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The transfer of the barrels of whiskey from Locke's Distillery in Kilbeggan to the Grand Canal at Ballycommon by horse drawn cart has taken place. Niall Galway of the IWAI has posted a video of the event on You Tube which can be viewed here

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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The Flemish Association for Industrial Archaeology is campaigning to save at least a part of the oldest Vierendeel Bridge in the World Heritage town Brugge, see the article in Flanders Today http://www.flanderstoday.eu/content/unique-bridge-destined-scrapheap
All the other Vierendeel-bridges were destroyed during two world wars - only this one survived till now.

Vierendeel (1852-1940) was a famous Belgian engineer (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Vierendeel) who invented the so-called Vierendeel truss. Such trusses do not have the usual trianglular voids seen in a pin–joint truss bridge, rather employing rectangular openings and rigid connections in the elements, which (unlike a conventional truss) must also resist substantial bending forces. Movable bridges of this type are very rare. Only one swing bridge of this type is known: the Scheepsdale bridge in Brugge.
The Vierendeel principle, a construction similar to a truss but with rigid joints, was used in the New York World Trade Center.

A photo report on the Scheepsdale Bridge can be found at: http://www.vvia.be/sites/lijst_WV/8000001.htm
A list of existing and disappeared bridges where the Vierendeel-principles were used is compiled at the website http://users.telenet.be/karel.roose/vierendeel/vierendeel.html

Please help us
and send a letter or a e-mail which pleads for saving at least a relevant part of this bridge
to:
- the City Council of Brugge, Burg 12 - B-8000 Brugge an/or to the Lord Mayor, kabinet.burgemeester@brugge.be
- the Historic Buildings Department of Brugge, Oostmeers 17, B-8000 Brugge, monumentenzorg@brugge.be
- the Flemish Minister in charge of Heritage Conservation, Geert Bourgeois, Arenbergstraat 7, B-1000 Brussel, kabinet.bourgeois@vlaanderen.be
- the Flemish Historic Buildings Department, Koning Albert II Laan 19 bus 3, 1210 Brussel, aml@rwo.vlaanderen.be
- the Flemish Minister of Public Works, Mrs H. Crevits, Koning Albert II laan 20 bus 1, B-1000 Brussel, kabinet.crevits@vlaanderen.be
- Mr. Paul Breyne, governor of the province of West-Flanders, Burg 3, B-8000 Brugge

Please forward this message to friends and colleagues in your country

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'Vlaamse Vereniging voor Industriële Archeologie'
(Flemish Association for Industrial Archaeology)
P.O. Box 30 - Post Office 'Gent Stationswijk'
B-9000 Gent-12
Flanders-Belgium
fax (+32)(0)56/255173
e-mail: vvia@vvia.be
http://www.vvia.be and http://industrialheritage.be
The VVIA is the overall volunteer association for the study, the preservation and the interpretation of industrial and technical heritage in Flanders
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visit our website at: http://www.vvia.be/
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The VVIA is a member of the European Federation of Associations for Industrial and Technical Heritage / E-FAITH - see: http://www.e-faith.org/
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'Vlaamse Vereniging voor Industriële Archeologie'
(Flemish Association for Industrial Archaeology)
P.O. Box 30 - Post Office 'Gent Stationswijk'
B-9000 Gent-12
Flanders-Belgium
fax (+32)(0)56/255173
e-mail: vvia@vvia.be
http://www.vvia.be and http://industrialheritage.be
The VVIA is the overall volunteer association for the study, the preservation and the interpretation of industrial and technical heritage in Flanders
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visit our website at: http://www.vvia.be/
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The VVIA is a member of the European Federation of Associations for Industrial and Technical Heritage / E-FAITH - see: http://www.e-faith.org/
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Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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I have started to build the new "Railways" index page in WordPress. The old html page will remain for a while yet, but gradually links off it will be to new WordPress pages with any new pages parallel linked off the new "Railways" index page in WordPress.

To kick start the process, I have established a new page in WordPress for the Railway Clearing House Junction Maps. I have also created a WordPress page for each Irish junction map as published by the RCH with a brief narrative setting out the history of each line featured on each map. About 50% of the junction maps are now online with the balance to follow.

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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The Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company have published a concise history of their harbour and have also placed a pdf version of the book online for free download here.

There is one error I noticed in the work which states that the first train on the Dublin & Kingstown Railway ran on October 9th. Murray (Ireland's First Railway) records this as the first locomotive trip over the full line - however, public services did not commence until 17th December 1834. The history of the funicular railway from Dalkey Quarry to Dun Laoghaire also misses out a very significant aspect of this, fuller details of which can be read here.

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company, the semi state company responsible for the management and development of Dun Laoghaire Harbour, have announced that the battery on the East Pier in Dun Laoghaire will be open to the public from Thursdays to Sundays inclusive until 18th October 2009.

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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The following is a notice from Waterways Ireland:
MARINE NOTICE No. 94 of 2009 ROYAL CANAL
11th. /12th Lock Dublin Area - Temporary Bridge

Masters and Owners are advised that a temporary bridge has been put in place
immediately downstream of the M50 aqueduct on the Royal Canal between the
11th and 12th Lock. This bridge is to facilitate pedestrians during ongoing
construction works at the M50 / N3 junction and will cause some restrictions
to navigation.

Anyone requiring passage through this area should contact Waterways Ireland
Eastern Regional Office (353 1 868 0148), giving 24 hours notice (48 hours
notice for weekends), and passage will be arranged as required.

Waterways Ireland thanks its customers for their cooperation in this matter.

C.J.Lawn
Lt Cdr rtd
Inspector of Navigation
28 Aug 2009

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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An Post, the national postal service for the Republic of Ireland, has issued a new stamp to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Guinness. In addition to the 82c stamp, a commemorative first day cover has been issued.

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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The BBC has reported that Northern Ireland missed out on a potential grant of Stg£500,000 towards a museum with a dedicated section for the Titanic which instead went to Southampton - the reason being that no-one in Belfast bothered to apply to the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Paul Mullan of the Heritage Lottery Fund was quoted thus in relation to Belfast missing out: "No-one has come to us to look for funding for a permanent museum in Belfast in relation to the Titanic"

Eyes on the ball in future please.

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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The Leitrim Observer has reported that construction work has commenced on a new footbridge over the River Shannon in Carrick on Shannon - parallel to the existing road bridge over the Shannon on the outskirts of the town.

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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The Irish Times (26th August 2009) has reported that as part of the archaeological investigations in advance of building the Roosky-Dromod bypass, a network of trackways was uncovered and - more significantly - part of a large wheel which was dated to 1100 BC. The wheel would have been three part - 2 "C" sections and a rectangular "axle" in the centre - all joined together with dowels. The diameter of the wheel was c 1.5 metres.

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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