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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]
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 ...
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 ]
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.
St Ola is a parish on Mainland, Orkney. It is in the centre of the island, east of the parish Firth and north of Holm . It contains the capital and largest town of the Orkney archipelago, Kirkwall .