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https://www.cupidoeu.org/omeka/files/original/172/908/IMG_20200907_140118_00_032.jpg 0 0 0 equirectangularpano false The Horne Room is our Reference area which holds a lot of records for Family History and former displays. Here we hold the Sanday Photographic material and Oral History archives. Sanday Heritage Centre pano_0 https://www.cupidoeu.org/omeka/files/original/172/909/IMG_20200907_140219_00_033.jpg 0 0 0 equirectangularpano false 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 History, (nature on land, links and shore), Archaeology, (Sanday ‘archaeologically has the best landscape in Orkney’), Farming, (Sanday, the granary of the North) and the Sea, (At the turn of the Tide).The most recent requisition is the Appiehouse Stone, found under a floor in a house in Lady Village. This is a Pictish/Christian Stone. Sanday Heritage Centre pano_1 https://www.cupidoeu.org/omeka/files/original/172/910/IMG_20200907_140347_00_034.jpg 0 0 0 equirectangularpano false Sanday Heritage Centre pano_2 https://www.cupidoeu.org/omeka/files/original/172/911/IMG_20200907_140749_00_039.jpg 0 0 0 equirectangularpano false In one corner there is a section on World War I. There is an area on Shipwrecks and our new display for 2020 was the board display of Scapa Flow and the Scuttling of the German Fleet. with the B98’s part in the Battle of Jutland. Sanday Heritage Centre pano_3 https://www.cupidoeu.org/omeka/files/original/172/912/IMG_20200908_094259_00_merged.jpg 0 0 0 equirectangularpano false 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 B98 arrived back in Orkney a day after the scuttling of the German fleet. it was boarded by the British and as it was being towed south it broke its mooring and came ashore in Lopnmess bay. B98 pano_4 https://www.cupidoeu.org/omeka/files/original/172/913/IMG_20200908_095721_00_merged.jpg 0 0 0 equirectangularpano false 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 the ‘But’ end of the Croft and the second image is of the ‘Ben’ end. The original flag stone floors were found when the concrete flooring was taken up. The furniture and household items were supplied by generous gifts from the island folk which enable the Croft to depict what it would have looked like in the 1900’s. Croft, Sanday, Orkney pano_5 https://www.cupidoeu.org/omeka/files/original/172/914/IMG_20200908_095830_00_merged.jpg 0 0 0 equirectangularpano false 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 the ‘But’ end of the Croft and the second image is of the ‘Ben’ end. The original flag stone floors were found when the concrete flooring was taken up. The furniture and household items were supplied by generous gifts from the island folk which enable the Croft to depict what it would have looked like in the 1900’s. Croft, Sanday, Orkney pano_6 https://www.cupidoeu.org/omeka/files/original/172/915/IMG_20200908_100139_00_merged.jpg 0 0 0 equirectangularpano false This is a reconstruction of the Burnt Mound which was re-excavated from the shore below Meur in the north of the island. Burnt Mount, Sanday, Orkney pano_7 https://www.cupidoeu.org/omeka/files/original/172/916/IMG_20200913_122004_00_merged.jpg 0 0 0 equirectangularpano false 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 onto to the sand dunes. Brickie Hut / Cata Sand, Sanday, Orkney pano_8 https://www.cupidoeu.org/omeka/files/original/172/918/IMG_20200914_114631_00_062.jpg 0 0 0 equirectangularpano false Sanday, Orkney pano_9 https://www.cupidoeu.org/omeka/files/original/172/917/IMG_20200914_113024_00_061.jpg 0 0 0 equirectangularpano false 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 to use and is now in a state of disrepair. Black Rock Jetty, Sanday, Orkney pano_10 https://www.cupidoeu.org/omeka/files/original/172/919/IMG_20200919_151646_00_merged.jpg 0 0 0 equirectangularpano false 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 water is the North Ronaldsay Firth with a glimpse of North Ronaldsay on the horizon. Whitemill Bay, Sanday, Orkney pano_11 https://www.cupidoeu.org/omeka/files/original/172/933/IMG_20200927_121811_00_merged.jpg 0 0 0 equirectangularpano false 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 with a revolving light was established. Start Point lighthouse was painted with its black and white vertical stripes around 1915. 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