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1913 Tel. directory     1824 Pigots (Belfast)  &  (Bangor)    1894 Waterford Directory     1898 Newry Directory

 

2012
Directories adding alphabetical names list to 1908 now coming soon 1894 Street Directory
WW1   WW2 and 8th Belfast HAA Herbert Hanley 8th Belfast HAA 14th January 2012 Robert Thompson's WW1 Soldiers Ballycastle Heroes see all Robert's Heroes Robert Thompson's War Autograph Book by Gladys Crane Nurse - 2nd Jan Army Temperance Medal - Gilmore - 21st January 2012 Sports Medals - Brown; Warnock - 21st January 2012	MISC. Silver Golf Cup - Morris - 21st January 2012
2011 Hi all, very little new this year as I'm up to my armpits in family things at the minute, I have loads of new things to add including a photo of Bangor F.C. Team 1921, more WW1 Soldiers and some really nice photos of the Bothwell Family. Plus an extract from Coralie Kinahan's autobiography of her husband's time in Burma with the 8th Belfast HAA Regt., and I'm still transcribing the 1918 Belfast and Ulster Directory. finished                           Mary ~ 10th April 2011 updated 22nd December 2011
Street Directories      next - finish 1908 add alpha names and Counties      1918  started 1st August 2010 streets finished 20/2/11      Villages finished,    appendix etc. finished      Alpha names - started March '11 finished 23/9/11      Counties - finished and book completed 21/12/11	8th Belfast HAA new 22nd Battery photos added Harbinson - 23rd April 2011 new page added for J. C. Irvine - 23rd April 2011 new Coralie Kinahan's book extract - 23rd April 2011 Seac 1944 - January 2011
Lost People and Places and Photos new information for John Campbell WW1 23rd April 2011 new assorted alphabetical names added  29th May & 5th June 2011 New photos of Bangor Boathouse and Tower  29th May 2011 Photo of Bangor F. C. 1921 - 1922  18th July 2011 Photo of Bangor Long Hole and Boathouse  4th August 2011 Carricknaveagh National School  8th August 2011 New Savoy Hotel   10th August 2011 S. W. T. C. Rugby Team 1933 etc. - 29th August 2011	WW1 & WW2 (except 8th Belfast) WW1 Soldiers Database - updated 29th May 2011 WW2 Soldiers Database - updated 8th December 2010 WW1 Memorial Stone from St. Enoch's - Paul Gilchrist Pollock - 28th August 2011 Belfast Civil Defence 1944 - 29th August 2011 Misc. Mackie's Magazine Christmas Edition 1943  9th August 2011 Baptism Certificate for Philip Vincent Mooney, no address 25th August 2011
2010  - most recent at bottom of each list
DIRECTORIES I wasn't planning on transcribing any more street directories but Proni aren't planning to put their post-1900 directories online any time soon so .. here I go again go to PRONI  for  DIRECTORIES  pre 1900     1918  started 1st August 2010 streets finished 20/2/11     Villages finished,    appendix etc. finished     Alpha names - started March '11 finished 23/9/11     Counties   Pigots 1824  Belfast  &  Bangor   11/10/2010 19 Ava Street to 100 Avoniel Road  1959   19/7/2010 102 Avoniel Road to 26 Balfour Avenue 1959   19/7/2010 couple of pages added to scanned assorted streets section 1940  14/10/10 more streets added to above for 1970  22/02/11 NEW page of assorted alphabetical names, various years  24/10/10	PHOTOS lost individuals new photo added great aerial photo of Groomsport around 1930 Football team 1900-1901 J. B. Dunlop at Donnybrook Belfast page, some new photos added Ulster Junior Hockey Team Postcards addressed to Patterson with photos 8/4/2010 Altnaveigh Memorial Pipe Band 1951 8/4/2010 G. R. R. Savage moved to new page and further information added  8/4/2010 County Fermanagh Company of R.U.C.  Newtownards 7.4.1923  14/4/2010 RUC or RIC photos, on back, Mr. Barr, Ballymoney Street   14/4/2010 Wm. J. Purdy's Public House in Church Street Belfast   24/7/2010
World War 1 & 2 and pre and post great photo of Queen's T.A. sub-unit 1952 with names Irvine Brothers 8th Belfast HAA Matchett Brothers 8th Belfast HAA Thomas Herbert Coulter 8th Belfast HAA new photos added to these pages of the 8th Belfast HAA section:- Sgt. Mat. McCartney - http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/8th_belfast_haa_regt3.htm original photo of soccer team - http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/8th_belfast_haa_regt1.htm NEW PAGE - Old Comrades Section http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/8th_belfast_haa_regt_Old_Comrades_Section.htm more poems added http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/8th_belfast_haa_regt_Poems.htm 102 (Ulster) Air Defence Regt, R.A. (V) newspaper clipping and Fighting in Arakan Area http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/8th_belfast_haa_regt_newspaperPt2.htm Brann - obituaries added http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/8th_belfast_haa_regt_obituary_Brann.htm