A selection of images from the Magee Community Collection

1. Digital Derry’s Past
Around the world, communities are examining the issues
of preserving cultural identity, documenting local
history, promoting tourism and examining their shared
heritage. Until now, many communities have relied on
official records, tradition, customs, stories (both oral
and written), language, myth and similar means for the
preservation of cultural identity and community
memory. It is possible that on-line technologies may
provide a means of augmenting community memory
through the provision of highly interactive and widely
distributed means of gathering, indexing and archiving
multimedia assets.

2. Portrait of Magee
staff 1884-1885 -
Magee University
College

3. From a postcard of Wooden Bridge, Derry 1863

4. White Horse Inn, Campsie 1902

5. Community Memory
Some communities currently have no multimedia
assets archived, others simply want to organize the
materials they already possess into a cohesive
whole. The Magee Community Collection began the
journey of exploring the tools, processes and the
documentation of processes involved in building
community memory through on-line technology.

6. Derry buildings - Northern
Bank – Apprentice Boys
Memorial Hall. – Carlisle
Road, Presbyterian Church.
– The Walls and the
Northern Bank. – 2nd
Photo- Post 1894- Electric
Street Lamp –
3rd photo-Pre 1894 -
Shipquay place - Golden
Teapot visible - Gas lighting
– No Tramlines are visible.
Notice the use
of granite slabs for
cleanliness. post 1894

7. Railways & Stations -
Opposite Lough Swilly
Railway - Station Strand
Road. - Frank Longs
1924. - Shirt Factory on
right. - Valentines Beer
Making- Coopers To left
of photo. - Bus in
background 1920's. - Sir
Basil Mcfarland - Gates
backgound - Barrels
going to Buncrana for
Herring. 1924

8. Derry Buildings -
Townhall, The Diamond
- View up Shipquay
Street circa. 1900

9. The Magee Photographic Collection
The Magee campus of the University of Ulster is
fortunate to possess a large collection of nearly 4,000
photographic negatives of pictures of Derry and the
North-West of Ireland, dating from the 1860s up to
about 1970. This collection was established by the
Institute of Continuing Education in Magee in the
early 1970s and has been an invaluable source of
information for local historians. For many years,
resources were not available for the maintenance of
the collection or to make access readily available. In
1999 digitisation of most of the collection widened
access.

10. Derry Buildings - Old Townhall, The Diamond - Old
Townhall, built 1823. - Demolished by fire. Statue of
Ferguson,removed to Brooke Park 1932. Austins of the
Diamond set on fire by sparks. - View from Shipquay Street
pre - 1890

11. Amelia Earhart. - Young
boy - Gallagher,
Farmhouse of Gallaghers
in Springtown. - Amelia
Earhart b1898. - Set off
from Newfoundland May
20 1932. - Landed Mc
Cready's Lane, Ballyarnett
21st May. - Plane: A
Lockheed 'Vega' Emelia
Earhart was lost, with
co.pilot - Frederick
Noonan, in July 1937

12. Magee Community Collection
http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/mcc

13. Steam Locomotives - No.2 at Londonderry(L.& L.S.R) in front of

14. The Diamond, Derry. - Hiring fair in progress (Rabbles) - An
opportunity for rural labour to secure jobs on personal contract.
Those hired left home and lived in with the employer. These
hiring fairs came to an end on the outbreak of World War Two
when legislation concerning mobility of labour came into force
and made them untenable. circa. 1924

15. Shipquay Street, Derry – Guildhall with no
clock.

16. Guildhall ruins(after fire)
circa 1910

17. Digital Derry’s Past
Around the world, communities are examining the issues
of preserving cultural identity, documenting local
history, promoting tourism and examining their shared
heritage. Until now, many communities have relied on
official records, tradition, customs, stories (both oral
and written), language, myth and similar means for the
preservation of cultural identity and community
memory. It is possible that on-line technologies may
provide a means of augmenting community memory
through the provision of highly interactive and widely
distributed means of gathering, indexing and archiving
multimedia assets.

18. Croskery Leebody -
Prof - 1875 Prof - 1865
- Died - 1886 - Doherty
Given Witherow - Prof -
1879 Prof - 1870 Prof -
1865 - Resigned - 1895
Died - 1884 Died - 1890
- McMaster Graham -
Prof - 1875 Prof - 1878
- Resigned - 1910 -
Magee University
College

19. Factory workers
leaving work at
Tillie &
Hendersons
factory

20. Amelia Earhart with plane

21. Community Memory
Some communities currently have no multimedia
assets archived, others simply want to organize the
materials they already possess into a cohesive
whole. The Magee Community Collection began the
journey of exploring the tools, processes and the
documentation of processes involved in building
community memory through on-line technology.

22. Tillie and Hendersons. - Wm Tillie set up first shirt factory (as
we would recognise them). Tillie introduced the sewing machine
into Derry shirt-making. Founded in 1856. Photo circa 1920s.

23. One of the earliest
known photographs of
Derry. The Strand
Road embankment and
Magee University
College from across
the Foyle River.
Notice the absence of
brick professorial
buildings at Magee,
and other buildings
now standing.

24. Owencarrow Viaduct, Creeslough. County Donegal pre 1925

25. Photograph from the album "Photographs of the City of
Londonderry War Savings Campaign 1939-1945. Field-Marshal Sir
Bernard Montgomery receiving the freedom of the City of
Londonderry in the Guildhall. 1945