IN PICTURES: Derry was a sports mad city in the 1960s

1961... The Corn na nOg football team (1960-61) from the Christian Brothers' Technical School, Brow of the Hill. Front, from left, are M. Gormley, J. Clarke, W. Gallagher, T. Logue, M. Duddy, M. Doherty and LV Gallagher. Centre - P. Doherty, J. Nash, EV Doherty, D. Kilkie, J. Meehan, L. Mullan, and G. Canning. At back are J. McCaul, J. Hutton, S. McColgan, G. Hutton, L. Bradley and C. Deeney.

As with its best-selling predecessors, the new book - which is now available in shops, newsagents and online - is jam-packed with images that will appeal to those who love Derry and its past.

The book, a joint initiative from the ‘Derry Journal’ and Guildhall Press, is filled with hundreds of beautifully reproduced black and white photographs of a city and its people that looks hauntingly familiar, but one that many of us have never seen before.

In the book, you come face to face with people from the past and wonder where they came from, where they have gone and what their story is.

1962... The junior netball team from the Convent of Mercy, Thornhill, which reached the final of the Ulster Championships. From left, Carmel O'Hagan, Anne O'Leary, Celine Devine, Kathleen McMillan, Mrs Vera O'Hagan (games mistress), Edna Lynch, Pat Owens, Maureen Harley, Catherine O'Donnell.

All aspects of life are featured - children at school; days out at the seaside; local theatrical productions; sporting fixtures; people just going about their everyday lives and, of course, the outbreak of the ‘Troubles’.

The images featured on these two pages are just a snapshot of the vast array of photographs from the 1960s that are available from the ‘Derry Journal’ archives.