60-year-old photograph brings back memories for Jim Thompson

A black and white photograph taken outside the Apprentice Boys of Derry Memorial Hall 60 years ago has brought memories flooding back for one Mitchelburne man.
By The Newsroom
Published 18th Jul 2013, 07:00 BST

Prompted by the regular nostalgia pages now being featured in the Londonderry Sentinel, Jim Thompson, a resident from Jack Allen Court in The Fountain Estate, brought the photograph in to the Sentinel office last week.

The back row shows, from left, Jim Jefferson, a cousin of Jim’s. Next is Dan Thompson, Jim’s great-grandfather, and far right is Cecil, Jim’s brother. Pictured on the front row is, from left, Bertie Jefferson, also a cousin of Jim’s, and brother of Jim Jefferson, behind him. A youthful looking Jim Thompson is seated beside him, and next to Jim is Roy Thompson, also a cousin of Jim’s. Right on the end to the right-hand-side is William Thompson or WS Thompson as he was better known.

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“That was of an installation meeting at the ABOD and my grandfather was a President of the Club at one time. He is standing holding a chair because he lost his right leg. He was 84-years-old in the at photograph. Generations of the family had been Mitchelburne men. The Club was a family affair,” said Jim.