World War Two exhibition at Long Kesh

Hillsborough Old Guard and Aviation Society members at the Buccaneer.

THE World War Two exhibition organised by the Hillsborough Old Guard Local History Society and involving the Ulster Aviation Society at the former Long Kesh Airbase took place recently.

The exhibition depicted the work of Local people and those from the commonwealth who died on active service during World War Two and are buried in Eglantine Parish church Graveyard.

Local MP Jeffery Donaldson said: "I would like to congratulate the organisers who have put on an excellent exhibition that depicts

Hillsborough during the war years. "This compliments the permanent Display by the Ulster Aviation Society, who have a varied and interesting range of aeronautical artefacts including a number of aircraft with historical links to Northern Ireland.

"The large number of visitors testifies to the local interest in the history of Hillsborough and the connections with aviation at the former Long Kesh aerodrome.

"I commend both the Hillsborough Old Guard and the Ulster Aviation Society for this superb exhibition."

One lady came from Portadown for the day to visit the exhibition. She told the group she lived beside the airfield during the war and some of her family worked at the airfield both during the conflict and at a later time when Long Kesh was a prison.

Former Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure, Edwin Poots and his wife also attended the exhibition, along with Lisburn Mayor and Mayoress James and Margaret Tinsley, who also praised the quality of the exhibition and the work of the Aviation Society.

Edwin Poots MLA and Aviation Society members beside the Wessex helicopter.	The Brennan sisters from Hillsborough check out some ww2 artefacts.
The Lisburn fire engine.	Boys from Ballynahinch air cadets check out some ww2 guns.

Ulster Star
13/06/2008