Sandmill Strollers

The Strollers continued walking during the summer months and even though the numbers were smaller than in previous months we enjoyed each of our walks. In July we visited St Anne’s Park in Clontarf, walking through the grounds of the property, which previously was owned by one of the Guinness…

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Sandford Church Organ

Though from the outside little seems different, inside the organ huge changes are taking place. At the moment repairs and alterations to the great soundboard are being made before the installation of new pipes to replace old damaged ones. Once this is completed, a whole array of new sounds will…

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St Philip’s Church Organ

The organ of St Philip’s was completed in February 1939, replacing a Telford organ built in 1896, which is now in All Saints’ Church, Grangegorman. The new organ made use of theatre organ technology, and reports at the time considered it to be state of the art. Unfortunately, the experimental…

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Garden of Remembrance

The project continues to gather momentum and the recent granting of planning permission means that we can move towards the construction phase. The job will shortly be put out to tender with building probably commencing in Spring 2017. There are now 37 plots ‘booked’ and prices are fixed to the…

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Summer Music at Sandford

Our annual Summer Music at Sandford series concluded on Friday 26 August in spectacular fashion with a witty and entertaining piano duet recital by Jonathan Lycett and Stuart Nicholson, which completed a series of great musical variety and consistently high quality. Our thanks to all the performers, and also to…

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