It has been suggested that this was a reaction to offence caused by the Governor-General of Canada, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis who was of Northern Irish descent and who allegedly arranged to have placed symbols of Northern Ireland, notably a replica of the famous Roaring Meg cannon used in the Siege of Derry, in front of Costello at a state dinner.

Waitiri Station is the major ranch of the Kawarau Gorge and runs from the Bungy Bridge to the Roaring Meg on SH6.

" Roaring Meg ( cannon ) | Roaring Meg ", a surviving example of a civil-war Mortar ( weapon ) | mortar

* Musty, A. E. S. ( 2007 ) Roaring Meg: Test Firing a Copy of Colonel Birch's Civil War Mortar.

It has been suggested that it was a spur of the moment reaction to offence caused by the Governor-General of Canada, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis who was of Northern Irish descent and who allegedly placed symbols of Northern Ireland, notably a replica of the famous Roaring Meg cannon used in the Siege of Derry, before an affronted Costello at a state dinner.

Finally, in late June, the Royalist fled, having observed a Parliamentarian army, including a Roaring Meg siege cannon approaching the town.

Fairfax's men began to dig trenches towards the castle, and used these to move mortars forward, probably including the famous " Roaring Meg ", bringing the interior of the castle into artillery range.

Kawarau River with Roaring Meg hydro station

The Roaring Meg Hydro Scheme discharges into the Kawarau, and at times the lower station has been flooded by the river.

Below these are the dangerous Nevis Bluff, Citroen and Roaring Meg sections.

They met at Hopton Heath and were attacked there by the Royalists, whose force consisted of about 1, 100 cavalry, 100 foot and artillery, including a large artillery piece called " Roaring Meg ".

Roaring Meg may refer to:

* Roaring Meg ( cannon ), any of several large siege cannon

* Roaring Meg ( Stevenage ), a retail park in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England

* Roaring Meg ( waterfall ), a waterfall in the Daintree National Park in North Queensland, Australia

:* rugged mountain peaks and gorges with swiftly flowing rivers and spectacular waterfalls ( e. g., Thornton Peak, Mossman Gorge, Roaring Meg Falls );

During the Civil War he commanded Goodrich Castle, defending it against the Parliamentarians until July 1645 when Colonel John Birch finally broke the defences using the famous cannon Roaring Meg.

A " Roaring Forties " replica of a 1965 Ford GT40 in Shelby livery on display at the 2005 United States Grand Prix

He also had a great interest in ferryboats, at his fiancee's suggestion, their marriage was performed on the Roaring Bull boat, part of the Millersburg Ferry, in the middle of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.

* Brighton, Catherine, Keep Your Eye on the Kid: The Early Years of Buster Keaton ( 2008 ) Roaring Brook Press ( An illustrated children's book about Keaton's career )

Great Lakes piracy occurred, from 1900 – 1930, on Lake Michigan, through the exploits of " Roaring " Dan Seavey.

Chicago cabaret focused intensely on the larger band ensembles and reached its peak during Roaring Twenties, under the Prohibition Era, where it was featured in the speakeasies and steakhouses.

The spaghetti western Four of the Apocalypse is based on " The Outcasts of Poker Flat " and " The Luck of Roaring Camp ".

Manfred Mann's Earth Band released a version of " Blinded by the Light " on their album The Roaring Silence, which reached # 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 on 19 February 1977 and # 1 on the Canadian RPM chart the same day.

This one is still in use on the Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad in Felton, California

* Lodge on the Roaring Fork

The greenbelt along the Snake River hosts many community events, such as the Melaleuca Freedom Celebration ( on the Fourth of July ), the Roaring Youth Jam, and the Farmers ' Market, among others.

Roaring Brook Falls, on the Giant Mountain trail, near St. Huberts

It was thinly disguised as " West Egg ," in counterpoint to Manor Haven / Sands Point, which was the inspiration for the more posh " East Egg " ( the next peninsula over on Long Island Sound ), Great Neck symbolized the decadence of the Roaring Twenties as it extended out from New York City to then-remote suburbs.

The canal made use of the Kiskiminetas River using a system of slackwater dams, and the boats floated on the river, entering a lock located at the mouth of Roaring Run.

The Roaring Spring Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

This decorative practice, fairly common on houses built from 1900 to 1920 by the Roaring Spring Planing Mill Co., can be seen in other period buildings around the Morrisons Cove area where the Planing Mill's contractors are known to have worked.

These are substantial yet loosely eclectic variations on the Queen Anne and Gothic Revival styles as rendered by builders from the Roaring Spring Planing Mill.

Operated as a heating coal and building supply business with a contracting service on the side, the mill is credited with constructing most of the houses and other buildings of note in Roaring Spring between 1887 and the early 1950s.

And while Roaring Spring's patriarchal management may have desired orderly community development, it did not impose a blatantly class-structured environment on its work force.

The new worker housing built from that year forward took on the same architectural character as Roaring Spring's after 1878.

One of the borough's early leading citizens, he is credited with building many pre-1887 structures in Roaring Spring before the Roaring Spring Planing Mill's founding, including a number of houses on the south side of E. Main Street between Spang and Poplar Streets.

The county's three other major streams, all of which flow into the Yadkin, are the Reddies River, Roaring River, and Mulberry Creek.

Roaring River State Park is located in the southern part of the county, amid the Mark Twain National Forest.

Fryingpan River and the Roaring Fork River intersect the southwest corner of the county.

Visitors also engage in nearby skiing ( both alpine and cross-country ), biking or hiking to the waterfalls, streams and lakes in the area, including nearby Falls of the McCloud River, Burney Falls, Mossbrae Falls, Lake Siskiyou, Castle Lake and Shasta Lake, or visiting the ruins of one of the great nightclubs or speakeasies from the heyday of the Roaring Twenties.

Chain-O-Lakes is a village in Roaring River Township, Barry County, Missouri, United States.

Chappaqua had great streams such as the Saw Mill River and Roaring Brook.

The Roaring Run Recreation Area is located one mile upriver of Apollo and can be accessed via the Apollo Kiski River Trail.

From there the canal ran along the path of the current Roaring Run Trail, through the entire length of the Borough, entering the Kiskiminetas River again across the river from where the current borough of East Vandergrift is situated.

Six Flags added rides found in bigger theme parks such as the wooden coaster called Rolling Thunder in 1979, The Buccaneer ( a swinging ship from Intamin ), Roaring Rapids ( now Congo Rapids, an Intamin River Rapids ride ), Parachuter's Perch ( now Parachute Training Center: Edwards AFB Jump Tower, an Intamin Parachute ride ) and Freefall ( later Stuntman's Freefall, an Intamin First Generation Freefall ), all before the park's tenth anniversary.

1980 saw very few changes while in 1981, the park added a water ride called Roaring Rapids ( now called Congo River Rapids ).

Winchester is drained by the Ashuelot River and Roaring Brook.

The tributaries of the White River include Cache River, Bayou des Arc, Little Red River, Black River, North Fork River, Buffalo River, James River, and Roaring River.

* Walloomsac River ( original path through downtown Bennington, name ends at confluence of Roaring Brook and South Stream ):