Stromness Shopping Week

Saturday saw the closing night of Stromness shopping week, a yearly event which has been going since 1949. The event was conceived by the newly formed Stromness and West Mainland Chamber of Commerce to attract shoppers to the burgh and it has been going strong ever since.

For more history, click here to be taken to the official shopping week web site.

One of the best known traditions is that of crowning a Shopping Week Queen during the opening ceremony.

Below is the Orcadian's report for the first Shopping Week in 1949. The town went gay and it meant business...