heather working party A rare image of the Newcastle, Norn Iron, Harbour Community Association at work half way up the old bogey line which used to carry trolleys full of Mourne Granite from the quarries to the harbour. As part of beautification the working party are planting sprigs of heather-Huttonian never thought he would see the day that you needed to plant heather on the Mourne Mountains-talk about coal to Newcastle (different one) But as local builders are now importing granite from China we might have to consider planting some of that instead.

I am endebted to the secretary of the HCA for this photo in which he does not appear. A former colleague of Mr Fish at the Blether Centre he told the wife that the forecast rain would pass over. It promptly rained, of course. But at least our work was unwetted, which is of course what he meant. Probably
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