Prof. R. J. (Sam) Berry, born on 26th October 1934, died on 29th March 2018. He had a deep love of Orkney and its wildlife, environment and people, and this tribute was published in the Orkney Field Club Bulletin of 2019. He was...
Category - People Past & Present
A Toast to Peggie Gibson
Peggie Gibson was a much appreciated teacher in North Fara and Kirkwall and one of the now almost legendary group of Stromness Academy pupils whose end-of term trip on the tug Flying Kestrel in Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919 made...
The great cartographer: Murdoch Mackenzie
One of the great names in cartography is Murdoch Mackenzie, whose charts of Orkney waters in the...
Christian Robertson, Stromness shipping-agent and merchant
With the second edition of The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women soon to be published...
Bessie Millie: Stromness’s First Renewables Entrepreneur
The lunches of Orkney fare at the Peedie Kirk are among the highlights of the Festival each year...
Memories of Robert Shaw
Archie Bevan’s tribute to Robert Shaw was broadcast on BBC Radio Orkney in August 1978 following...
A Swedish Orcadian
Gunnie was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1941. Later Gunnie Moberg would say she would like to be...
Jim Robertson: maths teacher and musician
Among the people commemorated in the One O’Clock Toast at the Peedie Kirk this year was Jim...
Dark skies and bright vision
Among her many community activities in North Ronaldsay, Kathleen Scott coordinated events each year...
Courage and determination
The writer Ann Scott-Moncrieff was the subject of one of the One O’Clock Toasts in the 2015 Orkney...