Frequent food parcels from American relations during World War II provided relief from the drudgery and shortages. I well remember the excitement of their arrival and the ritual of opening them. For me, apart from the food – spam, dried eggs, candy and chocolate, canned fruit etc, the most exciting part of the whole process was the comics.
Year: 2008
Towpath: Snipe
Again as with most of the lockkeeper cottages along the canal there were always the usual hens running around. I remember – when I was a young lad of about thirteen – Patsy Crawley who owned the grocery shop in Canal Street, paid me two shillings to take his big Labrador dog for a walk.
Arthur St/Aileen Terrace 1906
Few of our streets have remained substantially unaltered over the last century – but those featured below from the Newry Street Directory of 1906 are among them.
The suit and the coat …
The suit and the coat with the corduroy collar
Designed to make you believe
Their pressures in life are greater than yours
Because they have a degree
The Point of Carmel
For Oran Hunter: another ‘Point slideshow featuring two different snaps of his younger sister, our beloved Carmel bathing in the baths!
Newry Today
Mainly for the benefit of our exiles and emigres, here is a current slideshow of images of our town.
We will remember them
It is appropriate in November, the month of remembrance, that we print the photo below of Newry veterans of the War to end all Wars.
Desmond Rebellions
What is erroneously referred to in English history as the Desmond Rebellions occurred in (first) 1569-1573 and (second) 1579-1583 in Munster.