Stromness

The small town of Stromness on the Scottish island of Mainland ( Orkney ), with 2,150 inhabitants, is the second largest city in both the main island and the archipelago and one of the ferry ports ( the Lifeline service) to the Orkneys. It is elongated and pinched about 14 km west of the capital Kirkwall to Scapa Flow at the junction between the sea and a hill. Stromness is also called the " gray town by the sea" because of the color of its stone houses as Husum.

History

Their bloom reached the city, where all the streets were still interrupted by stairs in 1814, in the 17th century whaling. 1817 became Stromness town rights and was also base the Hudson's Bay Company, which was significantly involved in the development of North America. Later, they benefited from the boom of the herring and cod fisheries. As a port of last call was Stromness important port in the British Navy and British overseas expeditions starting point ( John Franklin and others).

Others

Today the city is the center of the event Orkney Jazz ( in April ), the Orkney Folk ( in May ) and the Orkney Beer Festival ( in August). The Stromness Shopping Week (July) is the largest festival in the archipelago. At the turn in Stromness and Kirkwall, the Ba'Games be played.

In the listed historic center of the city bears witness to the edge of the bank building with piers and warehouses and trading houses from the economic heyday of the port city. One of the buildings is the Stromness Museum to learn about the natural history of Orkney and the maritime past of the city.

The Pier Arts Centre houses the collection of Margaret Gardiner (1904-2005), who was friends with, among others, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson. Her works are a focus of the collection.

New Energy

Before Billia Croo, west of Stromness, is one of the first wave power plants. After several years of testing under laboratory conditions and upgrade to marketable output 2006, the Pelamis is led by the European Marine Energy Centre, an EU-funded research center at the University of the Highlands and Islands, now being tested under commercial conditions more years.

Stromness in literature and music

Stromness is Handlungsort by Herbert weather Auer's 2009 novel erschienenem Stromness. The British composer Peter Maxwell Davies has a holiday home on Hoy ( Orkney ) and devoted the city Farewell to Stromness. The composition was included in the Classic FM (UK) Hall of Fame in 2003.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • George Mackay Brown, The Bard of Orkney, writer and poet
  • John Gow (about 1698-1725 ), who grew up in Stromness and London pirate of executed

Attractions

  • Stromness Museum
  • Millards House
  • Warehouse
  • Fountain
  • Church Road
  • Victoria Street Church
  • Graham Place
  • Khyber Pass
  • Dundas Street
  • Buffer 's Close
  • Pier Arts Centre

Traffic

Ferry connections are made from Stromness to Scrabster on the Scottish mainland to the small island to the dock and Graemsay Moanes pier on the neighboring island of Hoy.

Grey city

Barbara Hepworth: Curved shape ( Trevalgan ), 1956

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