Firehoose

This is the 'firehoose' at Kirbuster Museum, Birsay.
Still occupied up to the 1960s, the firehoose has a central peat-burning fire with the smoke going out through a hole in the roof.  There is a stone bed at the side of the room, (the bed looks like a big shelf in a tall stone cupboard - at the back with a blue bed-cover) and the layout of the room looks very similar to that of the neolithic (5,000 year-old) houses found at Skara Brae. 

Another view of the room is on  'Extra'.