Chance meeting sees Leslie return to Poyntzpass to recreate picture of police station closure almost 60 years on

Chance meeting sees Leslie return to Poyntzpass to recreate picture of police station closure almost 60 years on

Leslie Busby was only a young and wet-behind-the-ears police constable when he last set foot in Poyntzpass. But it was a chance encounter on a golf course – far back in time and beyond County Armagh – that led to his return this week. It was at the invitation of Hugh Daly, honorary secretary of Poyntzpass and District Local History Society, that Leslie came back. And he did so to recreate a photograph which captured a key moment in the village’s…