Orkney

Lorna Lloyd reported an expensive abortive German raid over the Orkney islands in her war diary on 18th October 1939. You can read about it in the LornaL Blipfoto journal here, and listen to the account in Episode 3 of our podcast series.

Blipper Tweedy kindly sent us this image for our collection of modern photographs of the places that Lorna mentioned in her war diary between 1939 and 1941. Pictured is the the Wreck of the Jaunaita The boat was deliberately sunk as one of the ships blocking Scapa Flow during World War II. It was left here at Inganess some years later when its scrap value was deemed negligible. 

We are keen to add images of other Lorna-related places  to add to this journal. Please do take a look at our list and see if you can contribute by sending a picture to h.hall@napier.ac.uk. Thank you!