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Boat hire on the Blackwater – 17th century vs. 21st century

October 24, 2018/0 Comments/in Things To Do... /by Amy

Known as the Irish Rhine, the Blackwater was well advertised to tourists and day trippers alike throughout the nineteenth century. As we draw to an end of another successful season of trying to keep life on the Blackwater a float we look back on what we added to our dock this year and how it […]

De Wadden on the Blackwater

May 9, 2018/0 Comments/in Industrial Hertiage /by alan

On the 8th May 1958 the famous schooner De Wadden made her final trip on the River Blackwater. This week is the 60th Anniversary of this voyage. The De Wadden made 43 passages on the Blackwater between 1936 and 1958. No more schooners came up the river after the De Wadden’s final trip, as the […]