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Historical Ulster: Ardglass
Monday, 1 February 2010
The crew of the Oriole, one of the Ardglass fishing boats, working on a heavy cargo of Whiting after yesterday's catches, the first since the port was closed last week. 9/2/1954
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One hundred years ago it would have been a familiar scene: dozens of 'gutters' handling the herring catch on the harbour at Ardglass.
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The sheltered deep-sea inlet of Ardglass grew into a fishing port to the point where some four or five hundred sail powered craft habitually crowded into the harbour (many from as far away as the east coast of Scotland) fishing during the summer months for herring - the 'silver darlings' of the Irish Sea - and in the winter for whiting and cod.
Today the picture is a very different one. The 'gutters' have gone; no longer do hundreds of herring barrels stand along the quayside. State-of-the-art trawlers ply in and out of the well modernised harbour.
The leviathains of the deep go to sea with all mod-cons. Over the years herring festivals have been a major feature in the port of Ardglass which claims to have had the first singing pub in Northern Ireland, the first piano breaking contest and the first trawler race.
Our images hopefully reflect a slice of this daily lifestyle of the harbour village in the past decades.
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Dear Sir, Whilst not strictly concerning the articles in the Belfast Telegraph, I wonder if it is possible to get a copy of the papers front page that appeared on the 9th April 1910. My wife works as a home help in Strangford and one of her charges who has had to go into a home in Ardglass, is coming up to his 100 birthday on the above date. We think it might be a a nice gift for him on his birthday.
Thanking you in anticipation,
T Allan Hudson.
Posted by Allan Hudson | 15.03.10, 10:53 GMT
Thank you for a fantastic trip down memory lane. I lived in Ballyhornan and Ardglass during World War II, having been evacuated out of Belfast. With the 65th anniversary of the Normandy Invasion on June 6th, I felt compelled to write about my life in Ardglass under the title Snippets of Memories which also told about my growing up in Belfast and my eventual move to the United States. The pictures really brought back many memories.
Posted by Lena Spongerg | 08.02.10, 17:02 GMT