Faces at Allams, Colgans and Robsons

By
Robert Irwin
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ALLAMS FOUR RI Farm
left: A sales invoice for sheep sold at Allams mart.

With a selection of photographs and old cuttings, Kenneth Clarke rounds off his extensive look-back at Belfast’s marts of the past

ABOVE: Advertisements for both Allams and Colgans marts, published in February 1971.
left: Selling store pigs in Allams’ Oxford St mart in february 1962 when pig sales were held every Friday.
Faces at Allams, Colgans and Robsons
left: Admiring a sow and litter at the Allams’ Oxford St. mart in June 1962. Pig sales were held every Friday.
Faces at Allams, Colgans and Robsons
ABOVE: An invoice for a roan cow sold at Allams mart in December 1940.
Faces at Allams, Colgans and Robsons
ABOVE: Ned Green, Stewartstown House, Dunmurry, receiving the 1936 Allams Show & Sale Cup for Best Dairy Cow, pictured with son Cecil.
Faces at Allams, Colgans and Robsons
above: A Robson’s advertisement from ‘Bassett’s County Antrim’ in 1888.

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