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I found this record of my great-uncle George Taggart who was born at The Poole, Ballyoglagh, Mosside, Co Antrim; George William is his son.

George emigrated in 1908 and I found his passenger record and other details at Ellis Island Records:

He visited his folks in The Poole in 1957 and he picked me up at the Greyhound coach stop in Eureka, California, in the summer of 1965.

Bushmills - Portraits of Great Communicators

AN INVITATION

 

Ballycastle and the ECOSAL ATLANTIS Project

You are cordially invited to attend a meeting to hear about the Ecosal-Atlantis Project and to meet others in the Cumbria, N Ireland and Scotland areas who have an interest in traditional salt making and the culture of salt.

To be held on

Monday 1st July

at

Solway Coast Discovery Centre

Liddell Street 
Silloth-on-Solway 
Cumbria CA7 4DD

2pm to 4pm

Please pass this information on to anyone you think might benefit from hearing about the proposed UK Salt Network.

RSVP to Andrew Fielding   aandafieldingltd@gmail.com     

For more information call 07749765203

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

A team from Bournemouth University have been working with partners in Portugal, Spain and France for the last 3 years to prepare background information to inform a salt network and to establish an Atlantic Route of Traditional Salt Making.

The team have been meeting with people along the UK's Atlantic coast and gathering archaeological and historical data about where salt has been made along the coastline. Our EU partners aim to support the traditional practices of salinas, whilst our UK route is focused more on archaeology, historical sites, food, ceramics and cultural activities based on salt which can add to local, regional and national tourism and sustainable tourism and economic development. To do this we intend to create a Community Interest Company to act as a co-ordinating body to promote these aims on behalf of the wider salt heritage community across the UK and develop the Traditional Salt Route of the Atlantic Coast.

The 16 page leaflet describing the UK Salt network can be found on the Ecosal web site.

http://ecosal-atlantis.ua.pt/index.php?q=content/salt-network-uk-proposed-part-ecosal-atlantis-route

http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/applied-sciences/research/ecosal-atlantis//index.html

http://www.youtube.com/user/halenffrind/videos?flow=grid&view=0

I look forward to meeting you at the Solway Coast AONB Discovery Centre on Monday 1st July and describing the project and the exciting future for salt heritage. Further local group meetings will be arranged specifically for Scotland and N Ireland as the project develops.

-- 
Andrew Fielding

A&A Fielding Ltd

http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/applied-sciences/research/ecosal-atlantis//index.html

http://www.youtube.com/user/halenffrind/videos?flow=grid&view=0

30 May  - Cheshire, Merseyside and Lancashire cluster - Middlewich Town Hall, Cheshire

11 June - SW cluster - Helston Museum, Cornwall

14 June - Southern cluster - Bournemouth University, Dorset

1 July   - Cumbria, N Ireland and Scotland  - Solway Coast AONB Discovery centre, Silloth, Cumbria

TBC - Wales - Anglesey Sea Salt Company, Brynsciencyn, Anglesey

TBC - The East Coast - Heritage Lincolnshire, Heckington, Lincs

Rathlin Ferry Saga - When Have Nots Can Have Yachts

Back in August 2012, the Pensions Ombudsman produced a report on a death in service benefit owed to the widow of a deceased crew member who'd been employed by Rathlin Island Ferry Limited [RIFL]; it included the following statement by Stewarts Solicitors:

"I regret that my [RIFL] clients are unable to discharge this sum at this time and my instructions are to raise discussions with the deceased’s solicitors in an effort to agree terms of payment."

Ciaran O Driscoll, a RIFL director, published a tender for a new yacht, dated 27 March 2013. Here is a snippet:

"Construction and Supply of new GRP sailing vessel.

Tenders are sought for the construction and supply of a new GRP sailing vessel of 15 to 17 metre in length, less than 2 metre draught, of 4/5 berths to accommodate 10/12 sailors. ..


The price guide for the tender is €175k to €230k. Please note that this tender invitation is subject to the receipt of grant aid support."

What does the Department of Regional Development (DRD) think of this development? We know that DRD returned £91,682 to the RIFL accounts for 2010/11 and an unspecified amount for 2011/12 which enabled the company to make a profit of £34,123. The amount returned for the recent two year period would appear to be of the order of £200,000. Has the RIFL director decided to take the returned claw-back funds and splash-out on a new £150,000 to £200,000 yacht instead of honouring the debt to the widow promptly and in full?

Could DRD not have done the decent thing by assuming responsibility for the payment of the debt in full? The email correspondence in June 2008 clearly shows that DRD officials were intimately involved in the transfer arrangements between the former and the new operator. Could and should our elected representatives and independent members of the DRD Departmental Board have done more to hold DRD to account?