North County Dublin.
Balbriggan.
A Tidal Harbour Lighthouse.
A few scenes from around the Balbriggan area, quite a picturesque town.
Plaque where once was located the ;
Great Harwood Industrial and Co-Operative Provision Society Limited 1864.
This was in a time when employers such as Cadburys Chocolate and Guinness Beers built housing, model villages, towns, playgrounds and even baths and markets for the locals and their employees.
They felt a moral imperative to care for the less well off in their communities and actively contribute to the building and maintenance of functioning local society.
Today we have BEZOS and MUSK instead..... taking, taking, taking.
Co-ops and different types of communal " societies" were commonplace in Europe throughout the 19th Century.
The 21st Century has largely seen the disappearance of such enterprises which were solely concerned with a type of collectivisation and the common good.
Alas BEZOS and MUSK et al, would quickly put a stop to such "outrages against consumerism".
There was a long history of Hosiery and Clothing manufacturing in Balbriggan and indeed a type of Long Johns were known as "Balbriggans".
Claim to fame; Apparently in a movie at one time John Wayne, the famous Hollywood actor called or his "Balbriggans".
The small River Bracken enters the Sea at Balbriggan is alive with Grey wagtails and swooping Swifts along with the occasional Heron and snowy white little Egret.
Napoleonic 1800's Martello Tower at Balbriggan.
Balbriggan Harbour.
