20 Days of Orkney Trees #10

Today we bring you a couple of vouchers for work carried out in 1838. Alexander S. Graham of Crantit paid William Crear 16 shillings at the rate of 2 shillings per day for 8 days of pruning and transplanting trees and pruning the hedges in the grounds surrounding the ruins of the Bishop's Palace in Kirkwall.




Orkney Archive Reference D9/10

The 1883 OS map detail and Tom Kent image below show the Bishop's Palace and its trees several years later:



1883 Ordnance Survey

Tom Kent image reference 3412

Archive reference D9/10 also contains a letter from the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods and it has a lovely seal on the envelope...