Billy Bingham presenting a cheque for £100,000 to Lady Dunleath, president of the Northern Ireland Council for Orthopaedic Development in February 1982. Included are Mr Jimmy James, chairman of NICOD, Mrs Thelma Greeves, organising secretary of NICOD, and Mr George Abbott from Bristol. Picture: News Letter archivesBilly Bingham presenting a cheque for £100,000 to Lady Dunleath, president of the Northern Ireland Council for Orthopaedic Development in February 1982. Included are Mr Jimmy James, chairman of NICOD, Mrs Thelma Greeves, organising secretary of NICOD, and Mr George Abbott from Bristol. Picture: News Letter archives
Billy Bingham presenting a cheque for £100,000 to Lady Dunleath, president of the Northern Ireland Council for Orthopaedic Development in February 1982. Included are Mr Jimmy James, chairman of NICOD, Mrs Thelma Greeves, organising secretary of NICOD, and Mr George Abbott from Bristol. Picture: News Letter archives

IN PICTURES: Looking back through the News Letter photograph archives (1982)

Today we have another selection of photographs from the News Letter archives dating from 1982.

There are several interesting photographs including one of Mrs Flora Shields handing over the medals her late husband, Major George Shields, to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers’ Museum. Major Shields medals had been stolen in 1964 when they were swiped from a shop during repairs. The turned up in 1980 in the East End of London. Mrs Flora Shields, the major’s widow, agreed to exchange the copies for the originals.

And there is also a photograph of Councillor Cedric Wilson launching the public petition demanding a full judicial inquiry into the Kincora Boys’ Home sex scandal outside the home on the Upper Newtownards Road in Belfast

See who you might see from days gone by.

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