Oddrun Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 This link goes to a page with kirks I know more or less nothing about : http://shetlopedia.com/Category_talk:Churches_and_Chapels Please Shetlinkers, take a look at it...just little bits of info is useful !!Cheers, Oddrun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxFusion Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 the old bakery in walls was a former church, it was also built on the site of a much older church(you could see the remains of it on the pics that were online last time it was up for sale)it was also the Aurora knitting factory for years when I was a kid oot wast.can't mind dates exactly but it stood for a few years empty before becoming the walls bakery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlander Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 The kirk in West Sandwick, Yell was a Church of Scotland and held services up until at least the late 1980s. I don't believe it was named though. If memory serves me rightly it was sold along with the adjacent Manse and is now privately owned. I seem to mind the kirk at Haroldswick being used by Ian Reid when he was based up in Unst although somebody with more local knowledge can correct me if I'm wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddrun Posted November 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 Thank you so far....Now at least I can make a page for the West Sandwick one...I just call it West Sandwick Kirk...It would be interesting to know someting about the one up in Unst....and also the one near Tangwick Haa..Shetland Museum has a picture of a cross :http://photos.shetland-museum.org.uk/index.php?a=wordsearch&s=item&key=Wczo4OiJUYW5nd2ljayI7&pg=46 They say it is probably in the chapel at Tangwick....I wonder if that was the house I have a pic of ..it looks very much like a former chapel..Then is the question, what kind of chapel ; C. of Scotland, Methodist or something else.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxFusion Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 I believe the one in eshaness(tangwick) was a chapel that was sold off and converted into a house in the not too distant past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddrun Posted November 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 Hopefully someone from Northmavine reads this...I thought about joining their forum and ask there about the Tangwick Chapel.... I see that the Mods has changed the name on my thread....I made that that "Please Read" title just so that people who normally are not interested in Churches and Chapels could stumble in, and maybe they could know something.......but the Mods are the bosses.... Another thing I wonder about is if someone could happen to have a picture of the Swedish Fishermen's Church in Baltasound...as I understand it, the building blew down in a hurricane in the early 1990's....I have really no idea where in Baltasound it stood, so I have no chance to find it on old Museum pictures... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EM Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 I see that the Mods has changed the name on my thread....I made that that "Please Read" title just so that people who normally are not interested in Churches and Chapels could stumble in, and maybe they could know something.......but the Mods are the bosses.... But on the flip side, all those people interested in churches, architecture, history etc., and who avoid clicking on "Please read" type titles, they would have missed it. Always best to be straight and transparent rather than trying to trick people into clicking something. A good Mod decision, such titles are bad netiquette. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddrun Posted November 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 OK, I know I'm an IDIOT, Just forget it ...And the church people had the chance to answer last time I posted the link...thought it was worth the try, not worse than "I'm back" as a headline I thought....Mods, better delete the whole thing !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 No, will not. But seriously, because of Shetlands very rich ecclesial history it may be a subject of interest to many and you may get further posts offered here for a long time to come. Hopefully so, many interesting kirks, whatever your beliefs are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddrun Posted November 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 Do whatever you want........I'm gone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 ......Shetlands very rich ecclesial history Should that not be Ecclesiastical? Rhymes with testical, the thing which always risks the chance of being removed by an angry Trowie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 ^ I hummed and heyed ower dat me'sell, but as it happens: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ecclesial It was a new wan on me, to be honest. Just to be a coward about it I'll say that I didna change the thread title- Just to protect my ecclesiasticals from a wicked angry Trowie. (Hoping sho will still get some use o diss treed tho ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 I happened to see the title deeds for the Waas bakery (former kirk) a few years ago. It was originally built in the 1840's when the land was bought from the landowner. The Kirk Business Centre was the Scalloway School gym before the games hall was built. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarhellja Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 I think that the site of the kirk you mention in Baltasound is close to the pier. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosn Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 there will definately be somebody in Unst who will know, surely a history group or something , By the way ,is the Voe kirk on it? it was pre reformation wi the bit on the back older still , possibly as old as monastic, and an old ruin in Lunna as old Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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