We will later upload this as one picture, when ALL will be included. For the moment have a go at putting names to these young faces! Additions/corrections on Guestbook, please!
Month: July 2005
Top Talent Slideshow
While we are waiting for the written report of the recent and hugely successful Top Talent Competition in the town, I just thought you’d like a sneak view of some of the participants!
From Omeath park Hotel
This is the view of Warrenpoint Port from the newly-refurbished Park Hotel in Omeath.
Fews Mines and Forests
Newtownhamilton, says an old copy of the Armagh County Guide, is named after its founder who in 1770 established a settlement here in the
Tom McKeown’s boot
1947 was the coldest winter in living memory, the year of the big snow. It fell and lasted for weeks. Indeed, it was the year of birth of Newry Journal’s editor and you’d know by the look of him that first cold winter stunted his growth!!
The Mill Horn
Watches were expensive and not in vogue with ordinary people in those days. In any case, we didn’t need them! There were many ways to tell the time; there were the trains, the church clock and the mill horns, for example.
Uncle Raymond Carroll
My Uncle Raymond was a jack-of-all-trades. He could be called upon by his brothers and sisters to paint, paper, clear drains, in fact anything that needed to be done about the house he was their man. For years we believed him when he said that he was teaching the pups to swim whenever our bitch Toby gave birth to a litter.
Parkhead Trip 1984
That was the question asked by our bus driver as we were about to set off from the AOH Club in Newry to go on one of our early trips to