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, and was difficult to do much with. It still needs much more work. But then earlier this year, I encountered a tiny photo of his son, also called Joseph, and after reading of his very interesting...
UPDATE – Apologies. Still a little behind in my emails. When time permits, I am working currently on several very interesting articles. Among them are areas and names, such as McKeown, Irwin, Gilmore, Orr, Armstrong 1850s letter from Iowa, the Boer War Letter to a mother at Maghera Bank House, 1899 Cinematograph Entertainment at Tobermore, the Greenlough Charity Sermon, the Fighting...
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And...
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. Yeats 1899 short poem, Aedh (He) Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, is a favourite of many.