Portrush Tales: stories, mine and yours, history.
Me dad was always told, “Portrush doesn’t have any history.” So a big surprise to find stuff going back to 1600s and 1100s, ……such a rich hoard of material, and this website is my write-up of reading of the Portrush story, with tales of me being a teenager and delivering the ‘Telegraph in the rather dramatic ’70s, of my big brothers’ stories, with archive photographs and my own, and other stories that you have added, so Portrush stories going back to the Year Dot.
So, Portrush tales: my stories, family stories, Portrush history, newspaper items, your stories, awesome photographs – topics that I had something to do with and that grab my interest. Someone writes, “Educational & entertaining” – I hope it makes for a fun read and that you enjoy it too.
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Badminton at the Kelly Hall
Portrush, Kelly Hall: “Cyril coached me – and he was the reason that me and others from the club achieved local, district and country honours.”
Three Sweet Shops (3) Stockmans, the Seaside Supply Store
George W: ‘The toffee apples and the hinged glass fronted biscuit cabinet. The ‘ding’ of the bell when you opened the door. Harry and Maggie Stockman’s friendly, welcoming demeanour. Distant childhood memories of a much simpler lifestyle….’ Me, it was ‘Oddfellows’ sweets that I liked. The jar up on the shelf, multi-coloured pastel-coloured sweets that…
Three sweet shops (2) LV Ross, Lower Main St.
Karen Ross writes me of the sweet and tobacconist shops that her family ran in Portrush. We have read of the Rock Shop, next to Rohdich’s on the Main St, run by her dad, Derek Ross; and in Part III we will discuss the Seaside Supply Store, on Causeway St, run by Karen’s maternal grandparents,…
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