The lots including signed specialist books, original artworks, and a rare special edition Highland Park Whisky with the money raised going to support the work of The John Rae Society.
Two public events are planned to mark the 209th birthday of Orphir-born Arctic Explorer John Rae on Friday September 30th
Light northerly winds. Maximum temperature 15 °C.
His great hobby,however, appears to have been house building, for he built the mansion houses of Graemshall in Holm, Skaill in Sandwick, and Breckness in Stromness
“I asked what bones? My friend said to ask Malcolm MacRae!”
A Reader’s experience of her first visit to Orkney
“The place name Skaill is associated with old sites from the Norse period”
I had the idea that there were buildings there, before the ones we can see, now
I asked what bones? My friend said to ask Malcolm MacRae!
