Within the high walls at the rear of Tankerness House, the home of the Orkney Museum, is the unusual building called the Groatie Hoose.Set as a focal point to the well manicured lawns and tended … [Read more...]
HMS Royal Oak 70th Anniversary
October 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
