Derry City Bus Tours

30/05/2025

Was up with my good friend Joe today at Raphoe Indoor Market and picked up some cool RUC explosive Boxes, an old camera and a Falkland Islands commerative piece which I forgot to ask Joe about. It looks like it would have been worn or saddled on a horse. He also has one of 3 original ligographs from the 1800s of the very famous painting of 'The Relief of Derry 1689' that is housed in the Tower Museum Derry. Would love to get my hands on this ligograph Joe has. Very rare!

But folks, was very sad to hear that the shop is closing down tomorrow 😥 This place was a treasure cove for vintage and antique items of all sorts. I just loved calling down having history shown to me by Joe and with his extensive knowledge, you were always guaranteed a very interesting history lesson from Joe. Tomorrow will be their very last day Open folks so if anyone wants to call down before they close for good, nows your last chance and you never know what you'll pick up or find. Wishing Joe, Hugh and Shiela all the best for the future 💚🤍🧡
Gonna miss the shop alot 😢

26/05/2025

Happy Bank Holiday Monday folks 🤗. Just getting wee bita heat 🔥 she's a cold one today. Working hard at it 💪🚍 Getting there folks! So excited to launch this summer all goes well 🙌🙏🤗🥳

18/05/2025

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18/05/2025

Beautiful Derry Blooms 🌸🌷🌼💗

24/04/2025

Any professional mobile upholstery cleaners available Roof cloth needs some tlc 🧼🚍

20/04/2025

We will definitely have to be attending this wee event folks 🤗 Amazing work guys! 👏👏👏 Well done to everyone involved! ❤️

20/04/2025

This story is told in Visit Derry and there's a plaque across from it on the Old Northern Counties Hotel building marking were Amelia made her press conference on her landing, broadcasting the news accross the globe. Amelia was an aviation pioneer and Derrys so proud to have had her here for this very historic landing 🛩❤️🇨🇦🇮🇪

✈️ A Sky-Touched Moment in Derry: Amelia Earhart’s Irish Landing

On the morning of May 21ˢᵗ, 1932, a field outside Derry became part of world history.

After battling winds, freezing rain, and mechanical trouble for nearly 15 hours, Amelia Earhart—then just 34—landed her little red Lockheed Vega in a green field in Ballyarnett, County Derry. She had taken off from Newfoundland with dreams of Paris. She touched down in Ireland instead.

And in doing so, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Locals still tell the story: she stepped out of the plane, walked toward the Gallagher family’s cottage, and said simply, “I’ve just come from America.”

That night, she stayed with the Gallaghers. A quiet moment of hospitality in the middle of a global headline.

Derry hasn’t forgotten her. A cottage in Ballyarnett Park marks the landing. A plaque stands at the hotel where she gave her first press conference. And in 2024, a mural was unveiled to honour the moment when a courageous American pilot found herself not in Paris, but in Ulster.

History often remembers the flight.
But Derry remembers the landing. ♥🤍



📸Newsletter

20/04/2025

I remember my grandfather telling me about this very tragic and untold history of our city

* Here we have a quite a detailed “aerial” image of Derry, used to illustrate key locations in the tragic, week long, communal conflict of June 1920, which left 20 dead. Many incidents occurred about Bishop St, Long Tower, Bridge St, St Columb’s College and Spencer Rd Cross St & Chapel Rd in the Waterside.

There are many features noted, including the destroyer on the Foyle, whose searchlights sought out snipers across the city’s night time skyline. This period was never spoken of in school history lessons.

Thanks to Joseph Keys for sharing this image.

20/04/2025

Absolutely love this!! ❤️

* This 1929 image reflects 2 public transport vehicles of the time. On left is a bus run by Catherwoods who were given a 20 year franchise in 1929 to run the City services. In the background is the Bryce & Weston shirt factory built 1921 on Strand Rd and one of the city’s later shirt factories. It was later Wilkinson’s factory and then Long’s supermarket.

Who recalls some of the interesting buses that have served the City in more recent decades? Do share in the comments! Thanks to Joseph Keys for sharing this image.