IN PICTURES: Through The Archives – looking back at the 1980s
By Darryl Armitage
Published 8th Oct 2020, 10:00 BST
Updated 8th Oct 2020, 15:58 BST
During lockdown the News Letter team have been busy looking through the News Letter’s photographic archive and have picked out the best photographs from bygone days.
Here is another selection of old photographs, today’s selection comes from the 1980s.
See who you might see from days gone by.
Do you have an old photograph that you would like to share? Email: [email protected].
Do you have an old photograph that you would like to share? Email: [email protected].
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To mark six months protesting against the Anglo-Irish Agreement DUP assemblymen in May 1986 by seized control of the switchboard room at Stormont. “Is Tom King [the current Secretary of State for Northern Ireland] aware of our coup d’etat?” asked Fermanagh and South Tyrone assemblyman the Reverend Ian Foster. The protestors held the room for two-and-a-half hours before police arrived with a sledgehammer to smash the door down and evict them. A spokesman for the Northern Ireland office branded the protest a “publicity stunt” and said that it had caused inconvenience to the public. Picture: News Letter archives
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Ian Paisley at an Apprentice Boys march at the Diamond, Londonderry on August 12, 1980.
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