Leaving Orkney
Posted in Trips at 12:00 on 13 February 2023
On the trip back from St Margaret’s Hope to Scotland (which Orcadians, rather than ‘the mainland,’ call the nearest part of Britain – to them ‘the mainland’ is Orkney’s largest island) we passed the gun batteries on South Ronaldsay.
These are I think called the Hoxa Battery.
There were gun emplacements here in both World Wars to protect Scapa Flow. These remains have the look of World War two constructions.
In 2017 I photographed them from a bit further away.
Tags: First World War, Hoxa Battery, Orkney, Scapa Flow, Second World War, South Ronaldsay, St Margaret's Hope, the Great War, World War 1, World War 2, WW1, WW2, WWI, WWII
