Blair's Printers, Strabane
The bookseller, stationer and printer, R J Blair, opened this printing establishment in the late 1870s.  It stood in Strabane, across the street from Gray’s printing shop.  By 1892, R J Blair’s boasted a wide variety of retail interests. As well as operating as a printer, st...

Hill's Chemist, Strabane
Established in Castle Street, Strabane between 1870 and 1885, the business of J Hill and Co. was listed under “Apothecaries and Druggists” and continued to operate as a chemist shop until the late 1980's. As well as the shopfront, the shop’s original fittings and furnishings wer...

Pawn Shop, Glenarm
The Ulster American Folk Park’s pawnbroker shopfront came from Toberwine Street, Glenarm, County Antrim. This attractive little shopfront was typical of small provincial shops in Ulster in the late 1800s. The style is repeated time after time in town scenes captured by the Lawrence photogra...

Saddler's, Co Cavan
This original shopfront was acquired from Stonewall between Bailieboro and Virginia, near the Cavan-Longford border in south county Cavan. It had been run as a general store by the Weir family from 1930. Before that it was a grocery store run by a Mrs Cruickshank (nee Gray) of Lisball, Bailieboro...

Reilly's Pub, Newtownbutler
This old grocery/tavern from Main Street, Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh, was built in 1820 by John Reilly, a stonemason from nearby Ballyconnell in County Cavan.  John Reilly also built the Lanesborough Arms Hotel adjoining the tavern, and Newtownbutler’s courthouse and markethouse. ...

O'Doherty's Shop, City of Derry
Once a famous landmark in Derry, these Bishop Street premises were opened in 1869 as a grocery and public house.  Although known for a period as the ‘China Tea Shop’, the premises were recognised by the local population simply as ‘WG’s’, after the owner, WG O&rs...

Reynold's Ropeworks, Dungannon
During the 1830s and 1840s, Richard Murray had a rope and twine making business in Irish Street, Dungannon. It was difficult to find premises for this activity, because it required a weatherproof building with one open side and at least one hundred yards of open ground along which the lengthening...

Doctor's Surgery, Enniskillen
The original Georgian doorway and fanlight of this building came from Darling Street, Enniskillen.  In the 1840s, this was the Harley Street of Enniskillen, where nine of the town’s eleven practicing doctors and surgeons were located. It has the appearance of a typical late Georgian p...

Murray's Shop , Moy, Co Tyrone
In 1880, William Murray was listed in a trades directory as a woollen draper and grocer in Moy. By the time of the 1901 Census, he was living in Killyman Street with his wife Louisa and their children. The substantial house was able to accommodate William, Louisa, their eight children, a Methodis...