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This weekend 40 years ago - the entertainment section of the @newryreporter I'll get the DeLorean warmed up...

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Newry Reporter February 1912 - Rostrevor names and townlands.

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In February 1929, a council meeting in the boardroom Warrenpoint took on a lease of life that lasted almost 48 hours. The newspaper cutting attached here will shed some light on the proceedings and allow the reader now (as then) to draw their own conclusions as to what happened.

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William John Thornton and Tom Burnett at the wheel on a day trip outside the Victoria hotel in Dock Street (circa 1912) and another photo of the rest of the visitors at the same spot. (Photos Billy Thornton, Portadown as printed in the Portadown times April 4th 1997)

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Newry Reporter March 1965 @frank_broadcast

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The "Invasion" of Warrenpoint June 1944
Last June was the 80th anniversary of the "invasion of Warrenpoint" - something my grandfather spoke of in passing from his days of being in the home guard. The "invasion" was of course an exercise as part of "Salute the Soldier Week"

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Left to Right George Connolly from Newry Street, Arthur McLoughlin from Charlotte Street and Floyd Patterson in the Liverpool hotel Warrenpoint 1978 #boxing #FloydPatterson #Warrenpoint

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@johnmccabe1948 Replied on Facebook - I rarely use this now its just here as a reference point and I'll probably delete it (I've already deleted my personal profile)

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@kalinkovichi1 Between 2 and 4 degrees out but its unseasonably warm. no snow this year

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The company that wasn't - Thanks to Pat McGivern who pointed out the first article in this post about a new shipbuilding and dry dock company that was to setup in Warrenpoint. It was not one I had heard of before so I did a bit of research and discovered all was not as it seemed.

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A few ships including the Manxman Isle of Man Ferry at Warrenpoint taken by my late grandfather Joe McCabe in 1981.

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The Square Warrenpoint, September 1960
(Image Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID JV-R-5949)

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That's Christmas sorted (or it would be in 1971)

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2 pictures from the Hugh Irvine collection showing the beetling mill wheel at the Valley Dyeworks Rostrevor.
(Photos used with the kind permission of NMD Museums: Newry & Mourne Museum Collection)
https://t.co/iXsbTUBwQJ

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Church Street Rostrevor 1960's from the Newman Collection
Useless info, the car in the photograph outside Smyth's looks like a 1960's Auto Union 1000
(Photo used with the kind permission of NMD Museums: Newry & Mourne Museum Collection)
https://t.co/iXsbTUBwQJ

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Kilkeel in the 1960's
Photos from the Newman Collection used with the kind permission of NMD Museums: Newry & Mourne Museum Collection
https://t.co/iXsbTUBwQJ