The True Blues (Fb) are a flute band from the Edgarstown and Brownstown area in Portadown. Montague Street/Union Street, Portadown next to the bonfire ground and the Mid-Ulster brigade mural.
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This Portadown mural combines the Ulster Volunteers of 1912 with the contemporary UVF. The panels show “UVF gun-smuggler 1913”, “Firearms training 1913”, and “Sir Edward Carson about to address troops at Portadown railway station” while the roll of honour lists modern-day volutneers Joey Neill, Horace [Harris] Boyle, Wesley Summerville [Somerville], Derek McFarlane, Jackie Marshall, Wilson “Winky” [also “Winkie”] Fry, Robin Jackson, Richard Jameson, Mark “Sqid” Elliott. This is progress compared to the previous mural, shown below, which had hooded gunmen active in the centre of the mural, with the crest of the 36th (Ulster) Division on the side-wall.
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The phrase “They rose in dark and evil days to free our native land” comes from the song ‘The Memory Of The Dead‘, about the 1798 Rebellion, rather than the creation of the UDA in 1971.
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“1912-2002 Ulster Volunteer Force – 90 years” linking the Ulster Volunteers of 1912 and WWI with the Carrickfergus company of the contemporary UVF’s 1st East Antrim Battalion.
The Larches and Blackthorn Park in Carrickfergus
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The main mural features the flags of the Ulster Volunteers and YCV, along with Ulster Banner and St Andrew’s Saltire, while the side wall features contemporary UVF brands. It is not clear who John Everitt – on the memorial stone – was. Please comment if you have information. The Larches, Carrickfergus.
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Four UVF hooded gunmen train on the hills next to Maple Gardens, Carrickfergus.
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YCV cut-outs in Blackthorn Park, Carrickfergus.
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Back-to-back hooded UVF gunmen next to one of the bonfire sites in Sunnylands, Carrickfergus.
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“Sunnylands Young Loyalists”, with cut-out assault rifles and red hand.
Bridewell Drive, Carrickfergus
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This Ulster Grenadiers Flute Band (Fb) board in Bridewell Drive, Carrickfergus, shows a modern grenade at the centre of the flags of the UK, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. If 1996 is the year the board was produced, it is 12 years old at the time of this photo.
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