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BY ‘Times’ reporter

... understood will not be fighting the seat. The Party have fought most of the Westminster elections for Armagh since the Second World War, but 8 substantial decrease in membership in the mainly urban areas like Lurgan, Portadown and Armagh has forced the ...

Published: Wednesday 13 February 1974
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... his distinctive Scottish accent, even though he had lived in Portadown for almost 50 years. He left Scotland before the Second World War to work in the Palace Gate Hotel in London, and when war ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1998
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 69 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

These houses lacked all the basic amenities

... deplorable conditions. Very little council housing had been provided in Northern Ireland between the wars, and when the Second World War broke out in 1939 .v-“‘.w.—-v L : .:. .: W 3 @& ) ..L g [o e m N S ¢ N LIS ’:\‘ (.‘ J R _— .‘ ;:_“.”;.‘ 7 v ‘ ...

Published: Friday 07 February 1997
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 102 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WAR MEDALS

... WAR MEDALS Headed by standard-bearer Alex Hyde, whose row of Second World War medals gleamed in the sunlight, by the District officers and visiting officers, the parade stepped out of Carleton Street into a setting more reminiscent of a “Twelfth’ morning ...

Published: Friday 11 July 1997
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 88 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Banner unfurled at ‘Walk’

... banner will be paraded through the district, headed by Parkmount Flute Band and it replacesonein use since just after the Second World War. ...

Published: Friday 27 April 1979
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Today — and yesteryear

... was used by Portadown hockey teams. Later, Portadown Cricket Club played on the same ground for some years before the Second World War. ...

Published: Friday 15 March 1985
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Identity cards and the need to carry them at all times

... Identity cards and the need to carry them at all times ONE of the many innovations of the Second World War was the - introduction of identity cards. g ing to produce their ID cards when challenged. “1 have already fined 36 people in Armagh who failed ...

Published: Friday 10 August 2001
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 80 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BIAS

... to appear on television, or Danny Morrison to be quoted in the newspapers,” he said. There had been censorship in the Second World War and a form of censorship in the ...

Published: Friday 02 March 1984
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Many years service 1n Fusiliers

... Fusiliers, Mr. Taylor met most of the Irishmen who were to have distingished service with the regiment throughout the Second World War, including Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templar. ...

Published: Friday 31 August 1990
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 82 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Gilford boys see the police-for a good cause

... police-for a good cause visit to Culzean Castle, south of Ayr, where General Eisenhower had his headquarters during the second world war and a visitto the Electric Brae near Ayr. Here the boys were amazed when their coach stopped half-way down the hill and ...

Published: Friday 03 September 1976
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

Parade in the ‘Pass

... be taking part in a parade and service this Sunday to mark Remembrance Day and the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The ex-servicemen will parade from the Royal British Legion clubrooms to the service in Acton Parish Church, headed ...

Published: Friday 10 November 1995
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 88 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

VETERANS

... Belgium where they joined with the 4th Brigade Grenadiers in their wreathlaying ceremony to remember the dead of the Second World War. Alderman McCammick said the veterans were in Craigavon last May and that councillors from Armagh and Banbridge joined ...

Published: Friday 07 September 1990
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 3 | Tags: none