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Hoy Heritage Centre HOY KIRK ORKNEY

Enjoy the island stories and layers of Hoy heritage

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  • ABOUT
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    • OUR PROGRAMME
    • About us
    • Hoy Kirk
      • Renovation of Hoy Kirk
    • Contact
    • Community engagement
    • FUNDERS & SUPPORT
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  • Tales o Hoy
    • Intro
    • 1: Dark enchanted isle
    • 2: Rough road to Rackwick
    • 3: Hidden valley of light
    • 4: The man who was never a boy
    • 5: Many things to many folk
  • Social history
    • From Hoy to Hudson Bay and back
      • William Sinclair Ritch’s Autobiography
      • The spirit of adventure ran high in his blood
      • A Hoy Egg hunting Adventure
    • Hoy Films
    • Hoy sound archive
    • Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
    • Artists & Hoy
    • Hoy Express
    • Shipwrecks of Hoy
    • Stevie’s Boat
    • Photographic census
    • Rackwick family records
    • Folklore of Hoy
  • Natural History
    • Effy Everiss Natural History Library
    • Eagles
      • The changing fortunes of Eagles in Hoy
      • Baby-snatching Eagles
    • Birdlife on the Old Man
    • Wild Flowers in Hoy
    • James Sinclair The Botanist from the Bu
      • James Sinclair herbarium
      • In the footsteps of James Sinclair – audio walk
      • Laura Drever – The Bu
    • Hoy weather
      • Hoy clouds
  • Places
    • Hoy place names 1880
    • Old Man of Hoy
      • Climbing the Old Man of Hoy
      • Poetry of the Old Man of Hoy
      • Stitching up the Old Man
    • Dwarfie Stone
    • Hoy Archaeology reports
    • Hoy& Walls Wartime Trail
    • Rackwick
      • Rackwick Then & Now
      • Aerial photograph of Rackwick
    • Hoy Post Office
    • Jigsaws
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NEWS & EVENTS

  • A WINDOW ON HOY
  • doors open festival
  • The Land and the Stars this Friday
  • WE ARE HIRING
  • It’s our AGM in August
  • Historic Rackwick Ploughing Match
  • These walls have ears
  • FRI 01 AUG Our last Reels & Jigs of the season.
  • TOMORROW (FRIDAY) REELS & JIGS!
  • HOY ISLANDER TICKETS – ST MAGNUS FESTIVAL AT HOY KIRK

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