After all that work, it is little wonder that we favoured a great fanfare launch when – at long last – our new ball-bearing buggy was ready to be inflicted upon an unwary world!
John McCullagh
Hippy and Cornerboy …
After the disaster with the boiled chicken, I learned quick and there were lots of good feeds in my house. Like I said, the younger fellows had to bring something to the house …..
Red Hot Poker here!
As intimated already, the two axles of your ball-bearing buggy had to be flat and not bowed. If they were bowed, the steering didn’t work properly. I remember a number like that, and the frantic and unsuccessful efforts of owners to plane the offending wood back to a level surface!
Edwardian Elegance: Slides
The previous slideshow of Old Newry Elegance was well-received – so here are seven more slides for you to view!
Gamble Murder: The grisly remains ..
Her younger daughter Eleanor accompanied Mrs Margaret Gamble and Bob McCullough down to the nearby cross-roads.
They found
Elegant Newry Centre
They were more elegant – if less affluent – times, as portrayed in these seven slides of Newry a century or more ago!
Pearl Gamble missing ….
Charles Ashe was out walking his greyhounds as usual early on the morning of Saturday 28th January 1961 when he stumbled upon a single black shoe lying in the middle of the road a few hundred yards beyond Ellen Vale on the
Eastwood Vault
The small stone building that stands in the centre of the graveyard has often been speculated upon. It is however widely accepted now as the Eastwood Family Vault.