Walking around Coleraine

Sale Yards

The Sale yards were used for weekly stock sales. Local farmers often walked their stock in to town from several kilometres away. Janet Stanton can remember helping drove sheep and cattle, riding her pony, all the way in from Brit Brit. Eventually only the one yard remained in use, at the Robertson Street site, near the Council Depot, and the sales diminished to once a year, usually soon after Christmas. Howard Templeton and Malcolm Robertson, and others living close to Coleraine, still walked their sheep in for this sale, until about 1990. When the Sale yards finally ceased operation, the Committee of Management donated all their residual funds to the Appeal to upgrade the Tennis and Netball courts in Turnbull Street.
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The Sale yards were used for weekly stock sales. Local farmers often walked their stock in to town from several kilometres away. Janet Stanton can remember helping drove sheep and cattle, riding her pony, all the way in from Brit Brit. Eventually only the one yard remained in use, at the Robertson Street site, near the Council Depot, and the sales diminished to once a year, usually soon after Christmas. Howard Templeton and Malcolm Robertson, and others living close to Col-rain, still walked their sheep in for this sale, until about 1990. When the Sale yards finally ceased operation, the Committee of Management donated all their residual funds to the Appeal to upgrade the Tennis and Netball courts in Turnbull Street.