Write a comment
Unwanted Items? - Place your Classified Adverts here for FREE for a limited period! To place an advert you must REGISTER on the site on the left below the Menu and then just follow the online instructions.
Write a comment
Thank you for registering at Newry.info.
Your account has been Created but must be Activated before you can use it.
Please check your email account and Click on the activation link to complete your registration.
Write a comment
The Newry.info Forum is now open to anyone to post a message WITHOUT logging in!
Feel free to post anything of interest
Write a comment
Photographer Columba O'Hare has been taking photos out and about around Newry for years and years now and at long last has started to convert his collection from Negative to Digital. The photographs span from the early 1980's onwards and while it only seems like yesterday (to him anyway) the fashion and decor of places seem to suggest different.
By publishing them on www.newry.info on a regular basis we hope to provoke a bit of nostalgia and craic and via our link to Facebook to show them to as large an audience as physically possible.
The number of photographs are daunting - well over 2000 films, some better labeled than others so for the ones he has scant information for it would be great to hear from someone who knew more of the time/ location/ place etc.
Well you have to begin somewhere and this marks the start of a journey from gelatin to pixels, goodness knows how long it will take or if any of us will survive to see the project finished but here goes ...
These photographs I believe were taken at the International Ceilidhe House in Water Street, I would suggest Mid 1980's. I don't recognise too many but Jimmy Burns appears and could that be Bernard O'Hanlon from Mullaghbane in one of them? - i'm not sure!
{igallery id="1867" cid="2" pid="2" type="classic" children="1" showmenu="1" tags="" limit="0"}
Write a comment
I think these photographs were taken in August 1983 but as usual I could be out a year or two.
I can't remember who the Artist is.
In fact the only people I would recognise instantly would be Council Chairman Jim McCart and Nan Sands who was probably the Vice Chairman at the time?
{igallery id="6354" cid="3" pid="2" type="classic" children="1" showmenu="1" tags="" limit="0"}
Write a comment
I would love to know more about this event. It appears to be the early 1980's and the photographs were obviously taken in the Scout Hall at Home Avenue and then a Parade took place.
Lifelong Scout Bertie Flynn makes an appearance but as to putting names to anyone else I'm lost!
{igallery id="7809" cid="11" pid="2" type="classic" children="1" showmenu="1" tags="" limit="0"}
Write a comment
I took these photographs for the Newry and Mourne Weekly Newspaper in the early 1980's. The quality isn't so hot and the negatives aren't as pristine as they should be but it was my early days. They were taken at the Middle Bank or Saint Christopher's Park as it became down at the Albert Basin.
It's hard to believe that they show a Newry that existed just 30 Years ago.
I think the story was to highlight the conditions of the Travelling Community living in Newry at the time.
The conditions certainly were very difficult and it's hard to imagine how hard it would have been to grow up there.
The only thing that doesn't seem to have changed much are Daisy Hill Hospital and the design/use of Shopping Trollies!
{igallery id="9721" cid="15" pid="2" type="classic" children="1" showmenu="1" tags="" limit="0"}
 |
 |
 |
