Past Times
Our heritage photo this week comes from Ger Mason’s archive and shows the famous garage owner, Mick Sargent, standing at his petrol pumps on Main Street during the 1960s. What may not be clearly visible is some of the detail from the background. When magnified, you can see that Bridie Gallagher was due to perform in the Boathouse, according to the poster in the window, while the price of petrol was also interesting. For £5, you could buy 11 gallons of ESSO. If we take it that £5 was worth about €6.35 in euro, and 11 gallons is the same as about 50 litres, that makes the price of a litre of petrol in the 1960s at around 12 cent in today’s money. Ouch!
Foroige’s Got Talent
After al the great local excitement with Brendan Grace and other events last weekend, this weekend it is the turn of Foroige clubs from all over Waterford to grace the stage at Cappoquin Community Centre. Our club members have been working hard at two short acts, one a dance act and the other a comedy sketch. They and their mentors have given this a good go, and had a laugh in between, so best of luck to them next Friday night.
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