Sandy Gallery

Rams Island from Sandy Bay, Lough Neagh

Ram's Island from Sandy Bay, Lough Neagh - a view out to the island in the distance, in the foreground a boat with a lot of people onboard and on the shore a girl and child in arms. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Sandy Bay, L. Neagh). Date: circa early 1900s

© National Museums NI / Mary Evans

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County Asylum, Newport, Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight County Lunatic Asylum was opened in 1896 at Sandy Lane, Newport, Isle of Wight. It later became the Isle of Wight County Mental Hospital and then Whitecroft Hospital

© Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection

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Those Superstitions by Bairnsfather

Those Superstitions Private Sandy McNab cheers the assembly by pointing out (with the aid of his pocket almanac) that it is Friday the 13th and that their number is one too many A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1916

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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