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January The Ba’ – The famous Uppies and Doonies rugby match starting from St. Magnus Cathedral – 1st Jan 2010 February 10th – 13th Feb – The Pirates of Penzance – Kirkwall Amateur Operatic Society March 15th March – Brown Trout season opens – Orkney trout Fishing Association. April 7th – 11th April – Orkney [...]
Tags: Amateur Operatic Society, Ba, Brown Trout, Brown Trout Season, Bruck, Ceilidh, Cricket Club, Cricket Clubs, Dance Association, Dance Events, Fishing Association, Half Marathon, Memories Of World War Ii, Midsummer Celebration, Norwegian Constitution, Orkney, Orkney Folk Festival, Orkney Golf Club, Orkney Rugby, Pirates, Ring Of Brodgar, Rugby, Rugby Club, Sanday Island, St Magnus Cathedral, St Magnus Festival, Stromness Golf Club, Stromness Hotel, Summer Exhibition, Traditional Dance, Trout, Trout Fishing, Uppies, World Heritage Site
The story of a storm raising witch is based upon historical fact and island myth. Janet Forsyth lived in Westray in the 17th century. In 1627, Janet dreamed that she saw her fisherman sweetheart, Benjamin Garrioch, perish at sea. The following day, Garrioch, and his colleagues set sail on their fishing expedition not heeding the [...]
Tags: 17th Century, Bays, Death Sentence, Existance, Fishing Expedition, Islander, Islanders, Janet Forsyth, Joining The Navy, Kirkwall, Marwick, Naval Uniform, November 11, Orkney, Premonition, Press Ganged, Small Boat, Solitary Existence, Spirited Away, St Magnus Cathedral, Stormy Weather, Thick Fog, Witch Hunts, Witchcraft, Zenith
This Kirkwall Ba’ Game is the traditional mass ball game also known as the Uppies and Doonies, played in the town’s streets on Christmas Day and new Year’s day, starting at 1300 GMT. The Uppies attempt to get a leather ball to a wall at the top of Kirkwall town whilst the Doonies do everything [...]
Tags: Ball Game, Charles Tait, Christmas Day, Earldom, Exact Origin, Folklore, Forerunner, Game History, Leather Ball, Legal Threat, Local Council, Magnus, Orkney Islands Council, Physical Game, Shop Windows, St Magnus Cathedral, Traditional Mass, Tyrant, Uppies, Vikings, Winning Team
On 14th October 1939, HMS Royal Oak was sunk by a German Torpedo in Scapa Flow, off the southern coast of Orkney. Scapa Flow had been a strategic Naval base since 1905, protecting Britain from German invasion via the eastern island inlets from the North Sea. With an area of about 156 square kilometres, it [...]
Tags: 70th Anniversary, Amazon, British Warships, Cerem, Cover Of Darkness, Eastern Approaches, Fuel Leaks, German Invasion, GüNther Prien, High Tide, Hms Belfast, Hms Pegasus, Hoxa Sound, Magnu, Moonless Night, Oil Slicks, Paint Store, Royal Navy, Sound 3, St Magnus Cathedral, Target, Torpedo Attack, Two Ships, U 47, U Boat, World War Ii, World Warii
Situated on a commanding peninsula with steep cliffs to one side and rolling fields to the other, is the Covenanters Memorial at Deerness on the mainland of Orkney. Made of brick and standing possibly 10m tall, the monument at Deerness is around 300m from where a boat full of covenanters sank during a storm. The [...]
Tags: 22nd August, American Colonies, Brick, Bridge, Brig, Caption, Charles Ii, Church Of Scotland, Coins, Covenanters, Crew Member, Deer Sound, Drinking Fountain, Episcopalianism, Executions, Fountain St, Granite Slab, Grey Granite, Kirkwall, Leith, Mainland, Male Prisoners, Memorial Plaque, Memorials, Memory, Monarch, Nearby Beaches, Orkney, Peninsular, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterians, Prisoners, Public Subscription, Public Water, Recess, Reformation, Rocks, Scottish Covenanters, Setting Sail, Seventeenth Century, Shipwreck, St Magnus Cathedral, Steep Cliffs, Stuart Kings, Taing, Water Fountain, Whigs, Yellow Sandstone
Arrive at St Margaret’s Hope on the Island of South Ronaldsay and head North on the A961 to Kirkwall. This drive will take you over the incredible four causeways linking the Orkney islands of South Ronaldsay, Burray, Lamb Holm and Glimps Holm. A total length of 1.5 miles (2.3km). The barriers were originally built in [...]
Tags: Africa Campaign, Balfour Beatty, Causeways, Churchill Barriers, Civil Engineer, Cover Of Darkness, Effort Works, First Lord Of The Admiralty, Gabions, Geneva Conventions, German U Boat, Glimps, Glimps Holm, GüNther Prien, High Tide, Lamb Holm, Naval Defence, Orkney Islands, Orkney Islands Scotland, Orkney Mainland, Prisoners Of War, Random Pattern, Royal Navy, Ships Booms, St Magnus Cathedral, Tawse, Tonne Blocks, Torpedo Attack, U 47, University Of Manchester, Winston Churchill, World War Ii, World War Ii In Europe, World War One
Over the last 35 years the Kirkwall Flower Arrangement Club has created floral displays in St. Magnus Cathedral in aid of the restoration fund. In this 50th year, the club looks back over the decades, highlighting some memorable aspects of each. Bel Drever, the outgoing Club President talks about the event and her three year [...]
Tags: 35 Years, Club President, Decades, Floral Displays, Flower Arrangement, Flower Arranging, Flower Club, Flower Festival, Memorable Aspects, Orkney, President Talks, Restoration Fund, Scottish Association, St Magnus Cathedral, Tenure
