Armagh St Patricks Cathedral

Burns Margaret, on June 14, 2009, said:

These wonderful photos bring back happy childhood memories of my summer holidays with my grandma and namesake, Margaret Burns on Bandbrook Hill. My mother and sister and I would arrive each summer by boat and be transported to Bandbrook Hill in a horse and buggy. I loved being there, feeling the freedom from school uniforms and rigid rules and regulations in London. We played on the railway tracks, in the fields eating wheat from the stalks, and picking mushrooms freshly popped up around the cow fields. We spent many hours up at the cathedral, climbing the steps and entering the dark doorway. There was a spring with an iron pump and cup attached to a chain. That water was ice cold and wonderful. Some of my happiest childhood memories come from Armagh and the friends we had there during and after WWII. My family & I left England in 1952 and have lived in the USA since. I chose the Burns name as my surname many years ago.

ard mhaca, on December 17, said:

I left Armagh in 1962 and went to Belfast and then from there in 1963 to London to work. Got married in 66 and came back to work in Belfast Airport in 68. I became a teacher and worked in Twinbrook Dunmurry eventually leaving in 1983 to migrate to Australia where I still live with my wife and three grown up children. I originated in Banbrook Hill, Poplar Street to be exact, which now no longer exists. I have many fond memories of all my schoolmates at St. Pat's Primary, also of fishing in the Callan River at Duke's Grove etc., Armagh has to be a place of real pilgrimage for those of us who no longer reside there. The people have not changed, so if you are an old Armaghian put it high on your list of places to see or return to. God Bless all.