Many thanks for the memories......GREAT show! I was born 1950 in the Wells (85) in my Grannies house / WEENUNS school, but brought up in Creggan and Rosemount school. Keep looking for pics of the Wells (happy childhood) in the 50s 60s and 70s as I am at that age now and will keep looking. Well done!
Some good ones there Phil. I suppose in many ways it could be any post-industrial city. Except for what happened next. The Troubles seem to infuse everything that went before with a great sense if innocence. A lot of these streets were being torn down when I was a kid. Where was Orchard Lane?
Thanks for the comment Nechtan, I suppose there are many similar stories as you say from any city in the British Isles and beyond. I wrote 4 wee books aout my growing up in Derry amongst a working class people who experienced severe poverty and had no state benefits either to ease their lot.
Nechtan, Orchard Lane entrance was in Orchard Street where the entrance to Foyleside shopping center is now, It lead down to SugarhouseLLane and Mattys lane and into Foyle Street
They were interesting and great times all right Gina, Safe wherever we went and no yellow cowards running about in gangs beating up young innocent teenagers as they do now
@@philcunningham2247 God love you my friend Phil. I read your wonderful books about Derry often. I had such a wonderful childhood in our town and when I was a teenager I could get off the bus from Borderland and walk home without any fear what so ever and our back door was never locked but mammy always waited for us.xx
thank you Phil for all these lovely memories.I was born in Nailors Row in the late fifties.I grew up around all these streets,made many friends for life. Don't remember many cars in Nailors Row,tough times.
My Granddad's two cousin's were born & brought up in the Nialor's Row, They were called Toby & Robert Moore, he lived lodged with them for a few years himself, his name James Frew.
Thanks Phil for your time and effort to bring us this beautiful collection, I was born in the City and County hospital 1951..We left Derry in the 1960s and I spent a lot of my time in Limerick I always knew Derry was in my blood, I love going home to Derry..Now spending most of my time in Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands in a village where the people are as friendly as Derry people believe it or not..I can’t wait to get back to Ireland this year hopefully withCorona virus behind us and spending a few days in Derry city..🙏👍
I left a comment above. My mother had her appendix removed in the City and County and when I was about 8 years old I had a cut to my chin stitched there as the result of a fall playing football on tarmac.
Great to see these photos. I did the Gram Parsons Derry Down video because I am a big Gram Parsons fan and wanted to show everyone where he got started. The story really turned into how the town saved the teen club he started for the young musicians to perform. Your video brought it around full circle for me. My family came from Ireland in the early 1800's and settled in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. Maybe because it reminded them of the land they had left behind, who knows. Thanks Don Cochran
Fantastic trip of old Derry! I think the Bog side looked far nicer back then & would have been a really interesting place to walk around for tourist today compared to its bland uninteresting design of today. Family lived in Pilot's Row 1930s
