This season we are offering the following tours:

• Creepy Kirkwall walk
• Creepy Stromness walk
• History tour of Kirkwall

All tours are available by arrangement. The price is £30.00 for a group (maximum 25)

We are also offering regular history walks in Stromness through our sister company, Stromness Tours.

These go throughout July and August at the following times – NO NEED TO BOOK!

Sunday                        2.00pm

Tuesday                      6.00pm

Wednesday               2.00pm

Price £7.00 adult, £5.00 senior, £3.00 child

The tour starts at the fountain in front of the Stromness Hotel and lasts about 1 hour 15 minutes.

Please contact info@stromnesstours.co.uk or phone 07759857298 for more details.

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.

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.