The last cottage in the Brown’s Yard row, number four was the home of the Hamill family. After the houses in Brown’s Yard were condemned and demolished, the Hamills would move to the newly renovated housing at
Brown’s Yard : End
Reminiscence
Meadow: Helen’s Terrace
Helen’s Terrace in The Meadow was there long before the great housing estate was first constructed in the late 1940s. Indeed then they were the only homes in a kilometre radius – except for the isolated cottage of ‘Sticks’ Morgan’s people a little further along the Pighall Loanan.
In the bar in Kilkeel
Then one quiet day when I was about ten, I made my way into a public bar in Kilkeel because I thought no one was there.
Corr’s Field 1957: the ‘boat’
Down there close to Helen’s Terrace and near the bridge facing McClelland’s enclosure we each in turn pressed down with one hand on the strand of barbed wire atop the low stone wall that separated us from Corr’s Field and threw a leg over to the other side.
Meadow: 1957
In this the 60th anniversary of The Meadow housing estate we continue our occasional series of reminiscences of growing up there in the long-ago!
‘Not unlike the season we are presently enduring, that Spring of 1957 had so far been wild, wet and windy.
Addresses in Newry: 1
What with the huge expansion of our town in recent years, there are probably many of our exiles who could not find their way around the residential districts any more. For your benefit here is a list, each address coupled with others in the same area.
Brown’s Yard: Haunted House
I must apologise to our regular contributors – and especially to Martin Payne – whose articles have been sidelined for the duration of the Dr
The Bullets game
I was a little unfair to AA: if you look carefully you will see the ‘bullet’ still in the right hand of this acrobatic player. Anyway here is AA’s story!
‘So after so many years of hoping to see what a Bullets match was truly like, I got my wish on Sunday 2nd March 2008.
Brown’s Yard: 2
We have gone back to a warm day in June almost eighty years ago; in fact to be precise it is 29 June 1929. Our location is High Street, Newry, at a point about one hundred metres downhill from that corner where St. Clare’s Avenue would later be erected.