How many remember the Market on Tuesdays? Before the Swimming Pool was built. Hector selling wares from the back of a lorry, Cheap Alec who sold chipped crockery ( Delph it was called then ) etc. I remember going there with my mother in the late forties, brother in the pram and me sitting on top of him. I have recollections of a pig escaping and it being chased by farmers. Also her buying little fluffy yellow chickens , some were dead when we go them home to Lisnatrunk. I have seen photos of the Market being held in Market Square but that was before my time. The new pub built on the site of the old Swimming Pool I,ve been told is called Tuesday Bell in commeration of the Market as apparently on Tuesdays at the beginning or end of the Market a bell was rung.
Donald

Donald, the Tuesday market was as much part of Lisburn and country folk as the wee park was to me. I remember there were all kinds of stalls to buy from. I used to enjoy the stall that sold the embroidery threads, and the cushion covers and cloths. I still have a table cloth with crinoline ladies on each of the four corners I embroidered as a child. I seem to remember it was a very trendy thing to do in the fifties. My granny Gilliland would have walked miles to go to a good embroiderer to do her robins on her runners.

Liz

Iremember Hector selling out of the back of his truck,had he known back then what a celeb he would become, do you think he would have put his prices up?. Ken.

donald
remember the market well.don,t know about school attendance maybe it was holidays but it was a great thing for us kids from antrim street area to go to the market being so close.
i used to like watching the farmers trying to do a deal with each other. one was spitting continuously into his open palm and trying to grab the other fellas hand to hit the palms together to make the deal the look of intense concentration on their faces and the shouts c,mon c,mon. no paperwork or receipts in those days.
i remember hector as well '' i,m not asking 9 shillings or even 8 shillings you can have it for seven and six'
when you look back on it every day seem to be sunny?

I recall cattle being bought and sold, hens hanging by their claws, once seen a man from the Low Road walking home a live turkey on a rope for Xmas dinner from the market. Talking about cattle , anyone remember Moody Parker herding his cows to pasture in what is now Fort Hill school?

Fraser
He must have been a very well to do man that could afford a turkey at Christmas. If we were lucky we got, once a year normally at Christmas a fowl, roasted, boiled, stewed and the fat was then used to fry chips until the middle of January. Remember the Christmas Clubs, you started around July , paid a sum of money in every week to the shopkeeper ( an interest free loan ) Every time I reread the book from William Thestle " The ragged trousered Philanthropists" I think about those times and ask myself how could we have been so naive?
Donald

Robert Trestle, Donald!

Thanks Dabbler
Did you know that was his Nom de Plume? Tressell being one of the most used tools in the painting trade, in reality he carried the Irish name Noonan

ON A bright June day in Liverpool in 1977, hundreds of trade unionists and socialists took part in a march to rally at the final resting place of Robert Noonan - known more popularly as Robert Tressell, author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
Donald