Martin S. Laird

Artist | film-maker | animator

Tag: Hoy

  • HMS Pheasant 1917: book available now

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    HMS Pheasant 1917: Who were the lost men and boys? HMS Pheasant 1917: Who were the lost men and boys? by Fiona Grahame is available to order now from all good book sellers. It tells the stories of the crewmen who were lost aboard the Royal Navy M-Class destroyer HMS Pheasant whilst on patrol off…

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    HMS Pheasant 1917: Who were the lost men and boys? by Fiona Grahame. Cover shows a photo of Rora Head on Hoy by Martin Laird where HMS Pheasant hit a mine. Superimposed over this is a photo of WIlliam Bowen, one of the men lost.

  • Yellow Cake Revisted

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    Yellow Cake Revisited: Peter Maxwell Davies and the Orkney anti-uranium mining campaign.

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    Martin Laird
    Peter Maxwell Davies with the No Uranium mining protest sign, a nuclear symbol, notation from his Yellow Cake Revue, and a swan.

  • HMS Pheasant 1917

    The Orkney News team are seeking funding to make a documentary focussing on the untold story of the crew of HMS Pheasant, lost during WW1 off Orkney.

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    Martin Laird
    HMS Pheasant 1917 crowdfunder ad. Visit www.crowdfunder.co.uk/hms-pheasant-1917 for more information and to donate

  • Hoy

    Photographs of Hoy Hoy is the hilliest island in Orkney. The name means “high island” from the Old Norse word haey. Ward Hill stands 479m tall and is quite a tough climb, there being no well-trodden path and potentially many hostile nesting bonxies! The island has a seemingly unpredictable weather system which can catch travelers…

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    Martin Laird
    black and white photograph of Rora Head, Hoy

  • Stromness

    The great Stromhole in the sky, fed by burning farm plastic.

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    Martin Laird
    A view of Stromness from Cairston with the setting sun glowing behind a gap inteh clouds behind the hills of Hoy.