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Lurgan Workhouse

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“Lurgan Workhouse 1841-1929. The workhouse was opened to serve the poor of Lurgan in 1841. In the mid-1840’s, during the famine, there were 403 inmates. This mural is dedicated to all the men, women and children who lived worked and died here during very harsh times. In 1929 it became Lurgan And Portadown District Hospital. Since 1972  it has been known as Lurgan Hospital.” The mural is across the street from the hospital.

Russell Drive/Tandragee Road, Lurgan

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Welcome To The Shankill

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“Welcome to the Shankill” in ten languages, home of Norman Whiteside, Baroness May Blood, Jimmy Warnock, William Conor, Col. James Cunningham, Johnny McQuade, Wayne McCullough, and the Rev. Henry Montgomery. The attractions include Crumlin Road gaol, lower Shankill murals, Bayardo victims memorial, Carson mural, Cupar Way peace line, Shankill memorial garden, Spectrum centre, Shankill graveyard, Woodvale park. An ‘Alternatives’ stencil would later be added in the bottom right.

Gardiner Street, Belfast

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On The Shankill

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This sequence of ‘Shankill life’ murals is led off by Baroness May Blood, a Labour peer and MBE for her work with the TGWU and integrated education. The other panels show children’s art and celebrate the sense of community, those who served and died in WWI, 11th night, the Orange Order, and the women’s group.

Cupar Way, Belfast

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Mourneview Youth

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Here is the scene at Mourne Road along the side of the Mace (later a Spar). On the low wall is a ‘Mourneview Youth’ mural (presumably by BlazeFX) – there were previously LVF murals on this wall. In the bricked-up windows are a series of cultural panels, on the Battle Of The Boyne, music, William McFadzean’s VC, fire, faith, defence (WWI), plus one other (perhaps ‘school’?)

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Streets Of Yesteryear

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“Streets Of Yesteryear” showing (at top) Bobby Jackson (senior) painting the mural and, at right, the mural in Clarence Place. On the left is Wapping Lane, where arches are hung every year. At the bottom is the gaol tower.

The plaque at right reads “Streets Of Yesteryear. Unveiled on 7th August 2009 by Mrs. B. Holland (née Jackson) daughter of the late Bobby Jackson pictured above. Part of the Creating Change Programme, Cathedral Youth Club.”

Wapping Lane, Londonderry

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A-Z History Of The Shankill Road

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“The new mural [replacing Shankill Rd Supports Drumcree] presents and A-Z of the Shankill, celebrating history and tradition and depicting images of those who have become celebrated far beyond. Artist Lesley Cherry worked with members of the Lower Shankill Community Association to research this digital work which was installed May 2009.”

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69 Gold Rush

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From the info board, later added to the left: “The Gold Rush mural replaces a paramilitary image of two silhouetted gunmen representing Scottish Brigade. This new image by artist Tim McCarthy represents an event in July 1969 in Christopher Street when children digging in the rubble of the then demolished ‘Scotch Flats’ discovered a hoard of gold sovereigns. Word spread quickly and thus began ‘the Gold Rush’.

The project was funded by the Re-imaging Communities programme of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and delivered by Belfast City Council with the support of the Lower Shankill Community Association. The project would not have been possible without the support and participation of the local community.”

With support from the Arts Council, Belfast City Council, and Lower Shankill Community Association. By Tim McCarthy/Verz in Hopewell Crescent, Belfast.

There is a short series of BBC radio programmes on the finding of the sovereigns and how they came to be in the chimney.

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