From two boys fishing at a picturesque harbour to a huge victory parade, they capture all manner of life.
Spectacular aerial shots reveal how different towns around Northern Ireland looked more than half a century ago.
This retro photo gallery takes you from the docks to the factory floor.
Major construction projects, a lost railway station, and a popular show feature in these nostalgic black-and-white images.
Characters from the decade are pictured too, from all-conquering schoolchildren to the ‘Twinniest Twins’, and Roger Moore makes an appearance in his pre-007 days.
Do these photos bring back any happy memories for you of the 60s?
5. Setting sail
The new P&O liner 'Canberra', built in the Harland and Wolff shipyard, sets off to sail the London-Sydney route in March 1960 | Getty Images Photo: Ron Case/Keystone
6. Victory parade
The victorious Derry City FC team make their triumphant return to the city on the 1960s equivalent of an open-top bus. The houses on the left of the street - opposite the current site of Lumen Christi College at Bishop Street - were later to make way for an extension to the former Nazareth House residential home. | Iconic Media Group
7. Docklands
A cart-horse wearing a harness by the side of a road in the docklands district of Belfast in April 1962 | Getty Images Photo: George Freston/Fox Photos
8. Golf factory
Craftsmen making golf clubs at the Spalding factory in January 1963 | Getty Images Photo: Central Press