This is the penultimate slice of the great Windsor Hill pupils photo of 1957.
Reminiscence
Windsor Hill c. 1957
This terrific photo was emailed to me from Brian Dodds. His friends will be delighted to know he is recovering well from his recent illness. Sadly for us, he’s moving back to England. More of that later. Now, the photograph.
Ann Carroll: In Loving Memory
Throughout his long association with Journal, with your editor and with the other eejits of this site, never once did Tony Carroll ever complain about the harsh lot he was dealt in recent years, the trials he had to endure since his dear wife Ann was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease and the enormous pain he suffered as his life’s love degenerated physically before his eyes.
Darts at the Crown Bar
My but doesn’t time fly by? The Crown Bar is gone (now it’s McSwiggans and is run by Andrew Connolly, George’s son) and, sadly, so too are some of the Darts stars of yesteryear, pictured here.
Cecil Street, Newry, of old
Just for the Cecil Street young-at-heart, hoping this will jog a few memories!
I hope that I have got the addresses right!
Newry Vintners …
There was a time when several dozen local bar owners and their spouses attended the annual Vintners night-out in Newry.
Hector: in Penny Apples
On Santanta’s instigation I took another look recently at Bill Cullen’s ‘It’s a Long Way from Penny Apples’. A decade old now, it feels as if it’s of another age. And it tells of another earlier age, the 40s and 50s in working-class Dublin.
Water Street Electors 1946
Joe McCaigue and Gerry Montague wrote here recently on Guestbook, reminiscing on the residents of Water Street in days gone by.
They might be interested in this Electoral List dating from 1946.
Bell’s Row 1917
We are all descended from someone. Do any of you recognise any one from the following list of residents of Bell’s Row of 1917?