1 Best Sight in Yell, Orkney and Shetland Islands

Old Haa

The oldest building on the island, Burravoe's Old Haa is known for its crowstepped gables (the stepped effect on the ends of the roofs), typical of an early-18th-century Shetland merchant's house. There's an earnest memorial to Bobby Tulloch, the great Shetland naturalist and champion of Shetland's bird population (1929–96), and the displays in the upstairs museum tell the story of the wrecking of the German ship, the Bohus, in 1924. A copy of the ship's figurehead is displayed outside the building. The Old Haa serves light meals with home-baked bannocks, cakes, and other goodies and also acts as a kind of unofficial information center. A crafts shop is on the premises, too.

Burravoe, Shetland Islands, ZE2 9AY, Scotland
01957-722339
Sights Details
Rate Includes: Free, Closed Fri. and Oct.–June