Today we have a selection of photographs which date from 1992.
One shows tiny tots from Doagh Mothers and Toddlers Group plant cherry tree saplings in the grounds of Doagh Methodist Church with help of leader Jane McKendry and founder member Maureen Duddy in March 1992. The trees marked the group’s tenth anniversary.
Meanwhile, in March 1992 Belfast’s wildlife got a new campaigner when television personality Jimmy Ellis launched a conservation initiative, Nature in the City, which was the first strategy of its kind in Ireland and was the result of extensive co-operation and consultation between government departments, district councils and conservation groups. Mr Ellis is pictured with Carrs Glen Primary School pupils Lindsay Thompson and Natalie Pritchard launching the new conservation strategy.
Also featured in this selection of old 1992 photographs of the granting of the Freedom of the Borough of Larne in March 1992. The occasion came less than 24 hours after the House of Commons rubber-stamped the disbandment of the UDR in its present form.
Have a look through our old photographs and see who you can spot.
Pictures: News Letter archives/Darryl Armitage
17. Pictured in March 1992 is Korean kayagum player Inok Paek who had brought her own instrument to Northern Ireland to take part in the World Harpers Festival in Belfast. Unfortunately her kayagum was damaged “in flight”, but she was able to borrow a string from a fellow musician in Northern Ireland. She is pictured with Merine Gilmore of the Belfast Harpers Group. Picture: News Letter archives
Pictured in March 1992 is Korean kayagum player Inok Paek who had brought her own instrument to Northern Ireland to take part in the World Harpers Festival in Belfast. Unfortunately her kayagum was damaged “in flight”, but she was able to borrow a string from a fellow musician in Northern Ireland. She is pictured with Merine Gilmore of the Belfast Harpers Group. Picture: News Letter archives Photo: News Letter archives/Darryl Armitage
18. Pictured in March 1992 is Erin Bunting of 1st Hillsborough Brownies with a 1920 Cottage Ware biscuit basket at an antiques and collectables fair which had been organised by 1st Hillsborough Scout Troop at the Downshire Hall. Picture: News Letter archives
Pictured in March 1992 is Erin Bunting of 1st Hillsborough Brownies with a 1920 Cottage Ware biscuit basket at an antiques and collectables fair which had been organised by 1st Hillsborough Scout Troop at the Downshire Hall. Picture: News Letter archives Photo: News Letter archives/Darryl Armitage
19. This picture of The Potter by Belfast artist D G Kennedy, from Kensington Gardens West, caught the eye of Phillipa Arnold from Whitehead in March 1992 at the NI Amateur Art Competition which was organised by the Narrow Water Gallery, Warrenpoint. Picture: News Letter archives
This picture of The Potter by Belfast artist D G Kennedy, from Kensington Gardens West, caught the eye of Phillipa Arnold from Whitehead in March 1992 at the NI Amateur Art Competition which was organised by the Narrow Water Gallery, Warrenpoint. Picture: News Letter archives Photo: News Letter archives/Darryl Armitage
20. Like an aquarium in reverse, men and machines work in a massive ‘tank’ below the water-level of the Lagan in March 1992 pushing across the riverbed the weir which was to harness the tides below the Queen Elizabeth Bridge, Belfast. Well on schedule for completion in 1992, the £14 million weir when finished was to contain the water above at high tide, “ending forever the smelling, unsightly mudflats stretching up-river” and providing a new visitor attraction near the city centre. Picture: News Letter archives
Like an aquarium in reverse, men and machines work in a massive ‘tank’ below the water-level of the Lagan in March 1992 pushing across the riverbed the weir which was to harness the tides below the Queen Elizabeth Bridge, Belfast. Well on schedule for completion in 1992, the £14 million weir when finished was to contain the water above at high tide, “ending forever the smelling, unsightly mudflats stretching up-river” and providing a new visitor attraction near the city centre. Picture: News Letter archives Photo: News Letter archives/Darryl Armitage