History – Rousay Remembered

Rousay Tales

Max Fletcher — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 15:46:44 +0000

Click on ‘Welcome to Rousay Tales’ below to access a series of six podcasts which take you around the island of Rousay, exploring life in the past and present. This podcast series was created using material from Orkney Library & Archive, Rousay Remembered, UHI Archaeology Institute and contemporary recordings made with the community of Rousay. Creative team: Produced by Kolekto…

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Robert C. Marwick

Max Fletcher — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:33:04 +0000

Robert Craigie Marwick It is about time I paid tribute to Robert Craigie Marwick – for it is he who got me started on delving into the history of Rousay and the folk who lived here in the past. Born in 1922, he was one of thirteen children born to John Gibson Marwick, Knarston, later Innister, and Anna Logie Craigie, Post Office, Hullion. Being an incomer I didn’t know him that well…

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Delivering the Post

Max Fletcher — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:08:01 +0000

The island’s main Post Office was at Hullion for many years, with smaller ones at Sourin and Wasbister. The mail used to be delivered by the post boat, which plied across Eynhallow Sound between Evie and Hullion pier. Each district had its own postman until the mid-1930s at which time a mail van was introduced to the island and one postman could cope with all the deliveries – except those in…

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Edwin Flaws of Wyre

Max Fletcher — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 09:58:05 +0000

Edwin Flaws of Wyre 1936 ~ 2018 The following eulogy was written by Ed Firth, Nedyar, and read out by him to those attending Edwin’s interment at the Brinian kirkyard on the afternoon of April 21st 2018. James Edwin Flaws was the son of Mansie Flaws of Heldie [Helziegetha] and Mollie of Horn [Hawn], and he was born at Horn in Wyre in 1936. He was aged 14 when he left the…

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Group Photos

Max Fletcher — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:26:25 +0000

[All photographs from the Tommy Gibson collection]…

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Merry Dancers

Max Fletcher — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 14:18:34 +0000

In Orkney we are lucky enough to witness the Aurora Borealis on frequent occasions. For many a year folk in Rousay have been gazing up at the heavens – marvelling at the coloured lights in the Northern sky. Here is a selection of photographs I have taken of the Merry Dancers over the last twenty years or so from various vantage points in Wasbister to illustrate the phenomenon.

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Motorbikes and Bicycles

Max Fletcher — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 13:35:11 +0000

Rousay folk on their favourite modes of transport. Edie Marwick was one of the first women in Rousay to own a motorbike. The model is an Edinburgh registration BSA S26 500cc, 3-speed manual gears, kick start, and chain-driven. Bought new it would have cost in the region of £50 – but a restored machine [without sidecar] went for £8,650.00 at auction in June 2017. Edie and her husband…

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Golf Course

Max Fletcher — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 12:41:48 +0000

ROUSAY GOLF COURSE Most folk have heard of ‘Golf Course Corner’, that 90-degree bend in the road almost at the junction of the Westside and Quandale. Tommy Gibson, Brinola, tells us of the origin of the Rousay Golf Club:- In the l920’s a golf club was formed in Rousay and a nine hole course was created in Inner Quandale. This was a very popular pastime with a large membership of…

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Field Names

Max Fletcher — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:19:54 +0000

THE FIELD NAMES OF ROUSAY WASBISTER 1. Knockha’ 2. Gorn 3. Hammer [Thanks to Alistair and Muriel Marwick, Innister, for these names] 4*. Longaness 5*. Kuiv 6*. Meeran 7*. Hill Park 8*. Berry Brae [All starred field names in this and subsequent images were supplied by a member of the Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre Community Council Local History Project…

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1864 Fowling Trip

Max Fletcher — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 16:20:06 +0000

A Fowling Excursion to Rousay in 1864 From the The Orkney Herald, Tuesday October 4 A FOWLING EXCURSION TO ROUSAY. – Rousay is the Hoy of the North Isles, rearing his steep ridges proudly above the waters, and presenting attractions in the way of wild scenery and commanding views of sea and shore, which cannot fail to be appreciated by every genuine lover of the picturesque. Hills…

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