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It was the early 60s.  Many working men still wore cloth caps, like the man passing John Temples in the background.

Read moreBig Clock

Originally posted 2009-12-08 09:01:48. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Yes, in the early years we walked to school.  I vividly remember walking down the Camlough Road in the dark, on a winter morning, and seeing flashes lighting up the sky.  

No, it wasn’t lightning.  It was Bessie, the Bessbrook tram, heading along the meadows towards the terminus at Edward Street. 

Read moreDerrybeg: Bessie Flashes

Originally posted 2006-06-01 00:13:06. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

One cold frosty morning in the mid nineteen sixties, just a few hundred yards further on along the towpath from Riley’s Lock there occurred an extremely sad incident. 

Read morePersonal tragedy : Canal/towpath

Originally posted 2008-12-02 23:20:12. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Time is no respecter of our sensibilities.

Read moreDromantee ladies 1972

Originally posted 2006-05-23 00:00:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Our next nearest neighbours in Sunnyside was the Morley family who lived a mile off down the road.

Read moreSunnyside: Kathy Morley

Originally posted 2006-09-05 14:15:31. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

In recognition of the efforts of Ann Mullan and those others arranging a High Street Reunion in August, we print here the early reminiscences of that famous High Street lady Miss Ethel Fitzpatrick.

Read moreHigh Street: Miss Ethel

Originally posted 2004-05-29 00:00:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

I read with interest the Linenhall Square article by Dickie Rodgers. I was born there and lived all of the early part of my life in and around the Linenhall Square area.

Read moreLinenhall Ghosts

Originally posted 2006-01-22 11:44:44. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Luminary of the Arts in Newry, the Music & Orchestral Society and Newpoint Players in particular, Sean Murtagh is one of the earliest residents of Ballinlare Gardens and, with his wife Marie, is thankfully still living there. He afforded us the benefit of his early recollections.

Read moreBallinlare Gardens

Originally posted 2005-11-28 22:07:46. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Discipline in the family was down to mother. I can recall only one occasion when my father punished me. I was swinging an old bicycle pump round my head in the street…

Read moreDiscipline at home

Originally posted 2008-10-23 22:27:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter