In your editor’s youth, there was only one soccer team always in contention for every trophy. That, of course was Rockview Rangers, which played its home games on the ‘Ropewalk’ behind High Street.
Reminiscence
The Christmas Knowall
Have you met him yet? … The Christmas Knowall.
The festive Sir Oracle who haunts all places of public resort. You can’t have missed him for he is unmistakable with his arched eyebrows and his condescending smile.
New Bucket, Gone!
From the early 40s onwards there was a great craze for ‘pitch and toss’. We played it in the ball alley nearby and the fellas pitched and tossed there till dark.
Edward Street Revisited
During my all too brief visit to Newry in 2005 I had an even briefer visit to Edward Street.
Please leave!
Later on, during the war, I joined the Home Guard. In the Home Guard they gave me a rifle and bullets as part of my outfit.
I had to work too! One of my early jobs was to ‘walk’ cattle.