Fosters Coffee Shop

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The ‘in’ place on our way home from the Abbey Grammar School in the early 60’s was the Coffee Shop of Fosters, Newry’s only Department Store. 

Along the river

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So one sunny Sunday morning a few days later I headed out, armed with a camera.  I set off to find and photograph that place of childhood memories.

Place names in Irish

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annagh or anna:  marsh 

ard : height or high


 

Mill Street 1914

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Tony McAllister writes asking for information on his forebears, one of whom, Terance Murphy lived at 8 Mill Street in 1914.  These were his neighbours.  Also Joy Gardner requests information on her forebears who hailed from Mill Street. Her great  grandfather Edward Sheridan – married to Maggie – repaired shoes on this street.

Residents/Killeavey Road : B

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Continuing our occasional series on the residents of The Meadow on this occasion of the Sixtieth Anniversary, here is the second of two parts of the list of residents of Killeavey Road long ago.

Killeavey Road Residents List: A

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Continuing our occasional series on the residents of The Meadow on this occasion of the Sixtieth Anniversary, here is the first of two parts of the list of residents of Killeavey Road long ago.

Orior Road 1950s Electoral List

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I haven’t forgotten that this is the 60th anniversary of the Meadow estate.  Here is an electoral list from those early days.  Some of these residents soon moved to other addresses in The Meadow.  I am not aware if any of these good folk survive today.


Derrybeg: 6

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Some estates in the town, including Derrybeg were sealed off in the immediate…

Derrybeg

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But as the political situation in the North worsened after 1969 with the…

AA in drag

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This photo has just been received from a local press photographer who happened to be working last Saturday evening in the Canal Court Hotel.


Derrybeg Sports

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The genesis of Derrybeg’s community success came when a group of sportsmen decided to raise funds in order to provide a strip for the local soccer team.

Newry atrocity

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Religious fanaticism, the scourge of the twenty-first century political world merely reflects that of the seventeenth century in Europe.