There are several interesting photographs including a selection of photographs related to a protest campaign which had been launched to save the schools threatened with the axe. Teachers, parents and taxi drivers all joined the campaign to save from Dunlamber Boys’ and Somerdale Boys’ Secondary Schools.
Meanwhile there are also photographs of industry minister Adam Butler when he had travelled to Carrickfergus in Co Antrim in February 1982 to launch a job creation scheme. Mr Butler was told by the mayor of the town, Mayor Alderman Ken McFaul, that he was “unwelcome”. Mr McFaul was joined by six other loyalist councillors who accused Mr Butler of “selling out to the enemies of Ulster”.
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Sir Thomas Brown, chairman of the Eastern Health and Social Services Board, speaking at the launch of the Cancer Scanner ‘Bricks’ Appeal which was launched in February 1982. The people of Northern Ireland were being urged to help build a £200,000 home for an advanced cancer scanner. They had already managed to gather £600,000 to buy the scanner - “one of the most advanced in Europe” - and to run it for three years. But they needed a purpose built unit to house the machine and its “technical” equipment. Mr Scott McAlpine, the Cancer Scanner Appeal committee chairman, said that an order had been placed for the machine but that it would not be delivered until the unit had been built. He said he hoped the building would be ready to use “this time next year”. Picture: News Letter archives
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Actress Liza Goddard with her pop star singer husband Alvin Stardust in a Mazda RX7 at the Ulster Motor Show at the King's Hall in February 1982. Picture: News Letter archives
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Housing Executive tenants, angry at the proposed 22 per cent increase in rent, gathered outside Belfast City Hall in February 1982 to protest at the increase. It had been hoped to hold a “Big Sleep” protect at Belfast City Hall but bad weather put the plans on hold. Picture: News Letter archives
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Orignal cap - It may still be only snowdrop time in the country but there is a real breath of spring diown at City Hall where flower sellers' lavish display of daffodils, narcissus, anemones and tulips attracts the attention of passers-by and the custom of many. PHOTO BY - D LAMOND MACNIE, BRUSLEE, BALLYCLARE