The Environment and Heritage Service (EHS) is the Government body charged with the preservation of historic monuments and as part of a survey five and a half years ago produced an assessment of McCann’s Bakery.
Month: June 2006
Newry Museum building: 1
Now that renovation of McCann’s Bakery is almost complete we can expect shortly to be again bombarded with ‘evidence’ that Newry’s ‘new’ Museum is in fact the very same building that was entitled ‘The New Castell’ on the earliest known map of ‘The Towne of The Newrye’ – the same building that Canavan, Newry’s definitive historian, referred to as the Abbott’s House.
Cathedral confirmations
My name is Seamus McCaul. My late dad Dan was originally from St Clare’s Avenue. When I emigrated to New Zealand in the mid 60s, the family lived at Killeavy Road in The Meadow.
The Craic: Mark McCrum
Well yes, I do know! Never, ever judge the book by the cover!
This time I failed miserably. I was tempted and succumbed.
In the Swim!
You would scarcely know it from the expressions on the girls’ faces, but that water in Warrenpoint Baths is ice-cold!
Ebenezer Chapel revisited
Live and learn! I have reason to visit the Salvation Army building on Trevor Hill on a regular basis – so I thought I’d enquire if they knew of the Ebenezer Community of old and where it was centred. But of course!
Memoirs: Penultimate
Watching Kelly’s coal boats unloading at the docks or coming through the lock gates on Carlingford Lough.