To: Heritage Boat Association From: Ballycommon Canal Renewal Group Date: Feb 16th 2011 Hi All, I am delighted to be able to inform you that our first work party will take place this coming Saturday Feb 19th. Registration will take place at 9 am beside Ballycommon…
Read moreAnyone who has regenerated, restored or replicated an old vessel understands the concept of craft. The author Jeannette Winterspoon stated recently in Craft – the art of making, “The most satisfying thing a human being can do … is make something”….
Read moreRenaissance of the birthplace of many Irish barges Of great interest to many members of the Heritage Boat Association are the Graving Dry Docks in the outer basin of Grand Canal Docks. We have written about them, toured them, photographed them, featured them on…
Read moreOrganising HBA events for 2011 is well under way see HBA Events Schedule 2011 and an interesting week long programme planned for the HBA 10 @ Banagher event see Banagher Anniversary Programme. Some memories of the Three Sisters in 2005. Members:…
Read moreIn 1929 the Corporation of Dublin published ‘A Book of Dublin’ Among these pages are two advertisements of interest to Irish barge owners. One is for the Dublin Dockyard Company, ‘builders of all classes of vessels up to 400 feet’….
Read moreHBA 10 @ Banagher Heritage Boat Association, a week to celebrate our tenth anniversary May 28th to June 6th 2011 In May 2001 the HBA was launched at the World Canal Conference in Dublin. In Banagher, once the centre of a prosperous river business and a vital stop…
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