A PhD history candidate at York University is looking for anyone who can share their Orkney gardening experience to shed light on the Hudson Bay Company fur trader's gardens. She is writing her …
Where in Deerness is this?
Can anybody in Orkney help decipher the place listing on a death certificate? The following is written as the place where the bodies were found of 2 of the crewmen of the SS Noss Head which …
The Ridgeland, Kirkwall
A heritage plaque on a fairly insignificant building on a Kirkwall street indicates the site of a 17th century Town Hall and Prison. On the corner of Albert Street and The Strynd, …
Stromness Parish church Barometer
Housed within a concrete and glass frame outside a church in Orkney, is a public barometer. Standing around 1m high and kept under lock and key the scientific equipment is an unusual sight to see …