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This building is now the Kirkwall West End Hotel. [1] A new purpose built hospital in New Scapa Road in Kirkwall opened in 1927. [2] A Macmillan House ward for cancer patients had opened at the Eastbank Hospital in 1993; this was replaced by a Macmillan House ward in the Balfour Hospital in March 2000. [3]
14 Main Street, The West End Hotel, Including Railings 58°58′41″N 2°57′42″W / 58.97813°N 2.961794°W / 58.97813; -2.961794 ( 14 Main Street, The West End Hotel, Including
The hotel was owned by Mrs Mary Geddes, whose late husband had been a chemist in the town. The hotel had a bar and billiard room. Bar business was so good that she did not need to run the premises as a hotel and in 1892 decided to have the present Orkney Club building erected (just two doors away from the hotel) for the use of the members and ...
Set in 1976's Blackpool, The Hills of California takes place in the driest summer in 200 years, with beaches and hotels packed to capacity. Far from the tourist thoroughfares, the Webb Sisters cram into the guest house of their former home as their mother lies dying.
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The Pickaquoy Centre is home to the New Phoenix Cinema, which seats 247 people, as well as a children's play park, and an indoor soft play area known as Jungle World.The Picky Cafe and Arena Bar is situated in the middle of the Pickaquoy Centre.
Kirkwall, the capital of the islands, is on the isthmus between west Mainland and east Mainland, which historically enabled it to have highly active harbours facing in two directions for the southern and northern Orkney Islands; the southern one, Scapa Flow, is a large, calm and immediately ocean-accessible natural harbour.
Both Kirkwall (Old Norse: kirkjuvagr, church-bay) and St Ola may take their name from the church of St. Olaf, built about 1035 and the remains of which can be seen on Saint Olaf's Wynd in Kirkwall. Highland Park, the most northerly Scotch whisky distillery, is on the outskirts of Kirkwall.