new page of photos http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/8th_belfast_haa_regt5.htm UPDATED 28.4.2010  Sergeants' Mess Book, loads of photographs new photos added  8th Belfast Albert Wooden new photos added Sgt. William (Billy) Wilson 23rd Bty 8th Belfast HAA new photos added   Gnr. James E. Mearns   WW1 and WW2 Fitzroy Church Servicemen newly updated with lots more information on the men October 2010	Robert Thompson Section Excerpts from his Heroes Series of Books and Gladys Cranes WW1 Autograph Booklet Robert Thompson's books on WW1 soldiers       Bushmills Heroes    -  (4/4/2010)    Portstewart Heroes  - (21/4/10)    Portrush Heroes      - (3/5/10)    Ballymoney Heroes - (30/5/10)    Coleraine Heroes  - (26/7/10)    Garvagh & Aghadowey Heroes - (15/8/10)    Inishowen Heroes - (17/9/10)    Ballycastle Heroes - (30/12/11)    Gladys Crane's Autograph Book WW1 - 2nd January 2012
MISC. Scrapbook full of newspaper clippings relating mostly to Aiken, Coolavin, Bangor Scrapbook full of poems, songs and newspaper clippings List of Names Petition Harland & Wolffs 1912 1915 Mrs. Rene Andrews Scrapbook belonging to Arthur McIlveen, lots of stories and some newspaper clippings Photo Album names mentioned Parker & Maginness Photo Album belonging to John Vinycomb Masonic Lodge, Mount, Golden Jubilee Celebration No. 394 Dates from Herron Family Bible  3/2010 2 new photos from Pickie added to Bangor page  8/4/2010 Campbell College Register 1894 to 1954   18/7/2010 Help me page - looking for a poem  24/10/10 Donated Information One & Two  12/2010	NEWSPAPERS Tinker Bell Club 1943 Belfast Telegraph assorted clippings inc. deaths, marriages etc. Groomsport Lifeboat The Florence Belfast Telegraph 17th September 1927 Belfast Telegraph 21st August 1936
2009  - most recent at bottom of each list
DIRECTORIES 1908  started 16th June 09 - streets finished 23/11/09 Village Directory finished 23.11.09 1901  28/5/09 complete 1910  complete 31.8.09 1877  complete April 3rd 09 1898 list of residents for Newry from a small book, there is no cover so I don't know what it is, but the residents are listed by the street 1894 Waterford Directory & County Directory 7/8th December 09	PHOTOS W. Sidney Wanstall St. Johns Brigade Medals Trenier WW2 First Orange Lodge Formed Donaghadee - Hugh Nelson Cox D'Dee Lifeboat Cars Racing 1932/33/34 Adelphi Club Rosemary Radio Electrical Co. Ltd. Armagh people Bangor Glenlola 6/1927 & Mayor 3/5/1957 Co. Antrim - Ballymena Newtownards Market Bangor/Newtownards Cottown School 1911 Katie Smyth, 204 Leeson Street, Belfast Leary/Hastings more Bangor photos added 16th Sept 09 Cars and a Shell Pump somewhere in Ireland Connswater Street 1953 scrapbook Taylor Whisky Coleraine Inter Pro Cricket Team Dublin 1937 Bangor Central School 1936 with names
MORE PHOTOS Glass negatives of Lurgan Factories and Police Belfast School Group a batch of photos - Wylie Hunniford - McCambley lot of photos - McWilliams Singapore etc. Royal Irish Horse W. J. Brown & Hugh John T. A. Kean,  M.D. and Mary Kean Comeau Menzies McDonald unknown buildings Allen, Brown, Hassock, etc. photo and genealogy info. for Savage
NEWSPAPERS Belfast Telegraph 6th June 1944 Invasion Northern Whig (1 page- photos) June 1927 Sinner 1927 Samuel Irvine, Argyle Street ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MISC. J. H. Kielty, 15 Breda Gardens, Belfast, his football passes from 1937 to 1962 and ASW Permits Autograph book of Margaret Elizabeth MacIvor (3) hats and helmets Lennon Brothers Fruit Morrow Drumreagh J. Blok 1941 Rev. Henry Montgomery Theatre Royal Belfast Programme 1894 The Belfast Boy Scout Gang Show Programme 1958 Norah Haughton page updated with new photos etc. Aide Memoire - McDonough Wexford Gourley of Derryboy Beare and Brownlie etc. Another Autograph Album (4) map Antrim McAleenan Family Bible inc list of Belfast Doctors BOOKS with Inscriptions Derry and Antrim Yearbook for 1943 see also 1941	WW1 & WW2 WW1 and WW2 Fitzroy Church Servicemen ARMY SERVICE RECORDS - see what they are like before you order yours or your relatives WW2 Diary - Cpl. W. F. Davison 8th Belfast HAA History by Murray Barnes 8th Belfast HAA History by Col. Harry Porter 8th Belfast HAA Diary - Gunner J. D. Bailie Obituary - Col. Wm. Norman Brann Faugh-a-Ballagh Regimental Gazette RIF 1943 Northern Whig Souvenir Page - 8th Belfast HAA Peter McCourt WW1 pre ww1 inc. Royal Innis. Fus.  John Marriot Death Pennys - Robert Beech and William Boyle swagger stick? W. L. Irwin WW1 8th Belfast HAA 30 minute film on youtube 8th Belfast HAA some new docs Burma Star Luncheon Sept. 2009 Great ARP Holywood photo with all the names A.T.S. Jean Knox Westbourne Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour William (Buttons) Hunter 8th Belfast HAA updated more photos added 12.11.09 Ulstermen who won the V.C.