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Map of County Antrim
Beautifully hand-drawn and coloured, dating from around 1840
See this old map of County Antrim
Belfast memories
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Coffee |Bar Cowboys
After school - Belfast Royal Academy - a liitle gang of us would take the bus down to Royal Avenue and head for the Lombard restaurant in Lombard Street. It was a very comfortable, spacious place, founded by the Ulster Temperance Society and open evenings too, where you could sit as long as you liked, with waitress service, over a cup of tea. It'd be packed with school students in the mid-late afternoon.
Later we transferred our loyalties to Isibeal's coffee bar, down a narrow street opposite the City Hall. It was smaller and quieter there. Matthew and Joyce looked after us and let us sit for hours over that single cup of tea. Van ...read more here
Contributed by John McMillan
BELFAST-I.O.M. STEAMER,FENELLA 1897
HOLIDAY TO I.O.M. WITH MUM,DAD & ANN.
Contributed by MICHAEL WHEELWRIGHT
County Antrim memories
Silverhill Road
When I graduated from Paisley University, Scotland, in 1984, I moved to Castlederg for a period of about 8 months. It was a very special time in my life. I met so many really nice people, and the memories will live with me for the rest of my life.
One memory, which might make people laugh, was of one night when I had been visiting some friends in Glenpark, near the centre of the town. It was late in the evening and we had been watching the film "An American Werewolf in London" . When the film had finished at 11.30pm, I had to make my way through the town, over the bridge and then walk about a mile out ...read more here
A memory of Castlederg contributed by Robert Kyle
Stories from the past
My maternal grandfather - Hugh Duddy - was born in a farming community in the county. My mother would tell me stories of visiting relatives in two farms, Mulderg and Coulnaculp (spelling is probably very wrong). Her memories were full of colourful characters and wonderful summer days. At that time she would sail from "The Broomielaw" in Glasgow to Londonderry where she was met by a horse-drawn cart or she'd catch a bus to Claudy and wait at the post office to be met. A distant cousin was post mistress at that time.
My grandfather came to Glasgow around the turn of the century where he met and married a young woman from Montrose. They had six children, of whom my ...read more here
A memory of Claudy contributed by Linda Rankine