New Year, time for another trip. This time we will head south from Derry~Londonderry towards Strabane. This is the former terminus of the County Donegal Railway. This followed the river south to Strabane where it crossed over into County Donegal. The narrow gauge line opened in 1900 and closed in 1954. Parts of the former station have since been used for a variety of uses including restaurant, shirt factory, bathroom showroom, office furniture showroom and bonded warehouse
New Year, time for another trip. This time we will head south from Derry~Londonderry towards Strabane. This is the former terminus of the County Donegal Railway. This followed the river south to Strabane where it crossed over into County Donegal. The narrow gauge line opened in 1900 and closed in 1954. Parts of the former station have since been used for a variety of uses including restaurant, shirt factory, bathroom showroom, office furniture showroom and bonded warehouse
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It was a day for staying home today. This is a drawing from sunnier times showing my extension of 2008. Its aim was to open the house up to the garden and southern views. The Living room window was dropped to ground level and now opens through sliding doors to a timber deck. A glazed conservatory has roof lights to ensure that the interior of the house behind is not darkened. Plastic windows were replaced in timber to a design that complemented the character of the original 1973 house. The work was published in Living Design in Autumn 2013
Closer into town. ‘Derry Quay’ as it appeared in the late nineteenth century. To the right is the graving dock, now filled in and used as Sainsbury’s car park.
Pennyburn Primary School, demolished in 2000, was also by Liam McCormick. A competition winning design with partner Frank Corr, it opened in 1950. Massive stone clad walls were contrasted with light glass filled partitions. Flat concrete roof slabs on single story portions were relieved by large circular roof lights. The whole gave a strong feeling of light and space
Steelstown Church, built in 1975, is nearby. It was designed by Liam McCormick on a tight budget but has a strong architectural presence. Inside, with a sawn timber roof, and hidden side lights, its tent like interior has great atmosphere
This house, off the Culmore Road, was designed by architect Frank Corr as his home in 1950.It is an elegant house, from a period when building materials were scarce, with gazing all along one side overlooking a fine garden, Between the two stations lay the city docks. This is a drawing of a photograph taken in 1978 before the docks moved upstream and most of the attendant warehouses were demolished.
. Hidden among the trees of the Glen however, are some structures dating from World War II, when this remote area, well away from potential targets, was used for storing the ammunition of American troops. Further along the Faughan, Brookhill House of 1795 is a fine Georgian House overlooking the river valley.
Drumahoe Bridge, nearby, dates from the Eighteenth Century and was widened to take the main road to Belfast when this was relocated from the southern side of the Faughan in the mid Nineteenth Century. Underneath, a change in stonework clearly indicates the line of the extension.
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