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South Pier
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Voices of the past and the present weave an oral history of the town. This entertaining soundscape told by people of Stromness will lead you from the pier head to the cannon beyond Stromness Museum. In this first episode we start our journey at the South Pier. Find out how Stromness began, hear some fishing tales, visit Orkney Fisherman's Society and get on board the Hamnavoe ferry. Narrator: Bea Watson Featured speakers in order of appearance: Ingirid Morrison 2011 / Eric Flett & Ian MacInnes circa 1990 (BBC Radio Orkney) / Tom Wishart & Ernest Marwick 1967 (Orkney Library & Archive) / Walter Leask 2002 (Orkney Heritage) / George Sinclair 2011 / Stewart Crichton 2011 / Willie Mackay 2011 Music: 1. Sandy & Ally Windwick ‘Partans in his Creel’ / 2. Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley ‘Orcadia’, ‘Orkneyites’ / 3. Barbara Firth & Adrian Stewart ‘Partans in his Creel’ Track 1 & 3 courtesy of the Ernest Walker Marwick Sound Archive Collection 1960-75 Orkney Library & Archive
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