Groatie Hoose, Kirkwall
May 3, 2010 by admin
Filed under Buildings & Architecture, Featured
Within the high walls at the rear of Tankerness House, the home of the Orkney Museum, is the unusual building called the Groatie Hoose.
HMS Royal Oak 70th Anniversary
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 [...]
