Old Photographs South Ronaldsay Orkney Islands Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of South Ronaldsay, one of the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland. It is linked to the Orkney Mainland by the Churchill Barriers, running via Burray, Glimps Holm and Lamb Holm. St Margaret's Hope is the main village on South Ronaldsay, and is named either after Margaret, Maid of Norway, who may have died there, or Saint Margaret, Queen of Scotland, the wife of King Malcolm III. During the 19th century the island's economy benefited from the herring fishing industry. Tomison's Academy was founded by William Tomison, a native of the island who became Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada. The war memorial was by Alexander Carrick, born in 1882 in the small town of Musselburgh, just east of Edinburgh, he was one of Scotland's leading monumental sculptors of the early part of the 20th century. War memorials featuring his carved sculptures include Lochawe, Killin, Oban, St Margaret's Hope, Kinghorn, Newburgh and Auchtermuchty in Fife. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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