Dana at Ideal Home Exhibition, Newry

That's what I certainly find while re-discovering my collection of negatives - All kinds of everything!

This batch shows Dana being trailed in her every move around an Ideal Homes Exhibition in Newry Town Hall in the early 1980's. I even put her on an exercise bicycle (cringe) I think this might have been where my paparazzi brand of photography started and ended!

The large crowd in one of the photos shows just how much everyone was after an "Ideal Home" in the 80's. Fresh faces include Sean and Ita McElvanna from Newry Computer Centre and Frank and Aileen Dolaghan.

Aileen who had her own framing and mounting business in WIN and I can testify to the longevity of her work as I still have a couple of her board mounted prints in the house.

I was working for the Newry and Mourne Weekly at the time, a paper that was owned by the Newry and Mourne Co-Op.

Sorry but it appears that I have spent this last 25 years walking on this particular set of negatives. It did take me a while to work out how to expose a photograph correctly  and also how to develop the film without the dust of the countryside finding it's way on to it!

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