Museum: North Isles Landscape Partnership

Sanday, Orkney

Sanday is one of the inhabited islands of Orkney that lies off the north coast of mainland Scotland.

Sanday Heritage Centre

The Heritage Centre is situated in Lady Village in the formal Temperance Hall and was opened in May 2014. The main areas of display are Natural…

Sanday Heritage Centre

The Heritage Centre is situated in Lady Village in the formal Temperance Hall and was opened in May 2014. The main areas of display are Natural…

Sanday Heritage Centre

The Heritage Centre is situated in Lady Village in the formal Temperance Hall and was opened in May 2014. The main areas of display are Natural…

Sanday Heritage Centre

The Heritage Centre is situated in Lady Village in the formal Temperance Hall and was opened in May 2014. The main areas of display are Natural…

B98

The B98 was in the Battle of Jutland in the First World War. Latterly it was using as the mail boat for the German Fleet interned at Scapa flow. then…

Croft, Sanday, Orkney

The Croft, whose inhabitants left in 1966, was taken over by the Heritage Group who, in 2011 started renovating the interior. The first image in of…

Croft, Sanday, Orkney

The Croft, whose inhabitants left in 1966, was taken over by the Heritage Group who, in 2011 started renovating the interior. The first image in of…

Burnt Mount, Sanday, Orkney

This is a reconstruction of the Burnt Mound which was re-excavated from the shore below Meur in the north of the island.

Brickie Hut / Cata Sand, Sanday, Orkney

This was taken in front of the Brickie Hut, a control room in World War II, for a dummy airfield on the Plain of Fidge. It over looks Cata Sand and…

Black Rock Jetty, Sanday, Orkney

The Black Rock Jetty was built to transport mail and passengers by boat to and from North Ronaldsay. With the onset of the plane it was no longer put…

Whitemill Bay, Sanday, Orkney

This image was taken on top of the ruined cairn at Whitemill Point showing part of the wreck the ‘Wanga’ which came ashore in 1939. The stretch of…

Startpoint Lighthouse

Film taken looking towards the tidal island of Start Point off Sanday. The first beacon was a masonry unlit tower. Then in 1806 a new lighthouse…

Stronsay is an island in Orkney, Scotland. It is known as Orkney's 'Island of Bays', owing to an irregular shape with miles of coastline, with three…

This seed fiddle which has been loaned to us was probably used in the 1950’s. It was so named after the fiddle- like action required to distribute…

This jacket is on display in the Heritage Centre once belonged to one of the Horwood ladies of Scar. The Horwoods owned the Westove Estate from the…