Water chute erected on the River Lee for the Cork Exhibition
Date: 1st May 1902 to 31st October 1903
Photo: Robert French
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That had something similar in Herbert Park, the good auld days eh, plumbing, trains, trams ;)
My Great Grandmother had the fishing rights (salmon mainly) on that same stretch of the Lee –
From the Lee Fields down to the North Gate Bridge
did she cook it up for you ?
My Dad used to make me stuffed brown trout he used to catch in the embers of a fire with blackened spuds , unforgettable
what did he stuff it with Janet? and did he par boil the spuds or were they small ones? These details are vital :)
quite big spuds and then you’d just ease of the black jacket and cover the smokey floury insides in butter and scallions, he would stuff the fish with button mushrooms , more scallions and a bit of parsley and more butter,
my Dad’s secret ingredient is massive amounts of butter !
Washed down with Barry’s tea from a flask full of sugar, why does tea taste best outside from a flask ?
He would smoke a Sweet Afton ,” to keep the life’s away ” and I’d make sure to sit in the smoke
flies *
That sounds like the best meal ever, simply wonderful
Never met the girl Janie
She was long gone by 1967
And all that activity – fishing and boat building/ repair on the City end of the Lee was gone by the late 30s
Well, what was left of it after the Black n’Tans and the *Burning of Cork
It was also Pre War, and there was more money to be made in the Factories. Namely Fords
* my Granda was always certain that they were among first to throw up the Stars & Bars – along the North Mall over to Pope’s Quay
sorry V
Janey Mac V , I would have never thought , from reading your comments , that you had a bourgeois
background. ; )
Far from it
Only one generation separates me and The Marsh
Me Nanny’s side
Old Workers Party and South Parish Credit Union founders
Those were the days when making a dinghy and sailing it were working-class practices. We should bring that back.
http://mirrorsailing.org/index.php/dinghy/history