Down Memory Lane in the Mournes

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Location

Silent Valley Dam

Year

2017

Date

Length

24min 42sec

Audio

sound

Format

Digital

colour

Source

Mourne Mountains Landscape Partnership

Courtesy

Mourne Mountains Landscape Partnership, Northern Ireland Screen, TACA

Rights Holder

Lord Wakehurst, Mourne Mountains Landscape Partnership, Newry Mourne and Down District Council, Norman Ervine, Northern Ireland Water, Tourism NI, Translink, Visit Britain, Waddell Media

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Description

The Mourne Mountains provide Belfast with its water. It is also the source of much of the distinctive granite that makes up some of the city's most famous monuments and buildings. This documentary explores the stories of some of the people who maintain the Silent Valley Reservoir and built an industry on Mourne granite. The film was commissioned by Mourne Mountains Landscape Partnership (MMLP) to tell the story of the Binnian Tunnel and mourne granite. It combines footage from the Digital Film Archilve with material gathered by MMLP with new interviews and new footage by TACA. The film was part of the BFI's Coast and Sea programme.

The film was shown in Newcastle Community Cinema in October 2017 to an audience was packed with friends, neighbours and family. It is also on display in the NI Water Interpretive Centre at the Silent Valley.

 

Credits

This film was made possible by the Mourne Mountains Landscape Partnership to celebrate the special landscape in which they live and work. 

Special thanks to Willie Davey, Hazel Ervine and Alan, Harvey and Wesley McConnell for their valuable time and contributions to this film. 

 

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