If there's more of that film I should love to see it. It really seems a shame that almost all the activity is now gone from the docks - the industries first in the early '80's (Ford's, Dunlop's... The Steelworks, a few miles downstream, limped on for a while but now gone the same way. Another nail in the coffin of native industrial infrastructure.) And with seemingly remorseless inevitability, the shipping has followed suit. I know that the port probably handles more tonnage, if not actual traffic, than it ever did, now that facilities have moved down to Ringaskiddy, and if Liverpool and mighty London had to bow to the progress of containerisation, etc, well Cork needn't be to grand to do the same. Still, it really gave something to the character of the city when you had maybe a dozen ships, banana boats, tramp steamers, the occasional foreign warship, or even submarine, etc, tied up at the quays, loading and unloading within a spit of the City Hall and a stone's throw of the housewives getting their bits and pieces in the erstwhile Roches Stores and the (now 'boojified') English Market; a character that can't be replicated however many times they rebrand the area as The Dock _'lands',_ The Financial 'Quarter', The Sextant >Bleeurgh!< 'Quarter' etc. etc... Surprised they don't just go the full hog and Christen it 'The Left Bank'..! (As for Ringaskiddy, I certainly can't imagine many a jolly mariner 'Yo Ho Ho'~ing around _those_ >ahem< 'storied' precincts!) It was interesting listening to the Culture Vulture dude, when he said Corkonians could be 'superficial' - I don't think he even meant it disparagingly, but talking about opera as he was (well... Gilbert & Sullivan - does that even count?!), Certainly as far as the 'new' Opera House is concerned, I know during my 22 years in Cork, from '69 until '92, I don't ever recall a _single_ opera being staged at the opera house - I'm open to correction but I only ever seem to recall variety, pantos and that sort of thing, along with the occasional 'proper' play. Meanwhile, to its great credit, the far smaller and barely regarded Wexford seems to be able to put on all the opera you can eat...
If there's more of that film I should love to see it.
It really seems a shame that almost all the activity is now gone from the docks - the industries first in the early '80's (Ford's, Dunlop's... The Steelworks, a few miles downstream, limped on for a while but now gone the same way. Another nail in the coffin of native industrial infrastructure.) And with seemingly remorseless inevitability, the shipping has followed suit. I know that the port probably handles more tonnage, if not actual traffic, than it ever did, now that facilities have moved down to Ringaskiddy, and if Liverpool and mighty London had to bow to the progress of containerisation, etc, well Cork needn't be to grand to do the same. Still, it really gave something to the character of the city when you had maybe a dozen ships, banana boats, tramp steamers, the occasional foreign warship, or even submarine, etc, tied up at the quays, loading and unloading within a spit of the City Hall and a stone's throw of the housewives getting their bits and pieces in the erstwhile Roches Stores and the (now 'boojified') English Market; a character that can't be replicated however many times they rebrand the area as The Dock _'lands',_ The Financial 'Quarter', The Sextant >Bleeurgh!< 'Quarter' etc. etc... Surprised they don't just go the full hog and Christen it 'The Left Bank'..! (As for Ringaskiddy, I certainly can't imagine many a jolly mariner 'Yo Ho Ho'~ing around _those_ >ahem< 'storied' precincts!)
It was interesting listening to the Culture Vulture dude, when he said Corkonians could be 'superficial' - I don't think he even meant it disparagingly, but talking about opera as he was (well... Gilbert & Sullivan - does that even count?!), Certainly as far as the 'new' Opera House is concerned, I know during my 22 years in Cork, from '69 until '92, I don't ever recall a _single_ opera being staged at the opera house - I'm open to correction but I only ever seem to recall variety, pantos and that sort of thing, along with the occasional 'proper' play. Meanwhile, to its great credit, the far smaller and barely regarded Wexford seems to be able to put on all the opera you can eat...
Brilliant thanks for sharing 👍🏻☘️
Comere boy, where didgha find de axant
I don’t think it’d 1963, that J26 steam loco was probobly withdrawn 2 years by then