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Some of our Yesterdays!

Christmas 1930 in Moy

davidacheson7 The 1930s Leave a comment 16th Sep 2023 1 Minute

Concert in Courthouse 1910

davidacheson7 The 1910s Leave a comment 15th Sep 2023 1 Minute

Robert Johnston retires

Robert A Johnston was headmaster of Moy Regional Primary School during the 1930s and the start of the 1940s. His fingerprints were over much of Moy during that period such was the respect he was held in. His wife was a teacher too. Parents and pupils held a retirement social for him a presented him with a gold watch and a substantial cheque. Many people made speeches extolling his virtues.
davidacheson7 The 1940s Leave a comment 14th Aug 202314th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Moy School 1945

Moy Public Elementary School - or Moy Regional Primary School as it is better known had its older pupils pose for a photograph with the school headmaster George McQuade. One of the young students George Spotswood would go on to represent Ulster at rugby and become a top official within the Irish Rugby Football Union and world rugby! I also discover that George's schoolfriend in Moy was Andy Crawford who went on to become President of the IRFU

Photograph courtesy of Lila Jackson

davidacheson7 The 1940s Leave a comment 12th Aug 202314th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Collegeland Annual Sports 1940

Collegeland held their Annual Sports on Sunday 26th May 1940. A case of 'life goes on as normal' despite the war gripping the nation. Each village in those days appeared to have their own sporty Summer Sunday with money raised going to the parochial funds. A ceili would usually follow in the evening.

Original article and advertisement originated in the Dungannon Observer 1940.

davidacheson7 The 1940s Leave a comment 12th Aug 202312th Aug 2023 1 Minute

John King’s house

Not sure why this small house on the Benburb Road out of Moy and the birthplace of John King who was the sole survivor of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition to cross Australia, has been allowed to get in such an overgrown mess.

Photograph courtesy of Lila Jackson

davidacheson7 21st Century Leave a comment 11th Aug 202320th Aug 2023 1 Minute

The Round Tower

This round tower was part of the Roxborough Castle estate and apart from the gates opposite the Eurospar in the Moy is the only visible reminder of this great building. There are a lot of round towers still standing inIreland. With the entrance door blocked up this one appears to be out of use and just there for historical and decorative purposes.

Photograph courtesy of Lila Jackson

davidacheson7 21st Century Leave a comment 8th Aug 202320th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Moy PS Football team

Moy Primary School usually had games against Howard School, Moygashel once, maybe twice a year. And then there was the annual Five -a-Side Schools competition at Augher. Those were our first steps into a very competitive football arena between villages in the South Tyrone area.
davidacheson7 The 1970s Leave a comment 5th Aug 20235th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Big Changes!

Where once there were the green fields of my youth there are now the bricks and mortar of large estates in what was once rural Moy. I don't mind progress and for many families these houses represent their hopes and dreams for their next fifty years! Nothing wrong with my nostalgia taking a back seat.
davidacheson7 21st Century Leave a comment 2nd Aug 20232nd Aug 2023 1 Minute

Art Gallery Night P1

An Art Gallery Night was organised to raise funds for Benburb Priory. many talented artists displayed their work – among them Bob Toner, Paddy McCann, and Frances McKenna. Irish music filled the air as the large crowd socialised over a wine and cheese platter.
davidacheson7 21st Century Leave a comment 31st Jul 202311th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Art Gallery Night P2

There wasn't just art on display at the Benburb Priory Art Gallery Night ; there was music too a guitarist, harpist and Irish musicians playing fiddles, banjos, tin whistles and bodhrans. Sounded good.
davidacheson7 21st Century Leave a comment 29th Jul 20233rd Aug 2023 1 Minute

Kimmitts

The name Kimmitt was not a local name I recognised so I did some research on the family of Robert who had been born in Moy. He moved to England, became Mayor of Ealing - his two sons went to Campbell College. This article shows his wife's obituary.
davidacheson7 The 1940s Leave a comment 28th Jul 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Extension

This article shows an aerial photograph of Moy Primary School from around 1979-1981. It details the school extension and the use of land that was once's Dobson's field.
davidacheson7 21st Century Leave a comment 24th Jul 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Butterfly

True story is told of a man at Benburb Priory who fired an air rifle in the direction of a butterfly, missed and killed a woman who was sitting talking behind a bush unseen to him. Totally accidental and unbelievably tragic.

A short extract from the story as it appeared in the Dungannon Observer in 1955

davidacheson7 The 1950s Leave a comment 22nd Jul 202312th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Tomás Ó Fiaich

I had no idea who Father Fee was when I. read about him leaving Clonfeacle Parish in 1953. I was shocked to learn later that he would become Cardinal Tomas O Fiaich. Apparently he could sing a song or two. There's now a Memorial Library dedicated to him in Armagh.

