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FREE Unkans FEBRUARY 2013 The newsletter of the Shetland Heritage and Culture Community Issue 36 Explore Shetland’s Norse Heritage with your GPS Once you’ve explored the sites, you can upload comments and images to the cache pages on geocaching.com, and share your experience with other geocachers. The pages also contain additional historical information about the site, and links to resources on www. thingsites.com. If you’re really lucky, you may even find one of 100 limited edition Thing Sites GeoTour trackables. These items each have their own special mission to complete, such as to travel around all of the Thing Sites GeoTour caches, or to travel further than the The Renwick family of Cuckron enjoy Geocaching. ©THING Project/Frank Bradford Vikings, but they need your help to get them on their way. Fans of Shetland’s Norse of the Northern Periphery Why not start your Thing Heritage now have a new way Programme funded THING Sites Geocaching adventure to explore some of the islands’ Project, and brings together by visiting www.geocaching. fascinating historic landscapes sites in Norway, Iceland, com/adventures/geotours/ using geocaching, an outdoor the Faroe Islands, Shetland, thingsites and downloading the treasure hunting game played Orkney, Highland Scotland and coordinates today? using a GPS or an app on a the Isle of Man to highlight our Lauren Doughton smartphone. Players seek shared cultural roots. Place Names Assistant hidden items by downloading For our Norse ancestors coordinates from www. the thing sites would have geocaching.com been a central location within A number of geocaches their landscape. Today the only have been hidden at thing sites indication we have that many throughout the North Atlantic of them existed is through Region, including 7 in Shetland, place names. The Thing Sites as part of the Thing Sites GeoTour encourages people to GeoTour. go out and explore their local The tour, which is the first landscapes, and think about of its’ kind outside of the US, how people may have used and Hiding a geocache in the Faroe Islands. has been developed as part experienced it in the past. ©THING Project/Frank Bradford Local Events Listings Visit For information on local events please visit www.shetland.org to view listings. To add your own event to this site please call 01595 989898 or www.shetlandamenity.org/unkans complete the online form at www.visit.shetland.org/submit-an-event to sign up for your electronic copy 2 Unkans Two ferries but it’s more than worth it! As with so many others, the Unst attractions of Unst; the new Heritage Heritage Centre sprang from the Centre and the Unst Boat Haven. enthusiasm of a small local History Group. The Boat Haven grew out of the In 1983 they organised an exhibition of old life-long love of Duncan Sandison for and ancient artefacts in the Baltasound Shetland boats and it was he who was Hall. Then, in 1986, were given the use instrumental in seeing it opened in 1994. of the old Mouat shop at Haroldswick to It now houses 20 boats representing a put objects on permanent display where wide range of fishing and sailing craft they were curated by Joan Mouat and from throughout Shetland and beyond, May Sutherland. With many generous these include a Ness yoal, Burra haaf boat, contributions the shop rapidly filled to sixern, a Norwegian ‘faering’ and a Faroe overflowing and became, for those of us boat. This is an ideal place to see them who were lucky enough to have visited it, a all together, demonstrating both their real-life Old Curiosity Shop. lineage and the great skill and ingenuity It soon became clear, however, that of Shetland’s boatbuilders in meeting the the old shop was not large enough nor demands of fishing and sailing in difficult Some of the textiles displayed at the Centre. exactly what was needed for the long and often dangerous waters. But the Boat lace making of Unst. Because of this term. So, when in 1997, the Haroldswick Haven is not just about the boats, there and the Centre’s link with today’s expert School closed the History Group seized is in addition an incredible collection of lace makers, people come from far and the opportunity. It was impossible for equipment used in the fishing industry wide, not only admire the craft but to such a small group of volunteers to find down the ages including written records of study it in its homeland. Unst, of course, the finance to purchase the building but its history. also boasts one of the most diverse and the Shetland Amenity Trust stepped in on But, to return to the Heritage Centre: unique ranges of geological outcrops for their behalf, bought the school and leased in addition to containing agricultural and its size, anywhere in the world! It is the it back