Old Portadown

Fifty-seven lively photographs of Portadown from the days when the town could still claim to be the centre of the railway network. Back then it was the 'Hub of the North', and still had individual market days for pork, fowl, butter, eggs and potatoes. The railways and the markets are featured 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.