Stromness Hotel and Graham Fountain
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Stromness Hotel and Graham Fountain
Image: © Colin Smith Taken: 27 Jun 2007
The hotel was a Naval HQ in WW1 and the Military HQ for Orkney and Shetland in WW2. The hotel bar takes its name from the Flattie, the local flat-bottomed rowing boat, peculiar to Stromness. The fountain is named after Alexander Graham who won freedom for Stromness from Kirkwall taxation in 1743 - but bankrupted himself in the process.
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Image Location
Latitude
58.964006
Longitude
-3.297819