Customs Officer W J Caldwell's memoirs

• Reference:GB 241 D1/1201
• Dates of Creation:1914-1921
• Physical Description:
  4 items

• Scope and Content

  Typed account of W J Caldwell's memoirs (grandfather of depositor) in Orkney. Subjects mentioned: description of the Orkneys; the Scapa Distillery; his duties at the distillery; his additional Excise duties across the Eastern part of the islands. Contains anecdotes and some of the people he investigated/helped. Mentions Mr Seatter, Deerness Postmaster; traveling to Copinsay; etc. Typed account of W J Caldwell's memoirs "Recollections of a Civil Servant" includes information above and his work in Limerick and Sunderland. Photocopy of two pages of the account about Orkney, written in his own handwriting Envelope of four photographs: Scapa House, 1915 x 2; Sydney and Leonard Caldwell, Scapa Beach, 1914; and The Caldwell Family, Kirkwall, 1915 & a postcard of Birsay.