Portrush, Co Antrim, N Ireland - Valentines mutiview 1970s postcard

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Portrush, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland - multiview - Wishing Arch / Gardens and Arcadia / East Bay
• Publisher:  Valentines
• Postally used:  no - but has stamp from a former picture library
• Stamp:  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Portrush (from Irish: Port Rois, meaning ""promontory port"")^[2] is a small seaside resort town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, on the County Londonderry border. The main part of the old town, including the railway station as well as most hotels, restaurants and bars, is built on a mile–long peninsula, Ramore Head, pointing north-northwest. It had a population of 6,372 people as measured by the 2001 Census. In the off-season, Portrush is a dormitory town for the nearby campus of the University of Ulster at Coleraine. It neighbours the resort of Portstewart.

The town is well known for its three sandy beaches, the West Strand, East Strand and White Rocks, as well as the Royal Portrush Golf Club, the only golf club outside of mainland Great Britain which has hosted the Open Championship.

It was the base for the Katie Hannan (this life boat was damaged in 2008, after running aground during a rescue at Rathlin Island, Now based as a training boat for the RNLI), a Severn class lifeboat and Ken and Mary, a D–class inshore lifeboat of the RNLI. Lifeboats have operated out of Portrush Harbour since 1860.

Portrush is in the East Londonderry constituency for the UK Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly.

number of flint tools found during the late nineteenth century show that the site of Portrush was occupied during the ""Larnian"" (late Irish Mesolithic) period;^[3] recent estimates date this to around 4000 BC.^[4]

The site of Portrush, with its excellent natural defences, probably became a permanent settlement around the twelfth or thirteenth century. A church is known to have existed on Ramore Head at this time, but no part of it now survives. From the records of the papal taxation of 1306, the Portrush church - and by extension the village - appears to have been reasonably wealthy. The promontory also held two castles, at varying periods. The first of these, Caisleán an Teenie, is believed to have been at the tip of Ramore Head, and probably destroyed in the late sixteenth century; the other, Portrush Castle, may have been built around the time of the Plantation of Ulster in the early seventeenth. Nothing survives of either castle.^[5]

Following the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in the mid-seventeenth century, Portrush became a small fishing town. It grew heavily in the nineteenth century as a tourist destination, following the opening of the Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Portrush Junction Railway in 1855, and by the turn of the twentieth century had become one of the major resort towns of Ireland, with a number of large hotels and boarding houses including the prominent Northern Counties Hotel. As well as the town's beaches and the Royal Portrush Golf Club (opened 1888), the nearby Giant's Causeway was a popular tourist destination, with the Giant's Causeway Tramway - at the time, one of the world's longest electrified railways - built in 1893 to cater to travellers coming from Portrush.

The town's fortunes peaked in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and declined after the Second World War with the growth of foreign travel. It escaped any involvement in The Troubles until 6 August 1976, when a series of bombings of properties burned out and destroyed several buildings, though with no loss of life.^[6] In a second attack in April 1987, two officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) were shot and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army while on foot patrol on Main Street.^[7]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=northern ireland

county/ country=antrim

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period=1945 - present

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