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Hen & Mens Shed

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Hen & Mens Shed MUVE has been fortunate to secure funding the Armed Forces Covenant Trust Fund to establish new arts and craft facilities. These facilities will be used for formal and informal crafting activities, such as woodturning, ceramic, flower arranging, sewing, ‘up cycling’, garden furniture, etc. We provide a choice so that there is […]

Social Events

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Social Events Another aspect of our work is providing social outlets for our members. These include events such as a Burns Night, an evening to the theatre and storytelling events. There is currently walking and fishing groups. As a transgenerational group we provide a range of activities for the children and young people. These range […]

Chatterbox Club

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Chatterbox Club We realise the importance of providing an outlet for those members that live alone and are socially isolated. This new service ‘the chatterbox club’ has a very simple purpose, come in and chat with like-minded victims and make new friendships or renew old friendships, and of course the kettle is always at the […]

Address

MUVE Project

34 Fairhill Road,

Cookstown,

Co Tyrone.

BT80 8AG

Contact

Email: tina@muve.org.uk

Phone: 028 867 63349

Socials

Muve is a registered Company limited by guarantee (NI618412) and is also registered with the N.I Charities Commission (NIC100714)

STANLEY ADAMS

Lance Corporal Service No. 24244436

14th April 1947 - 28th October 1976

Stanley was the only son of James and Elizabeth Adams of Limehill, Pomeroy. He had three sisters, Muriel, Eileen and Lorna. He attended Pomeroy primary School and Dungannon Secondary School.

In civilian life, he farmed on a part-time basis and was employed in a full-time capacity as a postman in the Pomeroy area. He was a quiet, hardworking and honest young man, who had plans to build a new bungalow before getting married. He greatly enjoyed the company of his nieces and nephews.

He played an active part in the community of Pomeroy Presbyterian Church, as a Sunday School teacher and as a member of the badminton club. He was a member of Pomeroy Flute Band, the Secretary of Pomeroy LOL 293 and a member of Pomeroy Black Preceptory 259.

His strong sense of loyalty and devotion to duty extended beyond his church and community, to the service of his country. He had served with the Ulster Special Constabulary (USC) between October 1964 and March 1970 and then joined the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) on 14th January 1971. He served as a part-time solider in ‘K’ Company at Killymeal in Dungannon, with the rank of Lance Corporal from 1st January 1972.

On the morning of 28th October 1976, whilst doing his postal round he had to deliver a letter to a remote farmhouse at Altmore, near Pomeroy. The letter was bogus, part of the IRA plan to lure him to the location, where terrorist gunmen were laying in wait. He was ambushed and shot dead. He was 29 years old.

Lance Corporal Adams is buried at Pomeroy Presbyterian Church and is commemorated on a plaque in the church and on a memorial stone in the graveyard.

This square was designed by his sister Eileen.

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JOHN HENRY (JACK) SCOTT

Reserve Constable

19th January 1930 - 22nd June 1979

Jack was born in Canada 19th January 1930, third in the family to Sam and Mabel. Jack had one brother Bobby and three sisters Lily, Anna and Elizabeth. His mum died in Canada when he was just 4 years old, the family returned to Fintona, County Tyrone.

Jack’s father remarried and together with his brother they moved to Ardboe, where they worked on their father’s farm.

Jack didn’t remain working on the farm, he developed a skill for driving HGV lorries and commenced work with Sinclair’s in Stewartstown and also W.J. Hagan in Kingsmills, until the Milk Marketing Board took over W.J. Hagan’s firm. He then continued his employment with them.

Romance blossomed when he met his lovely wife, wee Sarah Dallas and they married in 1955. They went on to have 9 children, Philip, Alvin, Jacqueline, Pamela, Robert, Kenneth, David, Alistair and Nigel. They resided at 1 Moneymore Road, Cookstown.

Jack was a member of the B Specials until they were disbanded and joined the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserves (RUCR) in 1970.

He enjoyed playing the accordion, so much so that he would have entertained in local orange halls ... like Ochill and Tamlaght. His payment for these events was the princely sum of £1. He also belonged to Tamlaght accordion band from Coagh and was a member of Tamlaght LOL 160.

While Jack was at his full-time job in the Milk Marketing Board on the 22nd June 1979, he was murdered by terrorists in Ardboe where he had lived as a teenager. His eldest child was 22 years old and the youngest just 7 years old.

His love for the accordion has been chosen for the memory quilt, with the names Jack and Sarah and all 9 siblings names lovingly stitched onto the bellows by his daughter Jacqueline and son-in-law Noel Glasgow.

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JAMES (JIM) GIBSON

Private Service Number: 24208559

Former member of the UDR

21st August 1932 - 2nd December 1982

Husband of the late Robina and father to Philip, Glenn (Late), Beth, Billy, Derek, Dougie, Sandra and Audrey.

Jim, a 50-year-old Protestant civilian, a widower with 7 children and a bus driver was a former member of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR). Mr. Gibson stopped his Ulsterbus to let children off at the Annaghmore crossroads when 2 masked men approached.

