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The Churchill Barriers link four islands with the Orkney mainland and were built in the 1940s to protect the waters of Scapa Flow from German U-boats. They were commissioned by First Lord of the ...

But Orkney's trump card is history ... Restored and beloved, it sits just off the road by one of the "Churchill Barriers," which the prisoners built to keep German submarines out of Scapa Flow.

Orkney Library & Archive The Camp 60 team ... The prisoners helped to build the Churchill Barriers, a series of sea defences, as well as creating the Italian Chapel. This ornate chapel was ...

Wales had two flood alerts in the south and south-west of the country, while there was one flood warning in Scotland, around the Churchill Barriers in the Orkney Islands. It comes after the Met ...