Taken from The Orcadian dated 17th January 1874.
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Monday, 17 November 2014
Saturday, 26 January 2013
Dear Rest of The World, Is it Tea-time yet?
Orkney is completely connected and global nowadays. We have internet-shopping, the UHI, hats, everything; but this was not always the case.
Reading copies of the John O'Groats Journal, a Caithness paper, from the 1850s highlights how remote the Northern Isles used to be. The news updates from Orkney and Shetland are very occasional, the regularity of the mail service to the isles is referred to as 'a joke' and on the 18th of July 1851, the Stromness correspondent asked WHAT THE TIME WAS...
Reading copies of the John O'Groats Journal, a Caithness paper, from the 1850s highlights how remote the Northern Isles used to be. The news updates from Orkney and Shetland are very occasional, the regularity of the mail service to the isles is referred to as 'a joke' and on the 18th of July 1851, the Stromness correspondent asked WHAT THE TIME WAS...
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