to them. At the same time as the domestic artefacts from the past and site par excellence to see these rocks and move, the Unst Heritage Trust was formed access to local census figures, it has their clear effects on the landscape and which brought together the two heritage some wonderful examples of the unique vegetation. To help the visitor appreciate this the Centre has a wonderful collection of samples and explanatory maps. If you are one of those reluctant to take a child to a museum, have no fears of either site in Unst as both are family friendly. Last year there were over 3000 visitors to each and during the Hamefarin in 2010, 4000 visited the Boat Haven! These are amazing figures considering there are two ferries to take from Mainland. When the Shetland Amenity Trust longhouse is open, beside the lonship Skidbladner at Haroldswick, this will bring another substantial attraction to Unst, complementing the existing Centres and surely bring many more visitors to them. Both the Heritage Centre and the Boat Haven are accredited by Museum Galleries Scotland so you can be sure that the facilities and information are of the highest quality. You will be more than pleasantly surprised by your visit … take two ferries! A peerie visitor enjoying the Muckle Flugga boat. Shetland Heritage Association Your Paintings If you would like to see any of Shetland 8th– 24th February Museum’s paintings in person, contact Dr. Throughout the building we will be Christiansen at [email protected]. exhibiting a selection of the oil and acrylic paintings from our collection. This is part of Kevin Dagg a BBC lead initiative to highlight their online 23rd Feb – 31st March catalogue, ‘Your Paintings’ which encompasses ‘Surface Tension’ the entire UK national collection (www.bbc. An exhibition of paintings and sculpture co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/). which on first glance appear unrelated. The web site catalogue is made up of With this series of paintings produced paintings from thousands of museums and specifically for Shetland Museum and Archives other public institutions around the country. Kevin is concerned with the more subtle, ground Twelve other organisations from Shetland level aspects of the Shetland Biome. The focus participated in the project, and their paintings is on the lichen habitats, rock formations, local are also available. Dr. Christiansen says, ‘it’s fauna and the resultant colour combinations fun to explore the website, there are so many which elevate the everyday to the extraordinary. amazing images of Shetland. And there are In contrast the sculptures physically many little-known local artists represented, translate newspaper images of people caught whose work can now be seen by everyone. in the political spotlight. This is the human face Using the website is truly an easy way to of conflict, revealed through the painstakingly become familiar with the art of Shetland’. handcrafted nature of the process. Unkans 3 How Shetland won the war A bold title, I’ll grant you, but in the upcoming centenary commemorations for the First World War, we should recall our own crucial role in Britain’s epic struggle. Thousands of men served on sea and land away from our shores, but these very islands were vital to national strategy because of our geographical position. The Allies couldn’t win the war Edie Sutherland found a mysteri­ by combat on sea and land alone, and a ous object while playing at Brae crucial aim was to wreck their enemies’ in 1915; her father had seen such war economy. A blockade meant the things in Edinburgh, and told her it Central Powers couldn’t get supplies to Teacup from H.M.S. Digby, dredged up from Busta Voe. was an electric lightbulb. clothe, transport, equip and feed their own war machine, and thus be fatally which were more economical on coal than Muckle Roe. It was a huge operation, a feat weakened. The Royal Navy operated a regular warships, and could cover longer of logistics and organisation, with naval force, the 10th Cruiser Squadron, to distances. They were commissioned into and mercantile craft on the move around implement this blockade, and Shetland the Royal Navy, and most had Shetlanders the clock, protected by boom defences and was at the forefront because its forward in their crew. Although they were H.M. a gun battery to guard the approaches, base was here. ships, armed for combat, they still and daily patrols eliminated mines laid by Our colossal Navy had debarred German essentially resembled liners, and the larger enemy submarines. The command centre merchant ships from the North Atlantic, ones retained their original luxurious was at Busta, and the bay was set with but supplies could slip through on vessels fixtures.
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