One of the gunmen entered the bus and opened fire. A 13-year-old girl was sitting in the front of the bus and said: “suddenly I heard shots. I saw Mr. Gibson. His head fell to 1 side and the bus was still moving because he had tried to drive on. The bus then went into the ditch. It was horrific”. Her 11-year-old brother said: “I was sitting in the 2nd seat from the back. I heard shots, about 7 or 8, and then 1 of the children in the front of the bus jumped up and told everyone to lie down and keep cool. A boy who was 14 managed to open the back emergency exit and we all crawled out”. A woman living nearby said: “I heard the crack-crack and I thought it was the bus backfiring. Then I looked out and he was slumped on the wheel. I was horrified. All the youngsters on the bus were in hysterics. I took 3 of them ... 2 boys and a wee girl into the house. They were in a bad state and they were all screaming”.

Mr. Gibson’s family said that his movements must have been watched because out of 29 weeks, he drove the bus only 1 week. Mr. Gibson was from Coagh but was living in Dungannon at the time.

Callously murdered on 2nd December 1982, whilst driving Catholic children home from school in Clonoe near Coalisland.

The tartan on our square is the ‘Gibson Tartan’

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EDWARD (NED) GIBSON

Private

Service Number: 24715186

11th July 1965 - 26th April 1988

Ned was born in Coagh, County Tyrone 11th July 1965, the youngest son of Stewart and Betty. He had two brothers Evans and John also two sisters Lyn and Alison. Alison died at the age of 18 as the result of a car accident.

Ned’s education was spent in Tamlaght Primary School, Cookstown High School, and Omagh Training Centre.

At 16 years of age Ned met Wendy from Omagh when they were at a dance. The 50cc motorbike represented on this quilt square signifies his mode of travel while courting Wendy. Of course a nickname was given as it was only a 50cc, it was referred to as Ned on his flying 5-0 as it would have taken him 2 hours to get from Omagh to Coagh and of course there would have been a few stops for a smoke break during the journey.

Ned and Wendy were married on the 14th April 1984 in Edenderry Presbyterian Church Omagh with their reception in Hanover House, Coagh which his Uncle Bryson owned at the time. The significance of the roses on the quilt is for their daughter Marlene who was born in March 1985. On this occasion the nurses teased Wendy about the young man bringing 4 red roses behind his back and 3 meant I love you…..Wendy’s reply was that 4 meant I love you forever.

The collerette represents the orange lodge Tamlaght LOL 160, of which Ned was a member following in his father and brothers footsteps.

As like any other young couple they struggled with family life, there was tough times financially as neither of them had jobs. In his short life he had a variety of jobs, from joinery, bacon factory, bar, until finally he was successful in employment with Cookstown Council.

In 1987 things improved and they decided to buy a house via co-ownership and then Ned made the decision to join the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) part time. Ned was so proud when he brought home his kit bag, Wendy never got to see him in his uniform as 8 weeks after he joined 26th April 1988 the Provisional IRA (PIRA) terrorists murdered Ned while he was at his full time job in the council, collecting bins at 15 Aneeter Road, Coagh. He was 22 years of age.

Our small family has never been the same but has survived despite the PIRA terrorists trying to destroy us. We will never get over the loss of Ned, husband, father, son, brother, friend but we have learnt to live with it and remember him every day.

God has been kind enough to bless us with Mia, born 13-4-2015 a granddaughter for Ned and Wendy. Mia knows all about her granda Ned and how he was murdered

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LESLIE DALLAS

Private

Service Number: 24275823

Former member of the UDR

4th June 1950 - 7th March 1989

Leslie was born at Urbal lane, Coagh the son of James and Eleanor Dallas. He had 3 sisters and 4 brothers. He was educated at Coagh Primary and Cookstown Secondary School. On leaving school he trained as a car salesman, first with Sam Bell Motors, Cookstown and then with Joe Reid Car Sales, Portglenone before he started his own business Dallas Motors, Main Street, Coagh. He married Hazel Sommerville from Newmills and they had 2 children Elaine and Alan.

Leslie enjoyed playing football and snooker, but his main love was motor sport. He had success in Auto test events, rallies and hill climbs, and then took up Hot Rod Racing. He excelled in this sport with many wins including World of Wheels Grand Prix at Newtonabbot, the UK and Scottish Open Championship in Cowdenbeath, national Hot Rods Association Championship at Ipswich. This success culminated in his winning the European Championship in 1986. The family enjoyed travelling with him to these events.

He enlisted with the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) on 26th January 1972 and served in ‘G’ Company in Cookstown. He resigned later that year. On 7th March 1989 Leslie and Hazel had just returned from Cookstown and stopped at the garage to wait for the children arriving on the school buses. As they were chatting to two friends Ernie Rankin and Austin Nelson a car approached from the Urbal Road a gun man got out and sprayed Leslie’s car and garage with more than 50 rounds of automatic fire. Hazel was lucky to survive but the three men died at the scene. Minutes later the school buses arrived carrying Leslie’s children, Elaine and Alan, they both had to witness the horrific scene of their father’s murder.

Leslie was buried at Coagh Presbyterian Church and is commemorated in the church and in Coagh Orange Hall.

This square was designed by his wife Hazel.

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