Heritage Week from Brennan's Hardware, and the Community Centre

A quick catch-up on heritage displays, this time with Brennan's Hardware window which highlights family and business backgrounds through many decades of the 20th century, writes Brian Byrne.

The aerial photograph is particularly fascinating, as it shows many buildings and a few businesses which are no longer in existence.

The Denis Brennan land and auctioneering business is recalled by advertisements in 1918, and a note on the family lineage that followed his death that same year puts things into today's perspective. What I didn't know was that the family were, like mine, also in the funeral undertaking business, evidenced by the invoice from 1945.

The pictures here are courtesy of Mary Brennan.

Over in the Community Centre there are presentations from the files of the Centre itself, including contemporary newspaper reports from its opening in 1982.

Sets of streetscapes and portraits by PJ Lydon are also triggers for memory.

Also in the Conroy Room are displays from the Pitch & Putt Club, the Kilcullen Scouts, the Kilcullen Badminton Club, and probably more since I was down there on Sunday.

For anyone who is recently moved into Kilcullen, this week is an excellent one to find out much about where they have come to. It is their heritage now, too.

Heritage Week 2019 runs until the weekend, and a number of businesses and organisations have signed up to provide a display for the Kilcullen 700 competition, the prizes for which are sponsored by Bank of Ireland, Kilcullen. The links below are to some of the other entries so far covered on the Diary.

A Main Street walk of nostalgia.

A steamer trunk's story in Secret Kloset.

Music, games and books in Woodbine's Heritage Week window.

More beautiful memory pieces in Sharon's Perfect Image. 

Ger's Fruit and Veg brings memories back. 

Julie's tableau of 50s home memory. 

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