- 16th May 2017
John Rae Festival 5 to 8 May 2017 Last year, the John Rae Society took the first financial step towards the acquisition of Rae’s birthplace,...
- 16th May 2017
As part of the 2017 Orkney Nature Festival, the John Rae Society ran a Family John Rae Explorer Trail around Stromness on Friday 19th May,...
- 12th April 2017
John Rae Society Festival 2017 To celebrate the first step in September 2016 towards the acquisition of the Hall of Clestrain over a five year...
- 21st February 2017
How did it go? Report from the festival Programme for the festival published The John Rae Society is pleased to announce that it will be...
- 6th February 2017
In January 2017 we paid for a structural survey of the Hall of Clestrain by Steve Wood of David Narro Associates of Edinburgh. The purpose...
- 6th February 2017
Hall of Clestrain planning workshop, 28th January 2017 On 28th January members of the John Rae Society’s Hall of Clestrain working group met in the...
- 13th October 2016
At 11.00 p.m. at John Rae’s grave side in Kirkwall cathedral a piper played beautiful music, which John Rae and his wife, Kate would have...
- 23rd August 2016
Hall of Clestrain Purchase – Press Release After a long period of delicate negotiations the John Rae Society is very pleased to announce that it...
- 22nd August 2016
Our new tent got its first outing at the 2016 Dounby Show. The evening before, several of us struggled to put it up in the...
- 22nd August 2016
It was a busy week helping at the Blue Door as well as the Dounby show. However the helpers of the Blue Door enabled us...
- 18th March 2016
Last weekend Colin and Davey went down to the Hall of Clestrain to install the Display board and donation box. The Display board will eventually...
- 18th February 2016
During the early part of the winter, a section of the roof was damaged and a gaping hole appeared. The Society were concerned that when...