ANTRIM ARMS HOTEL
This is the Antrim Arms Hotel in High Street which was owned by Fawcett's looking very smart having just had a face lift in 1905.
No traffic problems here and at Barr's shop on the right we have two ladies, one with a fur collar having a leisurely chat.

ANTRIM ARMS HOTEL
Standing in High Street in 1929 we have Robert Fawcett with the Tour bus drivers all set to take his guests out around the North & South of Ireland.
In the background you can just see the Court House.

ANTRIM ARMS HOTEL
Now I know you're going to say this isn't the Antrim Arms Hotel, well it's the gardens which belonged to the hotel which were behind the hotel. Remember there was no Castle Centre then in 1930 and that's how far the gardens went. In the background you can see some of the guests and the two men with the unknown guests in the foreground are on the left Robert Fawcett of the Antrim Arms Hotel and the other man was Gerry Patton. Gerry as you can guess was the Hotel's Tour Guide and Entertainer organiser. They had tours North and South six days a week and entertainment was provided for the guests at these included dances at which the local lads would flock to. A lot of the guests were ladies who came over from the Lancashire mills for their holidays here in Antrim. Yes, Antrim was more hip hop and lots to see then, then it is now. On the day that there were no tours they used to take the guests down to the Lough Shore and this was the that day Bob Fawcett and his chums waited for every week. That's because they would use Hannon and Wallce's fishing boats to row the guests up and down the river for sixpence, that's about 2 1/2 p today.

ANTRIM CADETS
Here we have 1st Antrim Cadets getting their photograph in Antrim Castle Grounds in 1957.
Back row Ann Coulter, Cynthia Fry, Miss McCarr, Miss Clarke, Mrs Telford, Elizabeth Witherspoon, Eileen McCloskey, Joan Cummings and Jean Barnes.
Front row has Kathleen Lynn, Unknown, Unknown, Norma Coulter, Mary Allen, Pat Cummings and Miss Brownlees.
To give you an idea of where the photo was taken the wall behind them has gone except for a small section containing the arch which you can just see
between Elizabeth Witherspoon and Eileen McCloskey,