Three images from Milewater Drive in New Mossley in the summer of 2010.
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Milewater Bonfire
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Gregg & Carson
John “Grug” Gregg and Robert “Rab” Carson of the UDA’s Southeast Antrim brigade were killed on February 1st, 2003, on orders from Johnny Adair of the West Belfast brigade after Gregg and other brigade bosses voted to expel Adair from the UDA (October 2002).
Replaces the Cloughfern Eddie.
Knockenagh Avenue, Newtownabbey
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Cloughfern Young Conquerors
The Cloughfern Young Conquerors (a UDA flute band) (Fb) was founded in 1973 in Rathfern – the same year as the UFF.
Previously: Eddie The Head as CFY band-member.
Knockenagh Ave, Newtownabbey
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Cloughfern Protestant Hall
“Cloughfern Protestant Hall 1866” serves as the starting point for marches in the area. Doagh Road, Newtownabbey
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A More Sophisticated Form Of Internment
“Supergrass trials amount to a more sophisticated form of internment. Failed 1980, again 2007, doomed 2010.” In 2010 there were one | two trials involving UVF grasses, the latter involving Ian Stewart from Ballyearl Crescent.
Ballyearl Drive, Newtownabbey
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Welcome To New Mossley
2010 image of the New Mossley mosaic (2009) in Ballyearl Drive, with various UVF insignia above from previous murals. “This mosaic reflects the cultural & industrial heritage of the area. New Mossley Community Group is proud to be part of this project and hope it gives pleasure to everyone. We would like to thank the Arts Council and Groundwork for their help and support. Unveiled by Jeanette Ervine, Dawn Purvis MLA, Mena Mitchell 17th January 2009.”
The mosaic shows/references Lillian Bland, the first woman to fly solo (1910); Pattersons Spade Mill; Mossley Mill, 50 years old in 2008; the 36th and 16th Divisions of World War I; local youth groups. The work was developed by artist Martin McClure.
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We Gave Our Today
“When you go home/Tell them of us/And say for your tomorrow/We gave our today.” is a WWII epitaph by John Maxwell Edmonds in Kohima Cemetery. It is shown here on a plaque on a stone in New Mossley community garden (also the site of a time capsule).
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Welcome To The Shankill Road
The red hand of Ulster in three configurations: “We are proud, defiant, welcoming.” Mural by Blaze FX depicting polaroids of the blitz, the Twelfth, sports, murals. The location of the mural is designed to be seen by tourists travelling between the so-called International Wall (and Northumberland Street murals) and the Shankill.
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Stevie ‘Top Gun’ McKeag
The mural to UDA assassin Stevie ‘Top Gun’ McKeag is again (or, still?) in progress. Compared to the 2009 version (itself incomplete) the poppies around the portrait have lost their leaves (perhaps due to a new background colour) and his dates of birth and death have been turned into a Union Flag and Ulster Banner. See also 2008 and 2007.
Hopewell Crescent, west Belfast
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Lower Shankill Bonfire
The building of the 2010 bonfire in the lower Shankill estate gets under way. In the background is a mural to the RHC’s Stevie McCrea.
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