Orkney Image Library - Swimming Gala in Kirkwall Basin

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No: 184 Contributor: Orkney Archives Year: 1927 Area: Kirkwall

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Swimming Gala in Kirkwall Basin

Picture added on 09 July 2004

Related Sites: Kirkwall East Church

Comments:

Its a sad reflection on society that the Basin is too polluted now to safely use for a swimming gala

Added by Ross on 09 July 2004

See my comments re similar picture #243 of this event.

Added by Marion Mcleod on 31 October 2004

The Basin wasn't always very clean when we swam in it.

Added by M.Gibson on 03 July 2009

I mind hearing that my father Tommy Hourston was a regular swimmer at the Kirkwall basin and swam to Shapinsay regular back in the day.

Added by Neil Hourston on 15 April 2014