Mrs Kelly’s door-knocker
One cannot imagine an object like a brass doorknocker to be the cause of so much trouble for a young teenage girl, but as is always the case for young people of those tender years, trouble is always lurking somewhere close to hand.
Dudley Bagenal
Nor did ALL the Bagenal family hold true to the officially-sanctioned line of succession to the English throne! From the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of 1836 (another useful general history source) we learn the following regarding the Bagenal property acceded to Creely in Carneyhaugh …
Wee Monkey of a Thing
Most of the fairies lived in underground caves [souterrains] having secret entrances in the fairy forths on the hillsides round about.
One such forth remains almost intact on McGreevy’s hill in the townland of Ballywinny [‘town of the ancient tree’] in the Cabra district. It is called Doras na Bruidhne [the palace entrance] which frankly, says it all.
1935 Linenhall Square 1-18
I twice promised to return to list the early residents of Linenhall Square and I am finally returning to fulfil that promise.
Hugh Mallon
My story on ‘The Hobbies’ brought back to Martin Auden memories of his grandfather, Mr Hugh Mallon who frequented the ‘Housey Housey’ each night. As Martin added, ‘Hugh was there more for the social aspect than for the prize money’. This is my own story of Hugh Mallon who I remember from those early Bingo days.
A Visit to Chester
My wife and I visited
Hughie Interred
Hughie’s friend, who was with him at the end, came to the funeral. He had tried to lift the car off his shattered chest. Ignoring everyone else as he entered, he headed straight for the small bedroom when Hughie’s body lay at rest. He left soon after.
Jenny Mitchel
She was the daughter of Mary Ward who was herself the daughter of a coachman on the Church Hill estate of the Verners of Loughgall. Indeed one of these Verners was the first Grand Master of the Orange Order in the previous generation.
Kilkeel horse sales
On market days and fair days our little streets were crowded with farm horses and carts. In the big stable yards behind the public houses the dealers sold their animals to the country men. We were much more interested …
Diagonal Steam Trap [2]
Now the engineer eyed the designer
An’ the designer, he looked at ‘The Hat’
An’ they whispered, the one till the other,
‘Diagonal Steam Trap? ………….. What’s that?’
Carlingford of mid-18th century
When they thought it safe to journey through Ireland (i.e. when the ‘natives’ were sufficiently subjugated) various English gentlemen-of-leisure ventured to the smaller island, to give account, in books, diaries and journals, of the new countryside they had explored and the valiant efforts of their fellow-countrymen to bring civilisation to the savages.
Final Army List – 1915
I have again received enquiries from people whose forebears served in the Great War but are not included in these lists. They may be comprehensive but obviously incomplete.