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Record-breaking season at the Wireless Museum

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Pictured are some of the volunteers who run the museum. From the left: Fraser Garriock, Allan Way, Sandy Firth, Bill Stevenson, Kim Foden, Peter Leith, Bob Presland, Billy Jolly, Bill Wright. Missing from the photo are volunteers Liz Gilmore, Peter Stokes, Peter MacDonald, Margaret Mainland, John O’ Shea, Graham Rendall, Norrie Rendall, Dennis Walls, Jack Hargreaves, Mike MacDonald.

Visitor numbers to the Orkney Wireless Museum, in Kirkwall, reached a new high this summer, with over 2,000 paying visitors coming through the door.

Founded in St Margaret’s Hope, by the late Jim MacDonald, the museum moved to its present premises in Kirkwall in 1997.

Staffed by unpaid volunteers and enthusiasts, the museum houses a collection of domestic and military wireless equipment and associated paraphernalia, such as radio sets, advertising and photographs.