Thanks Sigurd - hope to see it for myself in July Fiona (York UK) >From: "Sigurd Towrie" <sigurd@orkneyjar.com> >Reply-To: ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com >To: ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [<orcadia>] Hello & an Introduction >Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:26:10 -0000 > >On 13 February 2004 20:34, Fiona Pearson wrote: > > > While i'm here (!) - can anyone tell me the whereabouts of > > Nabon/Nabbon in Firth? From census listings i'm guessing it's around > > the > > middle of the > > Finstown to Kirkwall road, between "Rossmyre" and "Hardhill" (both > > marked on my OS map). My Sinclairs lived there in 1871/81. Is it > > still inhabited? > >Nabban is indeed between Rossmyre and Hardhill on the Old Finstown Road. >Follow the road from Rossmyre towards Kirkwall and Nabban is at the >first turn (left). It's on a notorious stretch of road that ices up >badly in the winter. > >If memory serves correct there's a new (wooden) house there now, but the >original is, I think, derelict. Don't quote me on that though ;o) > >-- >Sigurd Towrie >Blackhall - Kirbister - Stromness - Orkney >Heritage of Orkney: www.orkneyjar.com >Home: sigurd@orkneyjar.com >Work: sigurd.towrie@orcadian.co.uk > > >==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word >'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > _________________________________________________________________ Use MSN Messenger to send music and pics to your friends http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger