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More than 50 teachers had launched the campaign to save the schools threatened with the axe. Teachers from Dunlamber Boys' and Somerdale Boys' Secondary Schools protesting outside the Belfast Education and Library Board office in February 1982. In a statement issued to the News Letter the teachers stated: “There is not a single educational reason to justify the decision to close either of these schools. It will effectively destroy an exercise of parental choice of schools in north Belfast. It will handicap an progress towards a properly planned rationalisation of resources in north Belfast for the next twenty years.” The staff at Somerdale school had blocked the Crumlin Road for 30 minutes during their lunchtime before joining their Dunlambert colleagues in a delegation to the board headquarters in Academy Street. Picture: News Letter archives

IN PICTURES: More old photographs from the News Letter photograph archives (1982...
Today we have another selection of photographs from the News Letter archives dating from 1982.
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Mr John Kinahan, left, marketing manager, Arthur Guinness (Belfast) handing over trophies to the Holywood Yacht Club team which won the Guiness Inter-Pub/Club Charity Quiz, run in association with the Holywood Round Table. The team beat the Holywood Social Club in the district final. In the picture are Norman Bennett, captain, Austin Treacy, Tom Smeltzer and John Bingham. Also included are John Galbraith, scorer, Roy Williams, questionmaster, and Geoff Hunt, timekeeper. Picture: News Letter archives

IN PICTURES: More old photographs from the News Letter photograph archives (1982...

An Ulster hero's wartime medals which had been stolen 18 years previously were recovered by Scotland Yard in London reported the News in Letter February 1982. They were handed over to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers' Museum by the widow of the hero, Major George Shields. His prized Military Medal and the MBE were among his decorations stolen from a shop in 1964 when they were being remounted. He did not realise they had been replaced by copies when he collected them with new ribbons. Six months later, when his daughter noticed his name was not engraved on the medals, that the alarm was raised and the story emerged. Then in 1980, before George died, the Fusiliers' museum at Enniskillen Castle received an inquiry from a man claiming to be a grandson of the hero, who wanted to know who the Military Medal was won. This alerted the regiment, which already knew about the switch, and soon afterwards Scotland Yard detectives called at an East End house in London and saw George's medal, which had been innocently bou

IN PICTURES: Looking back through the News Letter photograph archives (1982)

IN PICTURES: More photographs from the News Letter archives (1982)

Billy Bingham presenting a cheque for £100,000 to Lady Dunleath, president of the Northern Ireland Council for Orthopaedic Development in February 1982. Included are Mr Jimmy James, chairman of NICOD, Mrs Thelma Greeves, organising secretary of NICOD, and Mr George Abbott from Bristol. Picture: News Letter archives

IN PICTURES: Looking back through the News Letter photograph archives (1982)

WATCH: Look back through the News Letter photo archive - January 1981

Pictured at the end of January 1982 is Glentoran goalkeeper Ken Barclay, who was emigrating to Australia, receiving a presentation from David McCullough, representing the Amalgamation of Glentoran Supporters' Clubs. Picture: News Letter archives

IN PICTURES: Through The Archives – looking back at 1982

Belfast Lord Mayor Eric Smyth join shoppers at St George’s Market in Belfast after the news of a £3 million lottery cash grant in February 1996. Picture: News Letter archives

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IN PICTURES: Through The Archives – looking back at the 1980s

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Not even a red light could stop Trevor Whitten's Earl of Alexander as he led the Apprentice Boys' parade through Comber in December 1988. The News Letter noted that members of the Apprentice Boys of Derry had been urged to show the same resolve as the original apprentices who had closed the city gates. The plea came on the day that the organisation began it's celebrations marking the 300th anniversary of the Siege of Derry. Co Down members converged in Comber for an historic re-enactment. A letter – a replica of one sent on the same day in 1688 – had left the town in the safekeeping of two marathon runners for Londonderry. The letter warned of a plot by the nationalist Redshanks to rise up on December 9, 1688, and murder Protestants. Picture: Eddie Harvey/News Letter archives

IN PICTURES: Through The Archives – looking back at the 1980s

If you might be able to identify anyone in the photos or tell the story please get in touch with me. Email: darryl.armitage@jpimedia.co.uk. Picture: News Letter archives

