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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;say_it_slowly, post: 9469922, member: 50&quot;]Oh goodness, I toured Skaill House just a few years ago while visiting the archaeological site of Skara Brae which is on the grounds. I can&#039;t say I remember the Captain Cook connection but it does appear there is one and his dinner service is there. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Today, after careful restoration work, the house is open to the public. Skaill House has been accredited by Visit Scotland as a four star visitor attraction. There are many rooms to explore and stories to uncover. Visitors can experience a family home as it was in the 1950s, and discover the items collected by the family since the 17th Century. Neolithic and Iron Age finds, Captain Cooks’s dinner service, the Bishop’s bed , and Stanley Cursiter paintings are a few of the many fascinating items on exhibition here.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://skaillhouse.co.uk/the-house/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://skaillhouse.co.uk/the-house/" rel="nofollow">https://skaillhouse.co.uk/the-house/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">Photo: Captain Cook&#039;s dinner service at Skaill House</font></p><p><b><font size="6">[ATTACH=full]442833[/ATTACH]</font></b></p><p><font size="4"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g551784-d3494532-i100793044-Skaill_House-Stromness_Mainland_Orkney_Islands_Scotland.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g551784-d3494532-i100793044-Skaill_House-Stromness_Mainland_Orkney_Islands_Scotland.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g551784-d3494532-i100793044-Skaill_House-Stromness_Mainland_Orkney_Islands_Scotland.html</a></font></p><p><b><font size="6"><br /></font></b></p><p><b><font size="6">[ATTACH=full]442834[/ATTACH]</font></b></p><p><b><font size="6"><br /></font></b></p><p><font size="4">&quot;Stromness had many famous visiting ships, but none more so than Captain Cook’s ships, ‘Discovery’ and ‘Resolution’, which called in to the town in 1780. On board were 180 crewmen who were making their first British landfall after Cook had been killed in Hawaii during a four year voyage to find the northwest passage through the Bering straits.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">In order to pay for diversions in port, the crew sold many of Cook’s items in advance of wages, and so many historical artefacts from Captain Cook’s voyages ended up in Orkney. George Low, an Orkney naturalist, did very well; Cook had been collecting specimens of natural history from the south seas. Captain Cook’s dinner service can be seen in Skaill House and more items, a tea set and spears from the South Seas, are housed in Stromness Museum.&quot;</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="https://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/orkney-blog/fascinating-facts-about-stromness/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/orkney-blog/fascinating-facts-about-stromness/" rel="nofollow">https://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/orkney-blog/fascinating-facts-about-stromness/</a></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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