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Wartime Heritage Projects

U-47 © Orkney Library Archive

Defence Expansion & the War in the North Sea

A boom defence netlayer in Gutter Sound © The National Archives, ref. ADM116/5790

Preparations for War

School Project Exhibition Launch at SFVC&M © B. Jones 2014

North Walls Community School Project

Some of the many trenches to be found on Wee Fea as part of the IoHDT Wartime Heritage Geocache Trail

Geocache Orienteering Trail

Archaeological Survey Training Plotting Measurements © Orkney Islands Council 2014

Legacies of Conflict Recommendations

wind turbine

Wind Turbine Performance

IoHDT wind turbine

Wind Turbine installation

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