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Sunday, 26 December 2021

From Stromness


 Saltaire Living Advent Calendar 2021: #8

In recent years, not only has Saltaire created our own Living Advent Calendar but we have also helped other places to start their version of the idea. We've even partnered with places in other countries and now exchange windows with them, so that for several years we have hosted a window from Rydals Museum in Sweden and sent them one in return. 

We've done the same with Stromness in Orkney. Their window is shown above - a creation by children at the primary school, showing their town and a lifeboat. It is perhaps not widely known that Sir Titus Salt funded Stromness's first lifeboat, built in Bradford and sent to Orkney in 1867. She was named 'Saltaire'. 

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