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Hughie Farren and his lorry making its way around Clonmany in the 1920s
Clonmany Genealogy & Heritage Group will present an exhibition entitled Horses to Horsepower - Transport through the ages in Inishowen.
The event will take place in the Market House, Clonmany, on Saturday, April 26, and Sunday 27, and they are looking for the public’s help with the project.
The Farren family with their bicycles
The exhibition will look at changing modes of transport in Inishowen over the last 150 years. Hard working committee members are busy gathering material for the exhibition, including photos, books, artefacts and records on everything from pony and traps to cars, tractors, bicycles, motorcycles and scooters, rail transport, buses and even prams!
The Genealogy & Heritage Group would love to include material from local families and from further afield. If you have any photographs, etc, you would like to include in the exhibition, please contact the Group on 086-6092369 or by email at clonmanygenealogygroup@gmail.com. The Group would like to reassure people that any photos or documents provided will be scanned and the originals returned without delay.
Clonmany Genealogy & Heritage Group PRO, Hugh Farren, said: “We’re sure there is a rich history of local transport locked away in boxes and albums in homes around Inishowen. We are asking people to please share that history with us. Perhaps it’s a family member posing beside a car, tractor, bicycle or motorcycle. Or maybe it’s someone who has emigrated and sent home photos to their family in Inishowen. Did you have someone who worked on the trains or buses? Whatever it is, we’d love to see it.”
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This is the first exhibition of the year for the Clonmany Group, and they are expecting another large attendance at the Market House following on from a number of successful exhibitions there last year. Plans are already well advanced for another exhibition to take place in August, during National Heritage Week.
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