Autumn & Winter 2009
October 13th, 2009
The regular tours have finished for the season. However, I am available for private tours or storytelling events!
Please contact me for more details.
Stromness is a town of narrow lanes, flagstone streets and salty smoky air.
Would you like to know more about Stromness?
For centuries this small jewel of a town has provided shelter for boats, ships and people and it retains much of the character of a bygone age.
Contact Dragon History to arrange guided tours of Stromness, Kirkwall and Orkney.
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Fran’s Facts
Peace Babies
July 26th, 2009
In 1918, to celebrate the end of hostilities in the First World War, Bassett’s sweet manufacturers brought out a new jellied sweet called Peace Babies. Production ceased during the Second World War, and when they were relaunched in 1953 after the end of rationing, they were renamed Jelly Babies.
Not an Orkney fact, but brought to mind after the death of Harry Patch, the last Tommy.
Grumpy Old Man?
February 2nd, 2009
Mount Everest was climbed before the Old Man of Hoy! This 450ft sea stack off the Orkney island of Hoy was scaled in 1966 by Chris Bonnington, Tom Patey and Rusty Baillie. It took three days to get to the top, and the wooden wedges they hammered in are still firmly in place. Edmund Hillary and Tezing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953.
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