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Church Street, CRAIGAVON, BT62 3LN

This new Library was opened to the public in August 2001. On the ground floor, you will find the main lending area where people of all ages can have access to and borrow books, compact discs, videos, and cassettes tapes. On the first floor is an impressive technology suite with 26 computers, all of which have Internet access. The Information Service, facilitated by the Southern Education and Library Board, was housed on the second floor of the building until it was relocated, from this library, to The Library Headquarters in Armagh in August 2005.

Recently built at a corner in Mandeville Street, Portadown

The former bus station at the Fair Green with a number of long-scrapped buses on display. They include Bristol LH and RE, Leyland Leopards, a Duple-bodied Bedford VAM and a Leyland Atlantean double-decker. The waiting rooms (out of picture to the right) were wooden huts.

Church Street School, or to give it its original designation, the 'Duke of Manchester School', was founded in the mid 1800s. It was one of a number of local schools to be run under the auspices of the National Education Board. In 1882, the patron of 'the Duke's School', as it was known locally, was the then Rector of St Mark's, the Rev Augustine Fitzgerald M.A., D.D. In 1889, the Select Vestry concluded that the school required major structural 'improvements' and accordingly it was rebuilt and renamed the 'Portadown National School'. By 1925, following the creation of the new Northern Ireland state, the school became 'Church Street Public Elementary School' and around 1947, when it came under the control of the County Armagh Education Committee, it had a further name change to Church Street County Primary School. In 1970, following the opening of the new Millington Primary School, the school was closed and the premises reverted to the ownership of St Mark's Parish. The following year, the old school was given a new lease of life when it became 'Fergus Hall', in memory of Mr Samuel Fergus, one of St Mark's most respected parishioners, and it is currently used for many church activities.

This row of houses is known as Millicent Terrace. The name came from a Miss Millicent Sparrow who married Lord Mandeville, in 1822, who later became the 6th Duke of Manchester.

Two telephone boxes at the Church Street end of Mandeville Street. The origin of the street’s name can be found in Image The Duke of Manchester was the local landowner who lived at Tandragee Castle Image

Known as the Fergus Hall at the junction of Church Street and Mandaville Street

This is located on the corner of Mandeville Street and Church Street.

The Memorial records the names of local officers and men who died in the two world wars, 1914-1918 and 1939 to 1945. On a granite pedestal, the bronze statue represents an angel of peace placing a wreath on the head of a wounded soldier in the battlefield. The small Memorial, to the lower right of the picture, records the names of the local UDR soldiers who were killed during "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland.