Archive for June, 2021

SAILORTOWN: BELFAST.

SAILORTOWN: BELFAST.

Ripping apart a neighbourhood just to build yet another neighbourhood, isn’t always a good idea.Plenty of ‘new town’ residents can attest; the idea is basically sound insofar as people graduate into better quality housing, although sad to say, not necessarily better communities.Nonetheless, Belfast in the late sixties was dealt the wrecking ball in an area called ‘Sailortown.’ Just as the name suggests, it was…

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‘THE GOODWIN SANDS: PLUMBING NEW DEPTHS.

‘THE GOODWIN SANDS: PLUMBING NEW DEPTHS.

‘The coins just kept spinning out onto to the deck’ commented one of the seamen. It was a pub conversation and at first I thought he was boasting about his luck on the fruit machine until I realised that he’d just paid off a vessel chartered by Dover Harbour Board (DHB) to dredge the Goodwin Sands off the Kent coast.I am fairly sure that the year was…

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