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Harbour Street, The Kirkwall Hotel 58°59′04″N 2°57′32″W / 58.984527°N 2.958945°W / 58.984527; -2.958945 ( Harbour Street, The Kirkwall Category B
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]
Kirkwall (Scots: Kirkwa, Kirkwaa, or Kirkwal; Norn: Kirkavå) is the largest town in Orkney, an archipelago to the north of mainland Scotland.First mentioned in the Orkneyinga saga, it is today the location of the headquarters of the Orkney Islands Council and a transport hub with ferries to many locations. [5]
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 ...
The dramatic coastline of Hoy can be seen by visitors travelling to Orkney by ferry from the Scottish mainland. It has some of the highest sea cliffs in the UK at St John's Head, which reach 350 metres (1,150 ft). [1] The name Hoy comes from the Norse word Háey meaning "high island". [4]
Hoy, to the west, is the second largest of the Orkney Isles and Ward Hill at its northern end is the highest elevation in the archipelago. The Old Man of Hoy is a well-known seastack . Graemsay and Flotta are both linked by ferry to the Mainland and Hoy, and the latter is known for its large oil terminal.