Papa Stronsay, Fish-curing Station
Herring Curing Station (19th Century), Pier(S) (20th Century)
Site Name Papa Stronsay, Fish-curing Station
Classification Herring Curing Station (19th Century), Pier(S) (20th Century)
Canmore ID 3298
Site Number HY62NE 20
NGR HY 6650 2915
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Stronsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY62NE 20 6650 2915.
Visible on air photograph (OS 69/150/039, 042, 134-5, flown 1969).
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Associated with the herring fishery at Whitehall, extensive remains of a former fishing and curing station. The present pier below the farmhouse is one of the original piers, extended in the 1950's; W from here there were several iron piers, mostly removed, projecting from the stone built sea-wall and each owned by a curer. Some curing sheds still stand, together with workers accommodation, near head of main pier, with remains of double-track tramway ("the Papa Stronsay Railway") used for conveying boxes and barrels to and from the ships. The site of a shop or shops is remembered,immediately in front of the farmhouse. To W a long line of concrete hut-foundations with brick chimneys standing at intervals ; each chimney served a fireplace heating a single room lined with bunks, which accommodated the Scottish fisher-girls during the season (July-August.)
RCAHMS 1984, visited (Dr R G Lamb), July 1979.
