A local source tells me that this week (i.e. week beginning 12th October 2020), there was filming in Craigs Church and graveyard, in Cullybackey, for the top British TV series, Line of Duty....

I was very sorry to learn this morning of the death of the Reverend Noel Agnew.Reverend Noel Agnew He was the chaplain for the Motor Cycle Union of Ireland.  He was a well known, highly...

A few weeks ago, I cleaned up a couple of photos that mum had in one of her albums.  Below one of pictures, she had written in red ink, "Hopefield Hospital 1956."  I had never heard of this...

Here's a photo from the late 1960's.   After cleaning the image up a tad, mum's handwritten comment from below the original photograph in her scrapbook was re-inserted. On the left, Aunt May...

A Brief History of Cullybackey Methodist Church Cullybackey Old Methodist Church has a complex history. The church initially, way back in 1839, started out as a Presbyterian church. It was built by...

Here's a wonderful old poem, written in early 1926, by a woman from the Ballymena area. It should be noted that the local newspapers of the late 1800s and early 1900s often invited their readers to...