The summers would be very hot then and I loved the summer schemes in St Patrick’s school where we spent many a day playing table tennis with a man called Seamey Crawley who would be supervising.
Meadow of 1970s .. concluded
Reminiscence
The Meadow Shops …
I remember once during the summer my father hired a sky blue Volkswagen Beetle out for a few days from
Meadow Memories of 1970s
The happiest days of my life (and the best foundation stone of any child’s life) were spent in the Meadow, where I was born in 1967 :
Newry’s Labour Leaders
Dickie Rodgers has suffered a few strokes recently and this is on top of a serious illness he has been fighting for more than a decade. But Dickie is nothing if not a fighter and even in his eighties he is a lively conversationalist.
Great Coal Rush 1951
In 1951 the
Christian Bros, Kilmorey Street
Joe and Walter Morgan attended the Christian Brothers’ School in
Growing up in Erskine Street
The original Erskine Street houses were built for military officers, and were highly esteemed. Those who lived in them were considered as ‘swanks’.
Ambulance Crew redundant!
Ambulance men and their families had to cope with the difficulties and vagaries of a divided society, not just at work but at home too.