IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Brookview Close, NEWRY, BT35 7FB
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Brookview Close, BT35 7FB by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (42 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
A view of the village from Bessbrook Presbyterian Church
Image: © HENRY CLARK
Taken: 22 May 2009
0.04 miles
2
A disused draper and milliner shop in Church Street
W.J. Griffith's shop is listed in a street directory for 1910 and the business was probably much older than that.
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 15 May 2012
0.06 miles
3
The Bessbrook Methodist Church
This place of religious worship stands in Church Street and faces the Bessbrook Branch Library.
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 15 May 2012
0.07 miles
4
The west side of Charlemont Square, Bessbrook
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 15 May 2012
0.08 miles
6
Charlemont Square, Bessbrook
Bessbrook was designed as a model village established around linen mills owned by a Quaker entrepreneur John Grubb Richardson.
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 15 May 2012
0.09 miles
7
The Avila Nursing Home, Bessbrook
This was purpose built in 1989. This is operated by the Southern Health and Social Care Trust.
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 16 May 2012
0.09 miles
9
Bessbrook
A view of the Craigmore Viaduct which carries the Belfast to Dublin railway line across the valley. Newry is beyond the viaduct, with the Mourne Mountains in the background.
Image: © Wilson Adams
Taken: 9 Feb 2006
0.11 miles
10
Bessbrook War Memorial in Charlemont Square
The Memorial bears the names of almost ninety men who lost their lives in World War I and fifteen men and women who were lost in WWII. The top name on the 1939-45 panel is that of Sister Beatrice Olivia Dowling 266662, of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service who was drowned when the SS Khedive Ismail was sunk by a Japanese submarine off the Maldives on 12 February 1944, age 24 and who has no known grave. She was the daughter of Sam and Sadie Dowling, of Belfast.
http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/ships/Khedive_Ismail_SS/html/nurses_database_15.htm
http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/ships/Khedive_Ismail_SS/html/history.htm
One of those named on the 1914-18 Roll of Honour is Pt. Edmund Gray RIF, a stretcher bearer, killed in the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 and who has no known grave.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/familys-pride-for-ulster-war-hero-with-no-grave-edmund-gray-died-in-no-mans-land-rescuing-wounded-30330479.html
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 15 May 2012
0.11 miles