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Going to Graemsay

Many years ago, for a child in Stromness the lighthouses of Graemsay were ‘Granny’s candles’. The island seemed a world away. Then one fine morning Uncle James collected us from the pier and soon we were weaving across the swirling [...]

July 3, 2020 Stories from the Islands

Copland’s Dock and Stanger’s Yard

(The new pier in Stromness, developed to serve Orkney’s growing marine renewables industry, is built on a site with a long history of industry – which indeed has been part of a long local tradition of responding to development opportunities, [...]

July 15, 2014 Summer Issue 2014