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
25. In what may have been the first recorded business arts sponsorship, Mr Henry Joy, proprietor of the Belfast News Letter, then 55 years old and thriving, subscribed to the common purse of the Belfast Harper’s Convention in 1792. And that legacy carried on down through the centuries to the year 1992 went another convention was to be held in May of that year. Festival director Jane Harbinson, right, introduces Inok Paek from Korea, with her Kayagum ‘harp’, to fellow harpists Suzanne McAlinden, left and Merine Gilmore and Mairead Hogg, in March 1992. Picture: News Letter archives
In what may have been the first recorded business arts sponsorship, Mr Henry Joy, proprietor of the Belfast News Letter, then 55 years old and thriving, subscribed to the common purse of the Belfast Harper’s Convention in 1792. And that legacy carried on down through the centuries to the year 1992 went another convention was to be held in May of that year. Festival director Jane Harbinson, right, introduces Inok Paek from Korea, with her Kayagum ‘harp’, to fellow harpists Suzanne McAlinden, left and Merine Gilmore and Mairead Hogg, in March 1992. Picture: News Letter archives Photo: News Letter archives/Darryl Armitage
26. News Letter publicity executive Vivien Marshall enjoys a joke with Bass Ireland PR manager Brian Houston, during the semi final draw of the Bass Irish Cup, which was made in the News Letter offices in March 1992. Also, in the picture are, left to right, News Letter sports editor Brian Millar, Geoff Martin, News Letter editor, and Ken Hood, chairman of the IFA Senior Club Committee. Picture: News Letter archives
News Letter publicity executive Vivien Marshall enjoys a joke with Bass Ireland PR manager Brian Houston, during the semi final draw of the Bass Irish Cup, which was made in the News Letter offices in March 1992. Also, in the picture are, left to right, News Letter sports editor Brian Millar, Geoff Martin, News Letter editor, and Ken Hood, chairman of the IFA Senior Club Committee. Picture: News Letter archives Photo: News Letter archives/Darryl Armitage
27. Pictured in February 1992 at the Greenmount Association annual meeting are Sir Henry Plumb, centre, Jack Hutchinson, accountant, the speakers, with Matt Boyd, principal of Greenmount College. Picture: Farming Life/News Letter archives
Pictured in February 1992 at the Greenmount Association annual meeting are Sir Henry Plumb, centre, Jack Hutchinson, accountant, the speakers, with Matt Boyd, principal of Greenmount College. Picture: Farming Life/News Letter archives Photo: Farming Life/News Letter archives/Darryl Armitage