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Here's a batch from the 80's again showing three bonnie babies born in Daisy Hill Hospital, think they are from Bessbrook if my memory serves me well.
Then there is a couple of sports shots, kids rugby and darts and inside views of what you could buy in an electrical shop in Newry in the 80's - Small TV for £295 anyone?
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A small batch but a diverse mix. An Austin car sits with a damage to the side and a smashed window outside McIlroy's Butchers on Margaret St I think.
I don't know what the presentation photos are but I remember the Little Miss Meigh and Miss Meigh photographs
Sure how could I forget, using my good old lime green Kawasaki AR80 Motorbike as a prop in one of them. With my lime green bike, lime green helmet and lime green coat and waterproofs I cut a dapper figure whizzing through the South Armagh Countryside like a speeding radioactive Kingfisher!
How cool was I then!!!
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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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Here are some pics from when I was with the Newry and Mourne Weekly Newspaper at 72a Hill Street in the early 1980's. Some of the staff are included.
There are photographs of a Darts and Soccer player with their awards, a photo of a young lady outside the Town Hall, a couple of action photos from Newry Town (thank goodness my sports photography has improved a little bit!!!)
There is also a pic from Rockfort Carpets of Frank Dolaghan and Jim McCart, Council Chairman at the time and photos from a social night location unknown. It really was the heyday of the leather jacket!
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Here are a mix of 80's photos from the Convent of Mercy on Home Avenue ( I think) It must have been a reopening after renovations or such like?
There are also Abbey Christian Brothers presentation pics and groups of young people on the Warrenpoint Road for some reason. Also a group outside the Abbey National in Hill Street as well as a photograph maybe launching the Feis or Arts Festival.
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Here's another batch from the "should have exposed the film properly" collection but hey I was only a garcon and sure what did I know.
These include a Christmas function with the Knights of Saint Columbanus, a ladies golfing night, a Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann presentation night, a couple of photos from Newry Swimming Pool and the front of a Christmas Shop. These were all in the early 80's.
A few familiar faces but not too many!
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This collection includes photos from the demolition of a bit of Dominic Street in the mid 1980's.
Also the Newry Sports Awards, a young Rugby team taken by the looks of it at Carnbane, photographs in the Newry and Mourne Weekly Office at 71 Hill St, a pic taken in the Abbey Christian Brothers and a shot from the Ambassador on Hill St.
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These Photographs are from 1983 mostly. They include Housing Regeneration of Bessbrook, Sean McShane's Funeral, Newry Arts Awards and I think a Newry Show event.
I never cease to be amazed at what my films throw up at me and there is even one this time of my late mother Alice with friends.
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This batch takes in a youth boxing night probably the Sports Centre or the Bosco Club perhaps.
There is a Concern night on the go as well but don't know if it's the same function. Lastly there are five photos at the end that look as if they were taken somewhere else completely!
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