The main World War 2 defence artillery battery for the Sound of Hoy was the Ness Battery. A few buildings remain. They have that vaguely Deco style of a lot of World War 2 fortifications. We missed the guided tour so didn’t get the full access. We’d only gone out for an evening stroll.

Shore Battery. Atlantic/Pentland Firth beyond:-

Graemsay and Hoy from Ness Battery:-

A spit of the Orkney mainland, a ness, juts down from Stromness towards Hoy. To defend the Sound of Hoy from the 1860s onwards artillery batteries were sited on the north shore of the Sound of Hoy.

We strolled down one evening not knowing there were remains still there. I suspect these are all World War 2 vintage.

Site of Volunteers Battery, Stromness:-

Nissen Hut, Volunteers Battery, Stromness. I supose they kept ammunition and such here. I suspect it’s now used by Stromness Golf Club:-

Gun Emplacement, Links Battery, Stromness, Hoy in background:-

Closer View, Gun Emplacement, Links Battery, Stromness:-

Searchlight Emplacement, Links Battery, Stromness:-

Reverse View Links Battery, Searchlight Emplacement. Mainland Orkney in background, island of Graemsay to right:-

Sound of Hoy and Hoy from Links Battery Searchlight Emplacement:-

Remains of Gun Batteries, Stromness Golf Course, in middle ground:-