Mr Roy McDougall, right, commercial manager BP, handing over cheques to Mr Arthur McAlister, YFC secretary, and Mrs Lawrence McMillan, chairman of the NI Ploughing Association, in September 1980. Included is Mr Frank Espley, secretary of the NIPA. Picture: News Letter archivesMr Roy McDougall, right, commercial manager BP, handing over cheques to Mr Arthur McAlister, YFC secretary, and Mrs Lawrence McMillan, chairman of the NI Ploughing Association, in September 1980. Included is Mr Frank Espley, secretary of the NIPA. Picture: News Letter archives
Mr Roy McDougall, right, commercial manager BP, handing over cheques to Mr Arthur McAlister, YFC secretary, and Mrs Lawrence McMillan, chairman of the NI Ploughing Association, in September 1980. Included is Mr Frank Espley, secretary of the NIPA. Picture: News Letter archives

IN PICTURES: Through The Archives – looking back at October 1987

Today’s selection from the News Letter’s photo archive looks back at October 1987.

The photos include one of the new head at Union College, Belfast, Dennis Cooke alongside the Presbyterian Church, the Right Reverend Dr William Fleming.

While another photo was taken at a service of thanksgiving and rehallowing of the Kilclief Parish Church, Co Down in October 1987, included in the picture are the Bishop of Down and Dromore, the Right Reverend Gordon McMullan, the rector of Kilclief, Canon Brian Mayne, the Reverend Mervyn Dickson, the Reverend James Carson and the Reverend John Gowen.

See who you might see from days gone by.

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