IN PICTURES: Through The Archives – looking back at the 1980s
Over lockdown we have been busy looking through the News Letter’s photographic archive and have picked out the best photographs from bygone days.
By Darryl Armitage
Published 17th Dec 2020, 12:00 GMT
Here is another selection of old News Letter photographs from the 1980s.
There is fascinating photo from 1987 of Molly Wallace with her husband’s treasure trove of knick-knacks.
We also have an old photo from April 1986 of CND protestors outside the American Consulate when it was located in Queen Street.
And there is also a collection of old photos from December 1988 of workers at Shorts working on the 360 aircraft.
See who you might see from days gone by.
Do you have an old photograph that you would like to share? Email: [email protected].
We also have an old photo from April 1986 of CND protestors outside the American Consulate when it was located in Queen Street.
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To mark six months protesting against the Anglo-Irish Agreement DUP assemblymen in May 1986 by seized control of the switchboard room at Stormont. “Is Tom King [the current Secretary of State for Northern Ireland] aware of our coup d’etat?” asked Fermanagh and South Tyrone assemblyman the Reverend Ian Foster. The protestors held the room for two-and-a-half hours before police arrived with a sledgehammer to smash the door down and evict them. A spokesman for the Northern Ireland office branded the protest a “publicity stunt” and said that it had caused inconvenience to the public. Picture: News Letter archives
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Ian Paisley at an Apprentice Boys march at the Diamond, Londonderry on August 12, 1980.