Graham Place

Voices of the past and the present weave an oral history of the town. This entertaining soundscape told by people of Stromness will lead you from the pier head to the cannon beyond Stromness Museum. In this fifth episode we hear about Alexander Graham, Stockan's Oatcakes, Stromness Books & Prints and the stone beneath your feet. Narrator: Bea Watson Featured speakers in order of appearance: Bunty Mowat 2011 / May Stockan 2011 / Eric Flett & IanMacInnes circa 1990 (BBC Radio Orkney) / Tam McPhail 2011 / Adrian Harray 2011 / Ella Duncan & Bryce Scott 2011 / Edgar Ramsay 1976 (Orkney Library & Archive) / Ros Bryant 2011 Music: 1. Annabella Penny ‘Stromness Harbour’ (Stromness Academy) / 2. Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley ‘Miss Eilidh Shaw’, ‘Thourmires Trendy Treads’
Graham Place
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