belleek

Belleeeeeeek .. maps.app.goo.gl/mB2cGkKZMhpjEdYz6 We've been here before.

Belleek Pottery

Looking across a future border

Ok we know its Belleek, but what do we know about the pottery and the Town itself? It is built on a very strategic crossing point.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Here is the company history. It was founded by John Caldwell Bloomfield, who inherited the land in 1849, and was looking for something with which to employ people after the famine. There’s some info as well from our last outing here - particularly dating info.

Is that Jaunty?

DannyM8 Possibly?

The salmon fishery at Belleek came up for sale at the Landed Estates Court in Dublin in July 1867. It was...

held by fee-farm grant, all lessed to tenants, and producing together a net annual rental of £1,094 4s. 7d., on which there will be a very large increase on the expiration of the existing tenants’ leases, which are now subsisting only for one life, aged about 70 years ... The railway from Enniskillen to Bundoran has stations at Ballyshannon and Belleek, and there is now direct railway communication from these towns to Dundalk and Dublin, affording greatly increased facilities for conveying the salmon and eels to the English markets, and adding considerably to the value of the Fisheries.

(Freeman’s Journal, 20 June 1867) Eels too. But they’re not sexy, so you don’t hear about eel ladders?

First impression is that it is Mr Jaunty. Which might put the photo in the early 1880s?

Print on ebay - www.ebay.ca/itm/W-L-UK-Belleek-Salmon-Ladder-Vintage-albu...

Very nice Photo. Such a lovely Dining Room. The Table is set very well.

Lovely!

or is Life a Bowl of Chocolate Coated Brazil Nuts?

Gillian-r Which were not to be had for love nor money anywhere in Dublin this Christmas! Left shopping too late... :(

only five courses