Ola Gorie – jeweller, pioneer and a much-loved mother
Ola Gorie Jewellery is a genuine Orkney family business. As we approach Mother’s Day, Ola’s daughter Ingrid Tait offers some thoughts about growing...
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Welcome to Birdland
If Orkney ever needed a new name, Birdland would be very fitting. We have 12 RSPB reserves here, and of course the birds know no boundaries – they ...
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Behind Every Successful Jewellery Designer there's a Cheese and Wine Shop
Ola Gorie established her jewellery business in Kirkwall in 1960. But her family had already been a weel-kent presence in Orkney for over a hundre...
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Archaeology in a Day
As you will know if you've been to Orkney, or if you've watched one of Ola's videos - like this one from the summer: Ola at the Ness of Brodgar dig...
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Westray inspirations...
We received a lovely email yesterday, from archaeologist Alexandra 'Lekky' Shepherd, who had been visiting Orkney to attend a conference. She popp...
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Ola Gorie's Ness of Brodgar movie. Read the blog to see the video.
nce again the Ness of Brodgar is entrancing and mystifying us. And no one is more entranced than Ola, who allowed us to film her reactions to the s...
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The story behind Ola Gorie’s new Ness of Brodgar collection
Discover. In 2003, Arnie and Ola Tait asked a local farmer to plough the field next to their house at Brodgar. Set a bit deeper than previous...
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'Art and Architecture' - a great new book about ancient Orkney
As you may have read elsewhere on our website, the Ness of Brodgar really is one of the most impressive and inspirational archaeological sites in t...
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What is the Ness of Brodgar, anyway?
Okay, we all know that the Ness of Brodgar is the name of Ola Gorie's newest jewellery collection, launched this summer to great acclaim. But wher...
