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Malcolm Road, CRAIGAVON, BT66 8DG

See Image (July 2009). Another part of the same street – opposite Mourne Road. This well-landscaped street, with numerous trees, might have been a Housing Trust estate. Further information welcome.

A cleared site at the corner of the Millennium Way (out of picture to the left). The agents’ description includes “The property comprises a development site which totals 1.2 acres approximately, with security fencing around its perimeter. The site has been cleared and some piling work has been completed (subject to verification) . . . The site lies within the development limit and approval has been secured for part 3, part 4 storey block providing 44 apartments (subject to verification), with associated car parking and a ground floor day centre. (reference number N/2006/0023/F granted 21 March 2008) The site has also lapsed permission for retail warehousing and could offer potential for commercial use such as offices, health facilities or leisure unit, subject to planning”. This photograph appears as a matter of geographical and historical record only. I have no connection with any of the parties involved in the sale.

The Town Hall was built in 1858 and has recently been refurbished. It has a simple and restrained exterior but boasts a fine hall. The Victorian style auditorium and balcony can seat 272 people and smaller rooms are available for community use

The first Methodist Chapel was opened in a small house in Nettleton's Court, Queen Street by the Rev. John Wesley on 19th June 1778. By 1802 this chapel became too small for the congregation and a new chapel was built in High Street, parallel to the street and to the rear of where the present church now stands. Image In 1823 a Primitive Methodist chapel was built in Castle Lane. A mission of Methodist New Connexion opened in Lurgan in 1841 but seemed to have faded out by 1856. In that year the New Connexion chapel was acquired by the Primitive Methodist. This building is now the Queen Street Methodist Church. The Wesleyan Methodist and the Primitive Methodist united in June 1878 to form The Methodist Church in Ireland.

The Church opened in 1826 and was extensively renovated in 1910. It replaced an earlier building at the rear, built in 1802, when the first Methodist Chapel (from 1778) in Nettleton's Court, Queen Street became too small for the congregation. The present building has a simple classical facade. Image

Gracey Drive in Lurgan's Mourneview Estate.

Brookehill in Lurgan's Mourneview Estate.

A grating cover, cast by the Portadown Foundry, at Queen Street (“Park Street” on the Google map) near Foster Place. Now closed, the business seems to have traded for around 130 years since the 1840’s, from Foundry Street, Portadown.