IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
The Willows, STRABANE, BT82 9FQ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to The Willows, BT82 9FQ by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (100 Images Found)
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Details
Distance
1
A blizzard is approaching the "Lade" from the north
The "Lade" or mill race on a wintery afternoon at Sion Mills.
Image: © Des Colhoun
Taken: 20 Feb 1984
0.05 miles
2
"The Hole" with the sluices in the background
Another popular swimming venue for the villagers in the summertime and a gift to the angler when the river was in spate.
Image: © Des Colhoun
Taken: 14 Jul 2001
0.06 miles
3
Sluice gates controlling the flow to the Lade
This is where most village people learnt to swim due to the absence of swimming baths in the region up to the late Sixties. I learnt to swim here myself and apart from the occasional drowned dog muddying the waters my memories of those days are much treasured.
Image: © Des Colhoun
Taken: 20 Jul 1975
0.07 miles
4
Interior, Church of the Good Shepherd (1)
Looking ENE towards the altar
The church is built in an Italian style
See external view here Image]
Image: © Kenneth Allen
Taken: 10 Nov 2014
0.08 miles
5
Downstream view from the Lade bridge
Another great swimming venue for the village youth, though sometimes with fatal consequences.
Image: © Des Colhoun
Taken: 10 Aug 1975
0.08 miles
6
"The Lade" or mill race driving the turbines at Sion Mills
A once busy flax mill used the power provided by the River Mourne to drive the turbines vis this or Lade as it is locally known. In the distance you can see the sluice gates which control the rate of flow of the water.
Image: © Des Colhoun
Taken: 20 Jul 1985
0.08 miles
7
Industrial units on the southern edge of Sion Mills
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 19 Aug 2009
0.09 miles
8
Tablet, Emerson Tennent Herdman
It includes the following text:
In Memory of Emerson Tennent Herdman
Born Dec 6th 1842 Died Oct 26 1918
and of
Fanny Alice his wife
Born July 5th 1844 Died March 4th 1918
Both generous benefactors of this church
This tablet is erected by their children
To do good and to distribute forget not, for with
such sacrifices God is well pleased. Hebrews XIII 16
Pictured here Image]
Image: © Kenneth Allen
Taken: 10 Nov 2014
0.09 miles
9
Mill Avenue, Sion Mills
The view the mill workers would have seen, when coming from work
Image: © Kenneth Allen
Taken: 10 Dec 2008
0.09 miles
10
The Gravenue on the Mourne at Sion Mills
A premier salmon pool in bygone days when accomplished anglers with 16 foot greenheart rods would live on the Gravenue during the height of the salmon fishing season.
Image: © Des Colhoun
Taken: 14 Jul 2001
0.09 miles