Tag Archives: Liverpool

Inland waterways traffic 1

Posted on Wednesday 29 February 2012 | Leave a comment

Pusher tug Daisy Doardo and barge Res V on the Peel Holdings Manchester to Liverpool service

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Posted in Economic activities, Extant waterways, Foreign parts, Operations, waterways

Tagged Liverpool, Peel Holdings, pusher tug

Pue’s Occurrences

Posted on Wednesday 20 July 2011 | Leave a comment

I’ve had an article accepted at the history blog. It’s about the capstan at O’Briensbridge on the old Limerick Navigation and the trade it facilitated. There is more information about the technicalities on my own page about O’Briensbridge.

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Charles Wye Williams, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Irish waterways general, Operations, People, Restoration and rebuilding, Scenery, Sources, Steamers, The cattle trade, The turf trade, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged boats, bridge, capstan, Castleconnell, cattle, Clare, Dublin, ESB, floods, flow, Grand Canal, Ireland, Killaloe, Limerick, Liverpool, Lough Derg, Montpelier, O'Briensbridge, Operations, quay, Shannon, turf, vessels, water level, waterways

From the hearts of cranes

Posted on Wednesday 11 August 2010 | Leave a comment

Several ports on the Shannon Navigation have old cranes (or parts thereof), most of them nicely painted. Their age may not be apparent, but it is possible that they date back to the days of the Shannon Commissioners in the 1840s; at least one of them may be even older than that.

This page shows photographs of those cranes I know of, and discusses their possible ages. But there is much that remains unknown, and readers may be able to cast light on some of the mysteries.

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Posted in Ashore, Economic activities, Extant waterways, Industrial heritage, Irish waterways general, Operations, shannon estuary, Sources, Steamers, The turf trade

Tagged Ballylongford, Banagher, Bath Street Foundry, Board of Public Works, Board of Works, boats, bridge, canal, Carrick-on-Shannon, Clare, Clarke, Connacht Harbour, Connaught Harbour, Courtney & Stephens, Cow Island, foundry, Grand Canal Company, Haughtons Mills, Ireland, John Grantham, Kerry, Kilgarvan, Killaloe, Kirkland, Leitrim, Limerick, Liverpool, lock, Lough Derg, Mather Dixon, Offaly, Operations, Pete Brown, Portumna, quay, Ringsend, Saleen, Scarriff, Shannon, Shannon Commissioners, Shannon Navigation, Shannonbridge, Tipperary, turf, vessels, waterways, Waterways Ireland, Williamstown