HONEYMOON 1834
Seen here posing for a photograph at a make believe bar in the Isle of Man in August 1964.
We have Kate and John McKenna on their Honeymoon.

NORMAN HANNAN 2102
It's 1965 and safely strapped into his pram is Norman Hannan who is smelling a Daisy.

HANNAN BROTHERS 2103
It's all smiles for Gary and Norman Hannan way back in February 1966.

HIGH STREET 2286
This is the beginning of High Street in the 80's but also the end of the wool shop. The building was torn down to make the entrance into Riverside wider.

HIGH STREET 2290
Now who remembers the traffic lights in Antrim? Well this photograph was taken in the 80's and remember back then it was a through road. Across the road there was McCabe's garage, if they had only thought they could have had the first drive by butchers in the world!

HIGH STREET 2292
In this 1980's photograph of High Street in the distance is a familar landmark our Markethouse.
On the right is Enketell's which used to be the Lough Neagh Hotel. On down at the traffic lights is McCabes garage , further down is Antrim Wine market and finally the Trustees Savings bank which in later years moved up to Enketell's when it was demolished and is now the First Trust bank.

THE HUDSON SHOWBAND 2328
Here we have locally The Hudson Showband back in 1965 posing for a publicity photograph. This was then made into a card photo to be handed out at all the dances they performed at to boost their popularity, not that they needed it. As a showband they would travel far and wide to play not only their own music but also all the top hits of that era. Remember back then showbands were what you would call a mobile showband and they had to learn all the latest songs to bring in the crowds. At the back on the left we have Angus Moore who played a mighty mean trombone and Winston McKelvey on Lead guitar and vocals. In the middle row is Jackie Wright, he played Tenor Sax, along with Joe Hamilton on Rhythm guitar and vocals. Kneeling are Norman Craig the drummer, on bass guitar was Jim Lockhart and with the bouffant hairstyle is Sandra Hudson vocalist. Finally lying on the ground we have Kenny Sparks who played the trumpet.

JUST FRIENDS 2698
Having just got off his bike Dennis Leitch stood in the back garden with Della Heath to have their photograph taken.

LAWRENCE HUTCHINS 2700
Seen here relaxing at home on a Sunday back in 1965 is Lawrence Hutchins wearing his Chelsea boots while reading about Biggs on the run from prison

CAUGHT IN THE ACT 2701
It's the weekend and here in the Chimney Corner F.C. Social Club in the 70's and caught in the act with a surprised look on his face is Lawrence Hutchins. Lawrence protested "That the pint was for one of his mates" but the looks on the faces of Tommy Coulter and Paddy Dumigan tell a different story!

FOOTBALL MAD 2704
Down at Riverside in the 70's and next to the Chimney Corner football pitch we have two football mad fans. Just getting ready to head of the Windsor Park to see their team playing are Lawrence Hutchins and James Harkness.

HOLYWELL HOSPITAL 2705
These are the people you don't see but need them, it's some of the hard working kitchen staff at Holywell Hospital in the 1960's. Having just finished a batch of bread rolls and scones for the patients and staff, these three are having a well earned break and smiling at the camera.They are Molly Beresford, Nellie Thompson and finally jolly Tommy Baird.

HOLYWELL HOSPITAL 2193
Here we are inside Holywell Hospital in the 60's seeing the nurses getting their photo taken for passing their exams. Only the front row are known and from the left we have Rose O'Hagan, Annie Duffin and Elizabeth Brown.

HIGH STREET 191
Taken in 1960's this photograph was taken from the top of the motte in the Castle gardens and before the new Dublin road was built. In the foreground you can see the walled gardens but sadly growing wild.

HIGH STREET 701
Late evening in High Street in 1929 and 6 years before the roads were tarmaced. To the right you can see Hall's Hotel, The Massereene Arms Hotel and across the road the Antrim Arms Hotel. the postcard is stamped 2nd August 1930.
To Mr. Sharp, 37, Sea Farm Road, Kirrotall, Leeds England. and reads Massereene Arms Hotel Antrim. Landed here (Ireland) at about 11 o'clock,
after nearly 8 hours on the sea. We have come in a drizzly day, but had a good sail, hardly knew the boat was moving at all.
We had an ordinary English Breakfast in Belfast. We are now in this road. Beal.

