THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: From the News Letter of October 1950

‘Socialist lie that must be killed’
By The Newsroom
Published 9th Oct 2020, 06:00 BST
Jim Canning (left) and Gerald McCurdy inspect the huge light in one of Rathlin Island's three lighthouses. The East Light, built in 1856, is the oldest. It became automated in 1995. The Rue Light, at the southern tip opposite fair head, is only 35 feet above sea level. At the western tip of the island is the West Light, built between 1912 and 1916 at the enormous cost in those days of £400,000. All three of the lighthouses stand as monument to its wild coast while over 40 recorded shipwrecks lie in the depths of underwater cliffs and caves. This photograph dates from 1994. (NEWS LETTER ARCHIVES)Jim Canning (left) and Gerald McCurdy inspect the huge light in one of Rathlin Island's three lighthouses. The East Light, built in 1856, is the oldest. It became automated in 1995. The Rue Light, at the southern tip opposite fair head, is only 35 feet above sea level. At the western tip of the island is the West Light, built between 1912 and 1916 at the enormous cost in those days of £400,000. All three of the lighthouses stand as monument to its wild coast while over 40 recorded shipwrecks lie in the depths of underwater cliffs and caves. This photograph dates from 1994. (NEWS LETTER ARCHIVES)
Jim Canning (left) and Gerald McCurdy inspect the huge light in one of Rathlin Island's three lighthouses. The East Light, built in 1856, is the oldest. It became automated in 1995. The Rue Light, at the southern tip opposite fair head, is only 35 feet above sea level. At the western tip of the island is the West Light, built between 1912 and 1916 at the enormous cost in those days of £400,000. All three of the lighthouses stand as monument to its wild coast while over 40 recorded shipwrecks lie in the depths of underwater cliffs and caves. This photograph dates from 1994. (NEWS LETTER ARCHIVES)

Mr Conolly Gage, MP for South Belfast, commented at Wroughton, Wiltshire, this week in 1950, that the Labour Party drew its greatest support from industrial areas, while the Conserative voters were concentrated in the surburban and rural areas.

He said: “This is obviously unfortunate, and even evil, largely caused by socialist policy of preaching class hatred.

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“Throughout the last five years we have become accustomed to government speakers speaking of manual workers as if they were the only people who worked at all, and of all the rest of the country as drones living on their efforts.

Many thanks for John Campbell of Dundonald Historical Society Facebook page who has let me use the following photograph taken in Dundonald of the Ards TT which ran between 1928 and 1936Many thanks for John Campbell of Dundonald Historical Society Facebook page who has let me use the following photograph taken in Dundonald of the Ards TT which ran between 1928 and 1936
Many thanks for John Campbell of Dundonald Historical Society Facebook page who has let me use the following photograph taken in Dundonald of the Ards TT which ran between 1928 and 1936

“It would be a tragedy for the Conserative Party if it ever came to be regarded as the party that represented only the interests of farmers and the big business man.

“I do not believe that this has ever been the case in the history of our party, but it is essential if we are to win the next election, and draw support from all classes, that we should finally kill this very successful piece of propaganda by the socialists.”

Streets in Newcastle, Co Down, to be renamed

Representatives of Newcastle (Co Down) Urban Council, the valuation office and postal authorities had decided to rename sections of Newcastle streets.

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The original Main Street, which extended for almost a mile and a half along the seafront, was to be renamed in sections - Main Street, Central Promenade, South Promenade and Kilkeel Road. Other highways had been named or renamed to cause less confusion to visitors.

It was hoped, when development plans reached maturity, to name a street in memory of Percy French, who “by word and verse publicised the town in many countries”.

Lord Ismay to visit province

Lord Ismay, chairman of the Council of the Festival of Britain, 1951, was to travel to Northern Ireland.

He was to visit a factory site in Castlereagh, Belfast, where an ‘Ulster Farm and Factory’ exhibition, depicting the development of agriculture and industry, was to be held in June, July and August of 1951 as one of the chief festival events in Northern Ireland.

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