Anderson and McAuley Department Store

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Launched in 2000, Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive spans from 1897 to the present day and currently contains an ever-expanding catalogue of 13,000 items. It comprises material from a variety of depositors including feature films, sport, documentaries, animation, amateur footage, light entertainment, and a significant proportion of broadcast material from the UTV Archive.

Anderson and McAuley Department Store (Good Evening Ulster)

Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive
Belfast
18 Sep 1986
Sound

A century and a quartrer of a Belfast institution.

Kate Smith reports for Good Evening Ulster on Anderson and McAuley, one of the old landmarks of the retailing centre of Belfast. The famous department store situated between Donegall Place and Royal Avenue was a popular shopping destination for many generations.

To mark its 125th anniversary, the Anderson family are putting on a display of artefacts connected to its history. Here, one family member discusses the Andersons' association with the store and shares old photographs of the original building from the 19th century. There is also a fashion parade of the kind of dresses which the store would have sold when it first opened.

Good Evening Ulster was the weekday tea-time local news round-up for Ulster Television throughout much of the 1980s and helped to launch the careers of household names such as Gloria Hunniford and Eamonn Holmes.

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