Friday, 17 July 2009
The William Thompson Poems story so far...
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Thanks for looking us up. It's been quite an adventure! The once-famous poems of a county Down farmer (our grandfather) all compiled and...
Monday, 1 December 2008
No Christmas Tree!
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Here's a poem which was published in the Chronicle in the early 1950s. It seem that the Ards Borough Council of that time had taken a de...
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
The Donaghadee Lifeboat at the 12th
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I took this photo on the 12th July at Portavogie, of LOL 836 Bro Henry Ferguson Memorial Orange Lodge from Donaghadee. As you can see their ...
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
New Poem Discovered!
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My uncle John called round tonight with a photocopy of another one of Granda's poems, about the Princess Victoria disaster again, which...
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Private James Thompson, R.I.R of Kirkistown, killed at the Somme, aged 20
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With the Battle of the Somme commemorations next week, I thought this would be a relevant poem to post here. As far as I know he was my gran...
Thursday, 17 April 2008
Some of David Martin's Photographs
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With thanks to the Newtownards Chronicle and the Newtownards Spectator for the publicity this week . ............. Press Release: Cloughey L...
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Monday, 17 March 2008
Three of the original booklets
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Here are the scanned covers of three of William's poetry booklets, which he sold door-to-door around the Ards Peninsula to raise money f...
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