Shedding new light on the News Letter’s historic photo archive
By Darryl Armitage
Published 8th Feb 2023, 12:31 BST
Updated 8th Feb 2023, 12:42 BST
The News Letter has a wealth of old photographs dating back to the early 1980s.
I have been working my way steadily through these old negatives to shed a new light on the archive.
Today we have a selection of photographs which date from November and December 1982.
One old photograph shows a smiling Reverend Ian Paisley leading elected members into the Assembly at Stormont.
Another photograph is Alan Robinson of Silverstream from Bangor, pictured in November 1982, standing beside his Renault car which was completely wrecked when a wall collapsed in King Street, Bangor, during high winds. Mr Robinson had just parked the car a couple of minutes earlier.
Have a look through our old photographs and see who you can spot.
One old photograph shows a smiling Reverend Ian Paisley leading elected members into the Assembly at Stormont.
5. Two thousand families faced a tough Christmas in December 1982 reported the News Letter after what it called “one of the worst blows for Ulster industry”. The closure of the Michelin tyre plant at Mallusk, Co Antrim, followed the shutdowns of Courtaulds, Enkalon, ICI and the De Lorean car company that year. The Reverend Cowan Thompson, the Reverend Noel Jackson and the Reverend Winston Graham, who appealed on behalf of the workers. Picture: News Letter archives
Two thousand families faced a tough Christmas in December 1982 reported the News Letter after what it called “one of the worst blows for Ulster industry”. The closure of the Michelin tyre plant at Mallusk, Co Antrim, followed the shutdowns of Courtaulds, Enkalon, ICI and the De Lorean car company that year. The Reverend Cowan Thompson, the Reverend Noel Jackson and the Reverend Winston Graham, who appealed on behalf of the workers. Picture: News Letter archives Photo: News Letter archives/Darryl Armitage
6. Two thousand families faced a tough Christmas in December 1982 reported the News Letter after what it called “one of the worst blows for Ulster industry”. The closure of the Michelin tyre plant at Mallusk, Co Antrim, followed the shutdowns of Courtaulds, Enkalon, ICI and the De Lorean car company that year. Pictured outside the Mallusk plant are Gilbert Beattie and Norman Annesley. Picture: News Letter archives
Two thousand families faced a tough Christmas in December 1982 reported the News Letter after what it called “one of the worst blows for Ulster industry”. The closure of the Michelin tyre plant at Mallusk, Co Antrim, followed the shutdowns of Courtaulds, Enkalon, ICI and the De Lorean car company that year. Pictured outside the Mallusk plant are Gilbert Beattie and Norman Annesley. Picture: News Letter archives Photo: News Letter archives/Darryl Armitage
7. Pictured in November 1982 are Gina Giles, Darren Billings and Kenneth Adams from Rostulla Special School with Scottish comedian Billy Connolly after he presented them with their prizes in the Belfast Festival Design A Record Sleeve competition. Picture: News Letter archives
Pictured in November 1982 are Gina Giles, Darren Billings and Kenneth Adams from Rostulla Special School with Scottish comedian Billy Connolly after he presented them with their prizes in the Belfast Festival Design A Record Sleeve competition. Picture: News Letter archives Photo: News Letter archives/Darryl Armitage
8. Gloria Dring from Belfast at the launch of facsimile edition of the illustrations of the Irish linen industry in 1783 by William Hincks, by the Linen Hall Library, and the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in November 1982. Picture: News Letter archives
Gloria Dring from Belfast at the launch of facsimile edition of the illustrations of the Irish linen industry in 1783 by William Hincks, by the Linen Hall Library, and the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in November 1982. Picture: News Letter archives Photo: News Letter archives/Darryl Armitage