Sam Gardiner (poet)
Samuel Trevor Gardiner (1936–2016) was a Northern Irish poet, writer and architect. Life and work He was born in Portadown, Armagh but lived most of his life in England, living in London through the 1970s and moving north to the Grimsby / North Lincolnshire area in the 1980s where he lived out the rest of his life. He first became well known in radical/literary circles as Trevor Gardiner, as part of Norman Hidden's Writers Workshop circle, where he was sub editor of ''New Poetry (magazine), New Poetry'' magazine and ghost-compiled Hidden's ''Over to You (book), Over to You'', a poetry anthology for students, for the English Speaking Board without formal credit, and whilst manager of the Poetry Bureau and later as editor of ''Poet's Yearbook''. Issues in his personal life saw him abandon his London life, and move initially to Cleethorpes. He worked as an architect through the 80s, writing creatively about historic architecture in this time. He came to national attention when he ...
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Portadown
Portadown () is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The town sits on the River Bann in the north of the county, about southwest of Belfast. It is in the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council area and had a population of about 22,000 at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census. For some purposes, Portadown is treated as part of the "Craigavon Urban Area", alongside Craigavon (planned town), Craigavon and Lurgan. Although Portadown can trace its origins to the early 17th century Plantation of Ulster, it was not until the Victorian era and the arrival of the railway that it became a major town. It earned the nickname "hub of the North" due to it being a major railway junction; where the Great Northern Railway (Ireland), Great Northern Railway's line diverged for Belfast, Dublin, Armagh and Derry. In the 19th and 20th centuries Portadown was also a major centre for the production of textiles (mainly Irish linen, linen). Portadown is the site of the long-ru ...
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