Interior. Officers Quarters. View of specimen bedroom.

Description Interior. Officers Quarters. View of specimen bedroom.

Date 6/6/1996

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number D 3110

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 672418

Scope and Content Bedroom, World War II officers' quarters, Ness Battery, Stromness, Mainland, Orkney Islands In both World Wars coast batteries were built to protect the channels into Scapa Flow and Kirkwall Bay, where there was an important contraband control. The greatest concentrations of firepower were at the main southern and north-western entrances to the Flow, the latter covered by a series of coast batteries centred, in World War II, on Ness Battery at Stromness. This is a view of one of the twin-bedded rooms which make up the officers' sleeping quarters at Ness Battery. The beds and associated furnishings reflect post-1955 use by the Territorial Army but the general arrangements follow those which prevailed in wartime. Each bedroom was lit by a shuttered casement window of the type shown here (and described in image 670767) and heated by a stove. At the heart of the Orkney archipelago, Scapa Flow was the main fleet anchorage for the Royal Navy during both World Wars. Its vital importance led to the creation of one of the most concentrated defence networks in Britain. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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