Extracted in part from an article in the Dungannon Observer in 1953

davidacheson7 The 1950s Leave a comment 21st Jul 202312th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Social Events

I often wondered what impact the war had on the social lives of the people of Moy, Charlemont and District. For Catholics it looks like life carried on as normal whereas across the religious line Protestants were a little more war-wary and didn't live it up while their kith and kin were out fighting for their lives on foreign battlefields. They saved their powder for when the war was won!
davidacheson7 The 1940s Leave a comment 20th Jul 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Moy United

Moy United had a good side that won quite a few trophies in the late 1960s and 1970s when I would have been watching them. They played a Wilbur Cush Select side at Duff's Park as part of the 1967 Festival programme in Moy, Co. Tyrone. The Moy Ladies team were also in action against Mayfair.
davidacheson7 The 1960s Leave a comment 19th Jul 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Fort Painting

I had never seen this painting by Thomas Creswick of Charlemont Fort from around the mid 19th century before I found it online today . It is held in Armagh County Museum.
davidacheson7 19th Century Leave a comment 19th Jul 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

The Fort burnt

Charlemont Fort in Charlemont, Co. Armagh was burnt by masked Irishmen in 1920. I assume it was for political reasons and not because it was a cold August that year
davidacheson7 The 1920s Leave a comment 14th Jul 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Maps

I had no idea the Moy Square used to be known in olden days as The Diamond - maybe even Moy Diamond. Nor was Trew & Moy Railway Station always known by that name - welcome True & Moy Railway Station and True Mount! I wonder what initiated the changes.
davidacheson7 21st Century Leave a comment 13th Jul 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Adam

Photo of Adam back in the 1960s when he used to live in Moy and another of him in 2023 in Coleraine.
davidacheson7 21st Century Leave a comment 9th Jul 202317th Sep 2023 1 Minute

John Orr

Interesting how a strange obelisk shaped headstone in a graveyard can grab your attention and how you can then link it to an article in the Tyrone Courier in the 1950s. I ended up learning that rugby legends like Patrick Lambie and Gordon Brown could trace their lineage back to John Orr a wee Benburb guy who owned a series of megastores in South Africa away back in the early part of the 20th century!
davidacheson7 The 1950s Leave a comment 1st Jul 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Blanks

So often a football team has no luck in front of goal. Players off form, woodwork gets in the way, goalkeepers suddenly become world class. Well for Benburb Eoghan Read their manager sent his marksmen out at half time to practice shooting as they had fired blanks in the first half. That's life at the bottom!
davidacheson7 The 1950s Leave a comment 28th Jun 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Quakers

I grew up around three miles from this Quaker church and its graveyard and had to look where it was on Google Maps to find its location. What a secret place this turned out to be. As a purveyor of all the graveyards in the area now I have to say this one is the one I would love to haunt when I die! So peaceful with birdsong everywhere. Or maybe I just caught it on a beautiful summer's day!
davidacheson7 21st Century Leave a comment 24th Jun 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Graves

I was always wary about walking into unfamiliar graveyards and Clonfeacle outside Blackwatertown was a case of the unknown to me. I wanted to see the graves of some of the people I had read about in the books I have been compiling. The sad story of Margaret Casey who died trying to sae her son, the Cromie girls who drowned in a bad road accident. Michael Collins who was killed in New York. I was at Collegeland too - to pay respects to Paul Mills, and to see the graves of the Mackle children and young Dermot McNeice.
davidacheson7 The 1950s Leave a comment 23rd Jun 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Festival Week

The locals who started up Festival Week need a huge round of applause for being forerunners for community action in the days before the Troubles started and in an area that would be right at the centre of the Murder Triangle as it later became known. There was no hint of division in the advertised 1968 programme as both sides and all ages shared in the craic that was to be had during this Festival Week.
davidacheson7 The 1960s Leave a comment 21st Jun 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Rev. J.J. Jennings

Very few people in Moy Presbyterian church have heard of Rev. J.J. Jennings who ministered in Moy for around six months between Rev McMillan and Rev Faulkner in the mid 1950s. So I did a little research on him, contacted his son and was pretty amazed at some of the things I learned about his father and ancestors. Research took me to New Brunswick in Canada and Derry in Northern Ireland! And to hymns like There is a green hill and Once in Royal David's City
davidacheson7 The 1950s Leave a comment 20th Jun 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Richard Lloyd

Richard Lloyd was the Ronan O'Gara of Irish Rugby a full 100 years earlier. Some call him Ireland's greatest out half. Certainly the most prodigious schoolboy outside half who with his Portora Royal School classmates dominated schoolboy rugby at the time. Played for Ireland almost straight out of school and would later captained them 11 times. He wasn't bad at cricket either. And all this from a wee boy who grew up in Moy!
davidacheson7 The 1950s Leave a comment 18th Jun 202310th Aug 2023 1 Minute

Argory Christmas Fair

Dreaming of a White Christmas at the Argory Christmas Fair. See what festive life was like back in the 1800s. The Christmas table, the presents wrapped up beneath the tree. Outside in the courtyard experience the live music, the crafts on display and grab something from the food stalls.
davidacheson7 21st Century Leave a comment 4th Dec 202231st Jul 2023 1 Minute

Remembrance Sunday

Remembrance Sunday in Moy a solemn occasion to remember those who served and those who died in two world wars.
davidacheson7 21st Century Leave a comment 13th Nov 202231st Jul 2023 1 Minute

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