It's funny, if you stay in a place for a week or two, then the onion skin effect begins........
So just when you thought you knew your way around, a humongous Tesco turns up, just 200 metres from the city centre.
You find a pub that has an open mike night and suddenly you realise where all the young people are hanging.........
You go to a chamber orchestra concert, little realising that Newry had been invaded by Bulgaria, world music , gypsy dances, Ulean pipes, Indian folk music, opera, a beautiful and fascinating mix of harmonies and rhythm.
So to the pub and guess what? It continues, we are really enjoying our stay in Newry, we are getting to know our neighbours and the ladies at the information office at Bagenals Castle are very helpfu. Bagenals Castle is also the local museum and a very fine one. It perfectly demonstrates the onion skin principle in that it is one of the oldest buildings in Newry but has been added to and built around so that it is necessaryto peel way some of its skin to see the history underneath. The museum facilitates this in a number of ways one of which is the glass floor showing the cellars ( or dungeons maybe?)
The canal basin where we are moored also has a lot of history attached, this would have been the view from around the 1800s
Dark Tarn is moored just behind where the steam vessel on the right is in the photograph, the view in the background is largely unchanged except for a few mobile phone masts and the floodlights for the local Gaelic football ground.
A similar view from 1963 or thereabouts, the foremost vessel is from Denmark and is unloading timber
This is an intriguing image I unearthed, it is definitely the Ship Canal and is noted as being the Quays however I suspect it is more towards the town centre, what is now known as the Butter Crane Quay and Sugar Island.
Judging by the cars this must date from the 1930s or 1940s
More detective work needed............
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