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Hi Dave,
If the church faces south rather than the traditional east west then you can play amazing tricks with the sun entering the building and illuminating certain features on feast days and other holy dates. I'll e-mail a stunning example from here.

Cheers
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Hi Kevin,

Great to hear from you But I also have goosebumps now. I was in Wexford a few months after your visit so knew of SA connections. Mum had in the distant past corresponded with Helen and I tried to find out more just ove 3 years ago but unfortunately Mum had misspelt Whyte with a I. The reason for looking for you was that I was going to South Africa for the best part of a month. 3 years ago in August I made the same jorney but in reverse order Cape Town, Mossel Bay, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban. That gives me a strange feeling.

I received your post on Tuesday but was hurrying off to stay with Mum for a few days so didn't have time to reply. Mum was pleased to read the post, she thought that sometimes Bressie was referred to as Bresty, but wasn't sure. Whilst we were chattiing the Olympics was on quietly in the background. Mum pointed at the screen and said thats one of 'ours'. A Walsh was being interviewed in Beijing. he is Mum's second cousin so presumably yours. I will post you are link to some video of him.

So Walshs popping up all over the place. From Joe Snrs side there about 40 descendants in England and a few in Holland and Italy. Lannigan has at least 6 Grt grt grt grandchildren here and I loose track of the Walshs in Wexford. I've attended a retirement party and golden wedding in Wexford in the last few years and it is like walking into a hall of mirrors. The family resemblance through the generations is startling.

I will send my e-mail address to bring you up to speed with living relatives.

Very best wishes

Tony

Thanks for your help Nick, you certaintly are an authority on all things Wexford.

Nice one Ken

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Lovely maps Barbara, well done your Mum
I can visualise those buildings which I knew so well. In particular the Apollo. I once got lost there in a smog, the buses had stopped running. Yeah buses not trams .

You couldn't even read the street signs so the only way I could find my way home was to follow the London Rd and take the left fork at the Apollo. We had so much fun in those days, and you try telling that to the kids of today........................................................................Yeah well, I was always a Monty Python fan But in irony is also truth

And Bill your memory serves you well, well at least mine is the same as yours about the surrounding area. I looked at Greg's tonite and it does say Nicholl's Hospital. Very gothic and i couldnt see any evidence of an earlier building.

Adam Faith I ask you? but I did see some pretty obscure bands in and around Manchester in the sixties, the obscure Beatles, Who and a memorable response of mine, do you fancy going to the Twisted Wheel to watch the Rolling Stones? Who? And now I've done it, totally off topic, the Wheel next to the fire station.

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I believe in RootsChat wholeheartedly, but can we really be responsible for the consequences of a minii meet in Preston in 2012. That would be one heck of a party to cause all of that.

 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ci1n_doomsday-2012-preview_events

 
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