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May 11, 2020
2 Shillings, it’s a wedding thing The British florin, or two shilling coin, was issued from 1849 until 1967, valued at one tenth of a pound (24 old pence), it was the last coin circulating immediately prior to decimalisation to be demonetised, in 1993, having for a quarter of a century circulated alongside the ten pence piece, identical in specifications …
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April 28, 2020
Bernadette shares her memories of her mum and Daly’s, the local shop.
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April 24, 2020
Each of the Participants involved in the Project were invited to bring in an item to share with the group. It could be a photography, a historical item or a family heirloom. Hughie brought in his Great Grandfather’s banjo to show the group.
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April 24, 2020
Abi shares with us the story of her 109 year old Bible and how it was won for ‘Good answering’ by her Great Grandmother.
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April 24, 2020
In this video Robert and John tell us about their Millennium Project to build a traditional Irish Donkey Cart and Turf Barrow, and although this was a massive undertaking, it was nowhere as difficult as the requirement to make 2 miniature scaled models of the same.
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April 20, 2020
Under workshopsen I Place EE I Skellefteå så pratade vi om förändringen som skett inom teknologi och i vilket takt förändringen har skett. Några av seniorerna som deltog berättade om sina tidigare yrken och fritidsintressen, detta ledde till intressanta diskussioner kring hur saker och ting har förändrats över tid. Detta gav de yngre deltagarna en …
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April 02, 2020
A Badger’s Woes – a poem by Robert Corrigan
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April 02, 2020
The Blackthorn bush is found throughout Ireland and the British Isles. It has been prized for centuries as a material for premium walking sticks. The original Blackthorn sticks used to be 2 to 4-foot long Irish shillelaghs (the national weapon of rural Ireland). In expert hands the shillelagh was so fearsome that during the final …
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