I must apologise to our regular contributors – and especially to Martin Payne – whose articles have been sidelined for the duration of the Dr
Brown’s Yard: Haunted House
Places
Brown’s Yard: 2
We have gone back to a warm day in June almost eighty years ago; in fact to be precise it is 29 June 1929. Our location is High Street, Newry, at a point about one hundred metres downhill from that corner where St. Clare’s Avenue would later be erected.
Brown’s Yard 1
Like any other town in this world Newry is constantly changing. Street names change, the layout of roads and streets alter, sometimes dr
McShanes/Turleys in 1950s
The photograph below was contributed. It depicts a few of the earliest families in the Meadow of the 1950s.
Brown’s Yard
A few weeks ago I had cause to scan a number of old family documents and pictures. To enable me to perform this operation I first had to remove some items from their frames.
Canal Street electors of 1946
You will doubtless be familiar with a number of the names in the following list of electors in the
Kilkeel carters
The carters usually sat on cross-boards when travelling light but when their vehicles were loaded with pink sucking piglets, calves or lambs, the driver walked alongside.
Kilkeel Square
With two notable exceptions each day of my life until I was fourteen was spent in and around Kilkeel.
1946 Slieve Gullion Road electors
By January 1950 the O’Hares had moved from