THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: A black cat, a bouquet and a broom for Sandy Row election candidate
From the News Letter, May 22, 1929 Saturday, 22nd May 2021, 6:00 am A flute band marches past a UDA mural at a Remembrance Day ceremony in Sandy Row, Belfast, in May 2007. Picture: Justin Kernoghan/Photopress Belfast The News Letter had reported that Major J H McCormick, the Unionist candidate, and Colonel Woods, the Independent candidate, had both toured the St Anne’s Division the previous night as part of the their respective election campaigns for the forthcoming election. Sandy Row had “seethed with excitement” throughout the evening, reported the paper’s correspondent. They tol...
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