Thank you, Michael, for this interesting information much fodder for my research mill! yes, strathspey societies: we brought the mother-of-all to victoria in 1997 (they return in july 2005) and my outdated report is here: http://www.islandnet.com/~wji/sfo.html thanks again for providing such valuable firsthand information regards, bill, CYYJ (ICAO ID for victoria airport) http://www.islandnet.com/~wji/wji.html ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Clouston <mike@mikeclouston.co.uk> Date: Friday, November 19, 2004 8:27 am Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Wintry looking! > Bill Irvine wrote: > > >thanks, mike, for the links > >it's a good thing someone hung the red brawly on the tombstone at > kirkwall green or one would think it was a b&w camera > >can you name the kirk spire for us in the stromness views? > >it's piqued my interst for years (i even photographed it myself) > but have never researched it > >thnx > > > > > Hello Bill, > > The kirk spire belongs to what I knew as the "Free" or North Kirk - > now > Stromness Town Hall. > > When I was growing up in Stromness there were four Kirks - the UP > (United Presbyterian), St. Peter's Parish Church or "Old Kirk", > the Free > Kirk and the Episcopalian Church. > > St. Peter's is now Stromness Community Centre, the Free Kirk is, > as I > say, the Town Hall and the UP Kirk is now the Parish Church. The > "pisky" > (Episcopalian and in full communion with the Church of England) is > still > in use, so far as I know. > > There is also what we disparagingly called the "Tin Tabernacle" - > the > meeting place of the Plymouth Brethren opposite what is now the > Stromness Surgery. > > I was in the Town Hall (old Free Kirk) the year before last during > the > Folk Festival to hear the Orkney Strathspey and Reel Society. > Apart from > hanging some long curtains to hide the stained glass windows and > removing some of the pews, the building has not changed a bit. It > has > wonderful acoustics and is much appreciated by visiting musicians. > > -- > Mike Clouston > > > ==== 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 > >