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Notable works by Desmond Rainey

Desmond Rainey is a retired civil servant, having worked in the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for over 40 years. He is an elder in 2nd Comber Presbyterian Church, and has in the past sung in the church choir, participated in amateur dramatics, and played badminton and tennis. He has always been fascinated by history and was a founder member of Comber Historical Society.

Desmond is also an avid collector of old postcards, photographs of Comber and music of the 1960s and is co-author of A Taste of Old Comber and A Chronicle of Comber 1873-1912: The Town of Thomas Andrews, Shipbuilder.