Trade Secrets

David Turner – This site has been home to an ice-cream parlour, a café and an Indian resturant. Shenanigans was also started and run by an Indian […]

Eimeir Friers – The space which mc laughlin’s Bakery occupies today was previously a drapery. I wanted to make an interactive box which let the viewer move […]

Elaine Taylor – Penny chew banking. The irony of a savings bank becoming a sweetshop is expressed in this sculpture. The fact that due to our current […]

Elaine Taylor – The exterior and interior of this box is modelled on an old vault representing the bank which once stood in this location. Viewers are […]

Avril McCabe & Ryan Orr – Warke’s Deli stands on the site of the Carrig-na-Cule Hotel which was built c.1881, full of special memories of family celebrations. […]

Eimear Friers – In the Trade Secrets memory book I noticed several people had written about a cinema that was was once joined to Roughan’s, (family business […]

Laura Nelson – With this piece I wanted to draw on the history of the Italian Morelli family, in Porstewart since 1911, by depicting their rotunda designed […]

The following Portstewart businesses participated in the project. Click on any of their names to explore their stories. Business What’s there now What it used to […]

Laura Nelson – Heart & Home sits on a site in Captain Street which is full of Coleraine history. I wanted to try and include all these […]

Eimear Friers – I wanted to make a box which celebrated the interesting history of this site, a burial ground from 1244-1530 when it was developed into […]

Laura Nelson – Located in the old Coleraine Customs House, this is the surviving twin of two buildings in the town, the other used to be on […]

Eimear Friers – The unit which bob & bert’s Coleraine now occupies was once a leather cutters. When I hear “leather”, leather jackets immediately come to mind […]