Peace's Orkney and Shetland Almanac and County Directory
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1884 (24th year of publication), p1-122 with Companion from p123-138
Companion Stories/Articles: The Castle of Yesnaby; A Visit to Foula Last Century; Homely Pies and Puddings; The Earl's Palace,
Kirkwall; An Orkney Wedding by John Malcolm; A Clerical Denunciation; A Bunch of Local Anecdotes
1885 (25th year of publication), p1-122 with Companion from p123-138 and Advertiser from p139-242
Companion Stories/Articles: Marriage and Wedding Feasts in Orkney by Walter Traill Dennison; Scenes in Sir Walter Scott's 'Pirate';
Kirkwall in the Olden Time - extracted from the Burgh Records - How Kirkwall Tolbooth was Kept, Peats Everywhere Clear the
'Causie', Expelling Vagrants, 'To Arms'; Odd Petitions to Kirkwall Magistrates; A Qualified Shetlander; Kirkwall Municipal Buildings -
New Town Hall.
1886 (26th year of publication), p1-122 with Companion from p123-138
Companion Stories/Articles: The Burgh by John Malcolm; The Death of Haco, poem by John Stuart Blackie; Fair Isle; Maxims of
Thrift; Scalloway; Birsay; Egilsay; Kindness to Animals; Omens; Sheep Marks in Orkney; Zetland Justice; Middlemen/Tacksman
System in Orkney; the Goodness of Providence.
1887 (27th year of publication), p1-122 with Companion from p123-138
Companion Stories/Articles: Tammie Torral's Thieving & How it was Cured by Walter Traill Dennison; The Norseman, poem by
Gerald Massey; the Brough of Quoy Ness, Sanday; Unst; Johnsmas in Shetland; A Shetland Epitaph - death by stupidity; Lerwick to
Symbister; Orkney Ministers and their Parishioners; The Old Orkney Ward-Fires; Foolish Men and Scolding Wives, translated from
the Norwegian by D. L. Braekstad.
1888 (28th year of publication), p1-122 with Companion from p123-138 and Advertiser from p139-234
Companion Stories/Articles: The Would-be Wedding of East Brough by Walter Traill Dennison; Old and Young Shetland; A
Shetlander's First Sight of Trees; New Masonic Buildings, Kirkwall; Orkney 'Stern Isles that Face the stormy North', poem; The Arms
of Kirkwall and Lerwick.
1889 (29th year of publication), p1-122 with Companion from p123-138
Companion Stories/Articles: Helen Waters by John Malcolm; Clerical Anecdotes; A Shetland Lochinver; The Signal Fires, poem by
Jessie M. E. Saxby; Lerwick Town Hall; Shetland Centenarians; Lord Ethyn; A Shetland 'Johnny Notions'; Northmavine, Shetland; The
Maiden of Norway, poem by James T Calder; Two Westray Witches (Jonet Drever and Katherine Bigland); Shetlanders and Scotsmen;
Freemasonry and Magic.
1890 - no editon for this year included.
1891 (31st year of publication), p1-122 with Companion from p125-138
Companion Stories/Articles: An Orcadian Hero (Major George Broadfoot); Placed to his Credit; A Reverend Dectective (Rev. John
Gerard, South Ronaldsay); Harold's Grave - a viking story; Tombstones in St Magnus Cathedral; Shetland Folklore; St Magnus Bay,
Shetland; The Gaugers Repulsed; Cod and Cod; How to Preserve Bees; How a Minister Encouraged Superstition; Washington Irving's
Grandfather; The Christenings, Shetland; The Sea-King, poem by Barry Cornwall.
TitlePeace's Orkney and Shetland Almanac and County Directory
Author
Place of publicationAlbert Street, Kirkwall
PublisherWilliam Peace & Son
Year of publication1884-1891
MaterialBook
Series titlePeace's Orkney and Shetland Almanac and County Directory
ISBNM0009854OR
NotesClass number: Orkney Room 914.1 YZ