Month: January 2017

The Victoria Lock Gates were named after Queen Victoria due to her fondness of the area which she regularly frequented with her husband Prince Albert during her reign as Queen of England.  Newry Shipping Canal was built to link the Tyrone coalfields from Lough Neigh down the River Bann to the the Irish sea at Carlingford lough. It was the first summit level to be built in Ireland or Great Britain, and pre-dated the more famous Bridgewater by nearly thirty years and Sankey Brook by fifteen years. It was authorised by the Commissioners…

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Take a step back in time at the seaside resort of Bangor Co Down nestled on the south shores of Belfast Lough. All images were shot in Bangor Co Down in the early 1950’s. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]It’s not often you receive phone call that takes your breath away but it certainly happen me during the week. I received a random phone call from a lady from Dublin explaining that her Great Uncle had passed away recently and they were starting to clear up his estate. Jane went on…

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