for the painting.

AR Woods signature on the painting of Tower Bridge

Joan said: “The artist didn’t look like he/she had formal training at all, but clearly was fascinated with ships/boats”.

The signature AR Woods can be found on the bottom left hand side.

Similar painting style

Having a university degree in art and having studied art history, Joan thinks that the mural and the Tower Bridge paintings have been painted in a similar style.

One final comment

Any relationship between the paintings can not at this time be proved. However, having two painters with exactly the same name must be quite unusual.

If it helps any readers, Joan adds that written in pencil on the bottom of the inside of the frame is the following: ’7 BW 1949′.  She has no idea to what this refers or what it could mean.

Further information

BBC News – Search to find Ness Battery artist

Island Blogging – Inside the Mess Hall

UPDATE – 20:17 BST – 3 July 2011

Since posting the article a few hours ago we have had a lot of interest from the internet and Twitter.

We have become aware of an article posted on a website called Mercantile Marine that sets out a little bit of background to the Orkney AR Woods.

This suggests that AR Woods was connected to the River Thames, and so could indeed be the same as the Orkney painter. However, little is know as to how he came to be in the north of Scotland.

If you can add to the story then please use the comments area below or via the contact us form

Here is the article
- Albert John Rycraft Wood a.k.a A.R. Woods – WWII service? - from user Ness Battery

We are now fairly certain that this is the same man as the author of the autobiography “I Guarded The Waterfront” published in 1942. Different editions have him as A.P.Woods or A.R.Woods.

Here is a summary of what we know.

A.R.J. Wood b. Gravesend 1877

Descended from a long line of Thames watermen, he was a piermaster for the Port of London Authority, after serving in the Merchant Navy on ships including the Ophir.

He enlisted in a volunteer regiment and became a TA machine gun instructor while still working as a piermaster in WWI.

Looking for help finding out about possible service during WWII which might have taken him to Scapa Flow and the Ness Battery. I wonder if he might have had something to do with any of the vessels, floating cranes, barges etc which we know originated on the Thames and ended up in Orkney.

He makes no mention of service during the second war, but we have to bear in mind his autobiography was written no later than 1942 – and we do not have a date for the mural, so still possible he saw service later than that. Also, he may not have been at liberty to refer to his service.

I have found many Albert Wood[s] from various sources but none quite match.

If you can add to the story then please use the comments area below or via the contact us form

UPDATE – 14:03 BST Mon 4 July 2011

We have just received the following note from the Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership Scheme

This is so exciting. This is certainly by the same AR Woods that is our prime candidate for being painter of the Ness Battery mural.

The signature of this work is near-identical to that of the other painting by the AR Woods that worked for the Port of London Authority until 1947, and the painting is of a view he knew very well – he was Piermaster at Tower Pier in London.

We have not yet definitively linked him with Orkney during WWII, but seeing another work by this fine amateur artist takes us a step closer to solving this mystery.

It is wonderful to get this help from Canada! Thank you ever so much.

Julian Branscombe, Manager, Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership Scheme

julian.branscombe@orkney.gov.uk

Similar Posts:

• Painting by AR Woods found in Canada arrives in Orkney
• In search of A R Woods
• Stromness ‘Liberty’ Cannon
• Royal Australian Navy to visit Scapa Flow
• Orkney’s Italian Chapel