Pierhead

12/17/22 • 6 min

Voices of the past and the present weave an oral history of the town. This entertaining soundscape told by people of Stromness will lead you from the pier head to the cannon beyond Stromness Museum. In this second episode we visit the RNLI building to learn about the history of the lifeboat service, and drop into the Stromness Hotel to hear about its many uses over the last century. Narrator: Jake Watson Featured speakers in order of appearance: Ernest Marwick 1967 (Orkney Library & Archive) / Tom Wishart 1967 (Orkney Library & Archive) / Ian MacInnes & Eric Flett circa 1990 (BBC Radio Orkney) / Stewart Taylor 2011 / Gerry Meyer 2007 (Fortress Orkney) Music: 1. Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley ‘Luca’ / 2. Isla Wallace ‘Dreams of Orkney’ (Stromness Academy)

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South Pier

Voices of the past and the present weave an oral history of the town. This entertaining soundscape told by people of Stromness will lead you from the pier head to the cannon beyond Stromness Museum. In this first episode we start our journey at the South Pier. Find out how Stromness began, hear some fishing tales, visit Orkney Fisherman's Society and get on board the Hamnavoe ferry. Narrator: Bea Watson Featured speakers in order of appearance: Ingirid Morrison 2011 / Eric Flett & Ian MacInnes circa 1990 (BBC Radio Orkney) / Tom Wishart & Ernest Marwick 1967 (Orkney Library & Archive) / Walter Leask 2002 (Orkney Heritage) / George Sinclair 2011 / Stewart Crichton 2011 / Willie Mackay 2011 Music: 1. Sandy & Ally Windwick ‘Partans in his Creel’ / 2. Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley ‘Orcadia’, ‘Orkneyites’ / 3. Barbara Firth & Adrian Stewart ‘Partans in his Creel’ Track 1 & 3 courtesy of the Ernest Walker Marwick Sound Archive Collection 1960-75 Orkney Library & Archive

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Pier Arts Centre

Voices of the past and the present weave an oral history of the town. This entertaining soundscape told by people of Stromness will lead you from the pier head to the cannon beyond Stromness Museum. In this third episode we hear about the Hudson’s Bay Company, the Pier Arts Centre, artist Sylvia Wishart and the Stromness piers. Narrator: Bea Watson George Mackay Brown reads from ‘Tam’ 1967 / Eric Flett & Ian MacInnes circa 1990 (BBC Radio Orkney) / John Park 2011 / Isla Holloway 2011 / Ernest Marwick & Tom Wishart 1967 / Graham Bevan 2011 / Archie Bevan 2011 / Elizabeth Bevan 2011 Music: 1. Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley ‘Newark Bay’, ‘The Broonie O' Copinsay’ / 2. Isla Wallace ‘Uncle Ian's Reel’ (Stromness Academy) / 3. Sam Spence ‘Flying Home’ (Stromness Academy)