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Donaghadee memories
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Mother's home
An amazing photo for me as it shows the house in Bow Street where my mother lived with her parents. In 1929, she was 12 years-old. What a feeling to think my grandparents would have heard the plane passing overhead as it took the photo.
They were Robert and Martha McKibben and their daughter, my mother was Nan (Anne).
robert walker - toronto, canada
Contributed by robert walker
County Down memories
Mother's home
An amazing photo for me as it shows the house in Bow Street where my mother lived with her parents. In 1929, she was 12 years-old. What a feeling to think my grandparents would have heard the plane passing overhead as it took the photo.
They were Robert and Martha McKibben and their daughter, my mother was Nan (Anne).
robert walker - toronto, canada
A memory of Donaghadee contributed by robert walker
Home again
I remember this shot very well. My dad had his fishing boat there, he would take us to Bangor for the day from this spot. To be sure some of you would remember Geordy McFall. My uncle Hammie Loughlin once gave me a beautiful night shot of the castle all lit up from this view, unfortunately apparently too beautiful as the picture was later stolen during a move. It is amazing to me to see this shot - makes me homesick!!!!!
Michelle Feist (McFall).
A memory of Carrickfergus contributed by michael feist
Coffee |Bar Cowboys
After school - Belfast Royal Academy - a liitle gang of us would take the bus down to Royal Avenue and head for the Lombard restaurant in Lombard Street. It was a very comfortable, spacious place, founded by the Ulster Temperance Society and open evenings too, where you could sit as long as you liked, with waitress service, over a cup of tea. It'd be packed with school students in the mid-late afternoon.
Later we transferred our loyalties to Isibeal's coffee bar, down a narrow street opposite the City Hall. It was smaller and quieter there. Matthew and Joyce looked after us and let us sit for hours over that single cup of tea. Van ...read more here
A memory of Belfast contributed by John McMillan