Diesel train passing Narrow Water keep early 60's (in the final years of the railway) (Photo used with the kind permission of NMD Museums: Newry & Mourne Museum Collection) facebook.com/NMDMuseums

Inside Narrow Water keep dated 1960's (could be slightly earlier) from the Newman Collection. (Photo used with the kind permission of NMD Museums: Newry & Mourne Museum Collection) facebook.com/NMDMuseums

Kilkeel in the 1960's Photos from the Newman Collection used with the kind permission of NMD Museums: Newry & Mourne Museum Collection facebook.com/NMDMuseums

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) facebook.com/NMDMuseums

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) facebook.com/NMDMuseums

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

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

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

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.

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

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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Newry Reporter March 1965 Frank Mitchell

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)

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.

Newry Reporter February 1912 - Rostrevor names and townlands.

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

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