Harmsworth Park, Wick, is the home of Wick Academy FC who play in the Highland League.

The ground is situated towards the south of the town beside the A 99 road.

I photographed it during the close season hence the lack of goalposts.

From gate at north side:-

Fuller view from gate:-

From west south west, showing the Main Stand on the north side. You can see the pitch has an appreciable slope in two directions:-

Looking south east. Showing the covered enclosure:-

I spotted this War Memorial on the eastern side of Wick when we were returning from Orkney, so of course stopped to photograph it. It’s unusual in being topped by an urn.

Dedication – to the men of the Ackergill and Hempriggs Estate:-

Eastern aspect:-

Western aspect:-

Lybster is a village on the A 99 in Caithness about 13 miles south of Wick.

Its War Memorial is a granite obelisk situated on the east side of the road. Dedicated to “the men of Lybster and Swiney who fell in the Great European War and the Great World War”:-

Reverse of Lybster War Memorial. World War 2 dedication. Upper list is of World War 2 names, the lower is for the Great War:-

Close-up on names. The obelisk is aslo inscribed with the names of Great War battle scenes, Paschendaele, Beaumont Hamel, Ostend, Festubert, Vimy, Neuve Chapelle, Somme, Zeebrugge, Cambrai, Peronne, Jutland, Marne, Mons, Ypres, Loos.

On the wall behind the memorial is a plaque commemorating the village’s founder:-

Keiss is in Sutherland, Scotland, on the A99 between Wick and John O’Groats. The War Memorial stands a bit away from any houses in a square plot of land beside the road.

It is inscribed, “Keiss Quoad Sacra Parish. The dedication is “To the memory of the fallen in the Great War 1914-1919,” and towards the base, “Also 1939-1945,” below which are six names for that second conflict. You can also see here that flat, almost treeless, landscape of north-east Sutherland, which acts as a kind of preview for Orkney:-

View towards village, showing Great War names:-

View towards North Sea, showing Great War names:-

Wick’s War Memorial is situated by the main road into the town from the south, near the bridge over the Wick River.

Closer view. A figure of Victory on a stone pillar:-

Dedications. The Great War: “In honour of all those who suffered and in proud and grateful remembrance of the fallen sons of the Burgh of Wick who died for home and freedom in the Great War 1914-1919.”

World War 2: “Also in honoured and grateful remembrance of all those of this Burgh who gave their lives in the Second World War 1939-1945.”

Memorial Wall (right):-

Memorial Wall (left):-

HMS Jervis Bay was a merchant ship requisitioned by the Admiralty on the outbreak of the Second World War and converted to an armed merchant cruiser. She was sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer on 5/11/1940 while trying to draw fire onto itself to protect the convoy it was escorting.

This memorial plaque is on a wall in Wick town centre.

Nearby is a memorial to HMAV Isleford, a Royal Navy Auxiliary vessel wrecked with all hands in a blizzard in Wick Bay on 25/1/1942, in sight of the shore.

Bridge over the Wick River; on road into town just at edge of town centre:-

Bridge near Harbour:-

On the way up to Orkney in June (posts, passim) we had time to stop off in Wick, Sutherland.

It has some Art Deco buildings! (Well, styling anyway.)

Bank of Scotland:-

Detail:-

Minor deco style in De Vita’s:-

Another Bank. The TSB:-

A more modern building. It looked as if it was unfinished inside:-

Wick’s Wetherspoon’s is more traditional in construction:-

Wetherspoon’s usually names its pubs after a local person of repute. This plaque on a wall round the corner told of Bain’s accomplishments:-