IN PICTURES: Through The Archives – more old photos from November 1980

Linfield’s Johnny Jameson getting in a shot at the Glentoran goal despite the close attention of Glens’ defender Rab McCreery during the Big Two clash at Windsor Park, Belfast, in January 1980. Picture: Eddie Hanvey/News Letter archives

IN PICTURES: Through The Archives – sporting photos

Roadferry sales manager Nicola Walker holding the Roadferry League Cup when the company announced its continued sponsorship at a press conference at the Park Avenue Hotel in Belfast in October 1989. Also in the photograph are Alan Miles, Roadferry managing director, and Irish League secretary Mervyn Brown. Mr Miles, who revealed the “biggest-ever purse” offered in the Irish League soccer told the News Letter: “It's our fourth year sponsoring the competition and I feel we are getting value for money. This competition gives the B Division clubs a chance to meet the big boys and that's what cup football is all about.” He added: “I just hope a B Division side is good enough to take the cash. Looking at the draw, Ballyclare must be in with a good chance.” Picture: News Letter archives

IN PICTURES: Through The Archives – looking back at the 1980s and early 2000s

Only a hard-pressed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland would start his day without having a shave but Tracy Wilson was on hand to soft soap his bristles when he visited the beauty-without-cruelty form Nectar Cosmetics in Carrickfergus in October 1989. Picture: Trevor Dickson/News Letter archives

IN PICTURES: Through The Archives – looking back at October 1989

If you might be able to identify anyone in the photos or tell the story please get in touch with me. Email: darryl.armitage@jpimedia.co.uk. Picture: News Letter archives

IN PICTURES: Through The Archives – more old photos from November 1980

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Kasis, the Standard Poodle, got the brush-off in a nice way from owners Paul Bradley of Sheffield and Eric Harrington of Rotherham at the Belfast dog championships at Balmoral in October 1989. Picture: News Letter archives

IN PICTURES: Through The Archives – looking back at October 1989

If you might be able to identify anyone in the photos or tell the story please get in touch with me. Email: darryl.armitage@jpimedia.co.uk. Picture: News Letter archives

IN PICTURES: Through The Archives – looking back at November 1980

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Victoria College head girls Karen Irwin, left, and Fiona Parkes accompanied the board of governors chairwoman Joan Russell, deputy headmistress Dr C J Higginson, and headmistress Brenda Berner at a thanksgiving service which was held by the college in October 1987. Picture: News Letter archives

IN PICTURES: Through The Archives – looking back at October 1987

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Doria Hill, manager of the Northern Bank in Larne, hands over a sponsorship cheque to the treasurer of the Cairncastle Sheepdog Society, Robert Stewart. Also pictured are Susan Kelly, the assistant Secretary of the Northern Ireland Sheepdog Society and Campbell Tweed and Willie McWhirter from the Cairncastle Sheepdog Society. Picture: Larne Times archives

IN PICTURES: Bygone Days – Faces from Cairncastle Sheepdog Trials in September 2...

The Federation of Retail Licensed Trade in October 1987 announced its plans to implement the Sunday opening laws, included in the picture are, from left, Pat Connolly, vice chairman, Gordon Harvey, chairman, and Brian Gray, secretary. But anti-Sunday opening 'militants' threatened to do battle with those who choose to open on a Sunday. The Reverend David McIlveen, minister of Sandown Road Free Presbyterian Church in Belfast said: "We are keeping our plans very much to ourselves for obvious reasons but protests have been organised at local level by individual congregations throughout Ulster. Our actions, however, will be peaceful and dignified at all times." Picture: News Letter archives

IN PICTURES: Through The Archives – looking back at the implementing of the Sund...

South Down MP Enoch Powell who attended the opening night of the Grand Opera House in September described the night as “a great occasion – an act of defiance or perhaps I would rather say an act of triumph”. Picture: News Letter archives

IN PICTURES: Through The Archives – looking back at the re-opening of the Grand ...

Amy Hanna, Donaghadee YFC, and Andrew Patton, Newtownards YFC, at the Co Down YFC quiz

IN PICTURES: Bygone Days – Faces from the Co Down YFC quiz night in January 2012

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