Object: Postcard Featuring The Lake, Wallace Park c1900 With summer right around the corner, it’s time to take advantage of the glorious weather, get outdoors and explore our surroundings! Here’s a look back at one of Lisburn’s more tranquil beauty spots at the beginning of the last century. This section of Wallace Park remains largely […]
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Market Place Renovations, c.2005 Lisburn has changed a lot over the years, here is a snippet from our collections showing renovations to Market Place shops nearly 17 years ago! The photograph was kindly donated to the Museum by George Scott.
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Arch welcoming King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, June 1937 As the people of Lisburn & Castlereagh mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, let’s take a look back at some of the pageantry surrounding the visit of her parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1937. This photograph shows a welcoming arch on the Hillsborough
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Can you guess the year? The Radio Valley float as part of the Lord Mayor’s Parade. Crowds can be seen on Castle Street, Lisburn, enjoying the colourful display. Fredrick Thomas’s shop can be seen in the background. But can you guess the year?
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Video: a Barbour Rolls Royce What a fantastic video! Follow the link to view this ITV video of John D. Barbour discussing the return of the family’s Rolls Royce Phantom. The video is uploaded by Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive. CLICK TO VIEW
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Proof Cloth, Clemow’s Hotel Queenstown, woven at John Shaw Brown’s Donated in 2021 this fantastic proof cloth was woven at John Shaw Brown’s damask factory Edenderry in 1927. The cloth belongs to the Clemow’s Royal Hotel Queenstown, South Africa. Have you been? Did you work at John Shaw Brown’s? If so, get in touch!
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New Acquisition: Medals of Dr J.G. Johnston M.C. (1884-1971), Lisburn Educated at Queen’s University Belfast, Dr Johnston practiced medicine at a surgery on Railway Street (later moving to Castle Street), Lisburn. A member of the South Antrim Volunteers (UVF), he was also a keen rugby player for Lisburn Rugby club. Dr Johnston was awarded the
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Bundles of thread from Wm Barbour & Sons, Lisburn, N. Ireland A kind visitor recently donated this rare bundle of linen thread from the world-famous Barbour Threads, Hilden, Lisburn. The museum holds all sorts of Barbour-related material in his collections, but staff had never seen this bundle before – have you? If so, let us
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Object: a photograph of Bridge Street, 2000 Do you remember the Millennium? What were you doing as we moved from 1999 into the year 2000? Were you worrying about the Millennium bug? Were you at a party, or watching scenes from the Millennium Dome live on TV? Here’s a photograph of the top of Market
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Object: Irene MacWilliam’s amazing Irish Linen Wall Hanging LMILC.1997.103 Irene McWilliam is one of the foremost quilters and embroiders. She was awarded a BEM for services to textile art in 2019, and has won numerous awards for her work. In 2021 she won RSPB NI’s artist of the year! Irene has exhibited her work in
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Photo: Main Street, Hillsborough, 1924 Do you recognise this view? This 1924-postcard from the Alan Coon photography studio. As the Dictionary of Ulster Biography notes: Alan Daniel Coon (1867-1938) was born in Buffalo, New York and was Attorney-at-Law in the United States. In 1902 he came to Ulster and opened a photographic studio in Derry
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In 2021 the museum partnered with NI Science Festival to produce a short video on the history of Hilden Mill. The film is one of three in a series documenting the past, present and future of the linen industry in Northern Ireland. View the full playlist here, with great contributions from Dr Anthony
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Photo: McKeown’s Bread Vans, Lisburn Do you remember the James McKeown & Co. Bakery? The bakery opened in Sloan Street the 1850s, and served the people of Lisburn until its closure in the late 1980s. Read more about the bakery’s history here. The Bakery also had premises in Seymour Street.
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Video: Dr Patricia Marsh – “The doctors are being run off their feet”: Spanish Flu in Lisburn Dr Patricia Marsh is a medical historian and expert on the history of the Spanish Flu in Ireland and Ulster. Dr Marsh has spoken widely on the flu pandemic, including at Áras an Uachtaráin, Dublin, Ireland. In this
Snippet from the Collection: A short snippet from the museum’s collection: a red cross feeding cup c.1914-18 This patient Feeding Cup or Invalid Cup was used to help nurse injured Soldiers and Sailors who were bed-bound and could not sit up to feed. The cup is marked with a red cross, the symbol of the
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Photo: Preparing Rooms at Stewarts’ Mill Photo of the Preparing Room at Robert Stewart & Sons Ltd, Lisburn, Northern Ireland.
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Video: Dr Alan Parkinson – The Northern Troubles 1920-22 In this talk Dr Alan Parkinson, author of Belfast’s Unholy War (2004) will examine the troubles in Ulster in the 1920s, from Belfast, Derry and Lisburn, and the violent context that surrounded the birth of Northern Ireland (1921). Alan Parkinson is a former university history lecturer/teacher-trainer.
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Photo: The machinery falls quiet at Barbour Threads, Lisburn, 2006
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Photo: building the new civic centre, Lisburn
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Video: Cormac Moore- The day-to-day effects of Partition in Ireland Dr Cormac Moore is Historian-in-Residence with Dublin City Council, and author of a number of books including The Irish Soccer Split (2015) and The Birth of the Border (2019). In this talk Cormac will explore the impact of partition, from law to sport, agriculture to
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Photo: Convent, Seymour Street
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Advert: Barbour Threads, c.2000 Did you work there? What are your memories? Did you use their products?
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Photo: Top Hall Ballroom, Lisburn Share your stories of the Top Hat Ballroom with us! Who did you see? Do you have any photos? Share them us!
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum! Credit: James Lyttle, Lisburn
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Photo: Christmas time in Market Square, c. 1960s-70s?
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Photo: Market Square and the Nicholson Statue in the Snow, c.1963 Photo: Market Square in the Snow, 1963
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Photo: A view of the Crimean Cannon in Castle Gardens
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Photo: A view of the corner of Bow Street and Antrim Street in the snow, 1963.
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Video: Christopher Magill – The East Ulster Riots and the Formation of The Special Constabulary 1920 In this talk, Christopher Magill examines Ulster in 1920, from the shipyard expulsions to the wave of summer rioting that swept through Banbridge, Dromore, Belfast and Lisburn, and the emergence of the Ulster Special Constabulary (USC). Dr Christopher Magill
Video: Pearse Lawlor: Lisburn – The Burnings, 1920 In this talks Pearse Lawlor examines the murder of RIC DI Swanzy in August 1920, and the events which led to serious sectarian rioting and the burning of Catholic owned property in Lisburn throughout summer 1920. View the video here: https://youtu.be/W8x9T9ofcuQ This series was generously supported by
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Video: Prof Brian Walker – Centenaries, 1920-23: commemorations, conflict and conciliation In this talk, Prof Brian Walker explores the issue of anniversaries, centenaries and commemoration in Ireland, from 1798 in 1998 through to 2021 and the ‘birth’ of Northern Ireland, reflecting on our changing response to remembering. Brian M. Walker is an historian and Professor
