•  That the first two vessels to use the Portadown / Newry navigation passed through Moneypenny's lock laden with coal for Dublin in 1742 and that the last vessel to use the canal was a pleasure yacht which travelled south from Portadown in 1939.

•  Trains first ran into Lurgan on 18 th November 1841 however it was not until the 12 th September of the following year that Portadown was introduced to the benefits of rail.

•  The first industry in Portadown to be mentioned was the manufacture of cider in 1682. In fact the owner was commissioned to provide cider for William's army on their way to the Boyne.

•  The first meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) to take place in Ireland was in Lurgan in 1654.