Category: People & Places

At the end of last year, I was trying to enhance an old photo of Joseph Bamford's store, at the Arcade, in Kilrea.  The photograph was taken over a hundred years ago.  It was of very poor quality,...

Tragedy ensues when a North Antrim cobbler is told of a 5 thousand pounds American legacy. On the 24th February 1932, in the beautiful little coastal village of Glenarm in County Antrim, tragedy...

Apologies, I have not been posting much in recent months. I have not been writing anything at all. But the creativity is still there, and I have been working in the evenings, on enhancing a lot of...

Several hours last Saturday were spent, rather than writing up a weekend post, brushing out the flood in my house.  I had turned on the bath and forgotten about it.  I stepped off the sofa, to...

Last year, I covered a story, from the early summer of 1909, which involved two folk from Belfast going on a walk around Portglenone. In the article, and in the follow-up comments, on that story,...

I trust that you are keeping well. Thank you for the emails and the continued support.  I am always behind in communications, so do not fret (two weeks behind currently). There are lots of...