I met Martin Goss in the Irish and Local Studies Library in In the Independent Club many years ago, the playing of cards in the Band Room was a common occurrence. This took place on most nights but Sunday afternoon and evening was the best time for the game of cards – whether it was rummy, poker or pontoon. The public is respectfully informed that the renowned Doctor Taylor from Manchester, universally known as the water-doctor ……… Dear Agnes, I am a modern man. I can accept that women have their shortcomings. Especially as they grow older, they cannot be expected, for example, to maintain the same quality of housekeeping as when they were younger. The I read in the trivia pages of a national newspaper lately of a device patented by a What could I do indeed? I had little formal education having left school in St Bride’s when I was half-way through grade seven – and no marketable skills. This is rather a delicate matter, Agnes, so I hope I can rely on your discretion! I trust I am not too late to enrol on an evening course at the Newry Institute? By late October the wheat fields surrounding our house since our arrival were all shorn and empty. All that remained, a short distance away, seeming forlorn and lonely in the vast sea of grey stubble, was a huge pile of straw. One of the more interesting intellectual pursuits one might follow in middle age is tracing one’s family roots. Begin with the living: …….. 1 T Cronin MD 2 Rev William Moore 3 Joseph Slane 5 Mrs Graham 7 Newry Hotel (T Heaney) 9 Thomas Smith This historic building, on the way into Bessbrook was recently demolished. There are very few remaining anywhere in the district. They were located close to rivers where water could be diverted and utilised as a source of power.Local Studies Library at risk!
Tossed out of the Independent Club
Travelling Clinic
Grass Widows
Ship Canal history
Mutual back-scratching
Taking night classes
Eye candy sought
From Sunnyside to St Bride’s
Cowan Street 1914: more …
1914 Cowan Street
Bailey’s Foundry
