@DerryPast

Derry is full of history, much more than most and I want to share it with you. Join me in a photographic journey through the history of our city.

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1/2 1962 - Rev Anthony Mulvey, St Eugenes Boys Club spiritual Director and former spiritual director of the club pictured with some of the members of the successful teams
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2/2 Thanks to the Derry Journal for sharing this image. See more great images from the people of our cities past in the Derry Journal: The Lost Archives Book, available from the Guildhall Press
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A colourised image of the Hawkin Street in the 1920s. Thanks to Lee McDaid for sharing this image. #derryofthepast #peopleofderry #derry #londonderry #maidencity #northernireland #Irishhistory
A colourised image of the Hawkin Street in the 1920s. Thanks to Lee McDaid for sharing this image.

ALT A colourised image of the Hawkin Street in the 1920s. Thanks to Lee McDaid for sharing this image.

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1877, Butcher Gate looking into the walls. You can see the original Town Hall in the centre of the Diamond which burned down in 1905. Twisted Limbs & Crooked Branches for sharing this image. #derryofthepast #derry #londonderry #maidencity #northernireland #Irishhistory
1877, Butcher Gate looking into the walls. You can see the original Town Hall in the centre of the Diamond which burned down in 1905. Twisted Limbs & Crooked Branches for sharing this image.

ALT 1877, Butcher Gate looking into the walls. You can see the original Town Hall in the centre of the Diamond which burned down in 1905. Twisted Limbs & Crooked Branches for sharing this image.

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1/3 Today we share a Larry Doherty picture, from maybe August 1969, of the visit to the Bogside by Jim Callaghan, then British Home Secretary. The image includes John Hume, Vinny Coyle and Paddy ‘Bogside’.
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2/3 Who recalls the visit by Callaghan and his famous speech from an upstairs window in Lecky Road, because the welcoming Derry crowd was so huge, he could not proceed further?
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3/3 Thanks to Joseph Keys for sharing this image. #derryofthepast #peopleofderry #derry #londonderry #maidencity #northernireland #Irishhistory
Today we share a Larry Doherty picture, from maybe August 1969, of the visit to the Bogside by Jim Callaghan, then British Home Secretary. The image includes John Hume, Vinny Coyle and Paddy ‘Bogside’. Who recalls the visit by Callaghan and his famous speech from an upstairs window in Lecky Road, because the welcoming Derry crowd was so huge, he could not proceed further? Do share in the comments. Thanks to Joseph Keys for sharing this image.

ALT Today we share a Larry Doherty picture, from maybe August 1969, of the visit to the Bogside by Jim Callaghan, then British Home Secretary. The image includes John Hume, Vinny Coyle and Paddy ‘Bogside’. Who recalls the visit by Callaghan and his famous speech from an upstairs window in Lecky Road, because the welcoming Derry crowd was so huge, he could not proceed further? Do share in the comments. Thanks to Joseph Keys for sharing this image.

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