Kirbuster Farm Museum (i)
Posted in Architecture, Bridges, History, Museums, Trips at 12:00 on 31 January 2023
On the way back to Stromness from Birsay we took a slight detour and passed Kirbuster Farm Museum. It being latish we saved a visit for a day or so later.
It’s one of the few attractions on Orkney’s mainland that isn’t a neolithic ruin. It’s a now disused farm in which two brothers had lived out their lives without modernising the place to 20th century standards.
The first thing you come across is an old kiln:-
Further on is the farm building:-
To the side is a path to the garden leading through this lovely swan necked arch:-
The garden is sheltered and so can harbour trees; a rare sight on Orkney:-
At the bottom of the garden is a burn going under a bridge whcih carries the main road past the farm:-
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