Here is another selection of old News Letter photographs from the 1980s. There is also a very special photo from February 1965 showing shipyard workers reading a News Letter board which told of the death of Belfast playwright Sam Thompson.
Meanwhile in December 1988 the Apprentice Boys of Derry had converged in Comber for an historic re-enactment. A letter – a replica of one sent on the same day in 1688 – had left the town in the safekeeping of two marathon runners for Londonderry.
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Not even a red light could stop Trevor Whitten's Earl of Alexander as he led the Apprentice Boys' parade through Comber in December 1988. The News Letter noted that members of the Apprentice Boys of Derry had been urged to show the same resolve as the original apprentices who had closed the city gates. The plea came on the day that the organisation began it's celebrations marking the 300th anniversary of the Siege of Derry. Co Down members converged in Comber for an historic re-enactment. A letter – a replica of one sent on the same day in 1688 – had left the town in the safekeeping of two marathon runners for Londonderry. The letter warned of a plot by the nationalist Redshanks to rise up on December 9, 1688, and murder Protestants. Picture: Eddie Harvey/News Letter archives
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Back to school: Roadferry League Cup final hero Alan Paterson presenting a shield to the Mersey Street side which won the primary school five-a-side soccer final against Strandtown in December 1988. The team consisted of Paul Leeman, Victor Gibson and Robert Hamilton. Picture: News Letter archives
![To mark six months protesting against the Anglo-Irish Agreement DUP assemblymen in May 1986 by seized control of the switchboard room at Stormont. “Is Tom King [the current Secretary of State for Northern Ireland] aware of our coup d’etat?” asked Fermanagh and South Tyrone assemblyman the Reverend Ian Foster. The protestors held the room for two-and-a-half hours before police arrived with a sledgehammer to smash the door down and evict them. A spokesman for the Northern Ireland office branded the protest a “publicity stunt” and said that it had caused inconvenience to the public. Picture: News Letter archives](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/TUFZMTI2MDUyNjQy.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
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To mark six months protesting against the Anglo-Irish Agreement DUP assemblymen in May 1986 by seized control of the switchboard room at Stormont. “Is Tom King [the current Secretary of State for Northern Ireland] aware of our coup d’etat?” asked Fermanagh and South Tyrone assemblyman the Reverend Ian Foster. The protestors held the room for two-and-a-half hours before police arrived with a sledgehammer to smash the door down and evict them. A spokesman for the Northern Ireland office branded the protest a “publicity stunt” and said that it had caused inconvenience to the public. Picture: News Letter archives
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Ian Paisley at an Apprentice Boys march at the Diamond, Londonderry on August 12, 1980.