Old Portadown

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Fifty-seven photographs of Portadown, taken in the days when the town could still claim to be the centre of the railway network, the so-called 'Hub of the North', and when it still had individual market days for pork, fowl, butter, eggs and potatoes. The railways and the markets are all featured among the photographs, as well as the busy port, the pipe bands, the fire brigade, the various sports clubs, and a very unusual shot of the pupils of the 'Ladies' School' concocting laughing gas in their laboratory.