HIGH STREET 188
This is High Street Presbyterian Church and next to it the house which had two shops. One was Johnny McMaster;s Barber shop and the other one was Honeyford's wool shop.It was pulled down to widen the road into Riverside. Then with its towering steeple is All Saints' Parish Church. Date is unknown.

HIGH STREET 953
Just shows you how much traffic there was in High Street 1928 when two men can stand and have a yard in the middle of the road. The car at Joe Barr's garage is a Herbie Austin, I wonder how much petrol was then? The butcher standing outside his shop is Mr. Sloan and on the other side of the garage was a Drapers which also sold newspapers and was owned by Molly Wilson who went on to marry Bob Fleming. On down is the Antrim Arms Hotel and Lough Neagh Hotel. Across the road you have Massereene Hotel and Hall's Hotel and in the centre as always the Court House.

HIGH STREET 855
High Street in the afternoon of 1949 and the shops are busy. On the right one lady heads towards Church Street with her daughter at her side who is clutching tightly under each arm her Teddy and Doll. Behind them the first three shops are owned by John Kirk. Next is a Drapers, then skip two and we have McIlwaine's Hairdressers and next to it a Doctors Surgery. Then further down the road is a tractor parked and behind it is a large lorry delivering goods to the shops. In the foreground on the left parked is an armed services truck, perhaps the driver's doing some shopping too.

HIGH STREET 697
This elevated view of High Street was actually taken from the cupola at the top of the Court House, and the photographer captured the image some time before 1897. The clue lies in the row of buildings to the right of the frame - and, more, particularly, the conspicuous absence of Hall's Hotel which was built three years before the end of the 19th century. You can make out, however, the smaller Massereene Arms Hotel. The shop on the corner of High Street and Market Square sold fancy goods and was owned by W Lowery. They were also agents for Provincial Fire and Life Insurance Company, and also the African, Australian and New Zealand Shipping Companies. On close examination of the shop window to the left, you can make out posters
advertising trips to Boston and New York - though this would have been well out of reach of most turn of the century people.

HALL'S HOTEL 2438
Studying the bookings in Hall's Hotel are Mrs. Wilson the proprietor and Maureen Gaynor the receptionist.
Now if you look behind Maureen you will see what a lot of you practiced on at the 'Tec', a typewriter.
No spell check, no erasing mistakes on a screen if you did make one you had to start all over again!

HIGH STREET 693
High Street in the year 1920, for once the street is empty perhaps it's a Sunday. At the archway is Fleming's the garage in at the back, on up is T.Boston and I.Bones Bros Shop and then the Court House.

HOLYWELL HOSPITAL 2440
Standing on the steps at Holywell Hospital having their photograph taken by a colleague are Joseph Gaynor and James Neeson who were nurses in the Hospital.

HIGH STREET 694
It's early morning in High Street in the 1920's, you can see a young man standing at the back of his milk cart full of milk churns to deliver. Behind him is a motorbike and sidecar and then Lawor's the Drapers shop. Next is the Belfast Savings Bank and parked outside is a Bread cart delivering the fresh bread. The name on the cart has the letters B- - - es Bakery. Further up is the Massereene Arms Hotel, Hall's Hotel and the Barbican Gate. Across the road is the Courthouse and coming down the road we have a boy on his bike with a little girl on the bar. The round sign on the building tells you that it is the Antrim Arms Hotel.

HOLYWELL HOSPITAL 2468
This is in Holywell hospital in the 1970's and the two men on the right are not patients but hospital staff also.
On the left isLawrence Hutchins, Frank Keown and Dick Clark.

HIGH STREET 854
It's quarter past eight in the morning of 1908 and High Street already has the early birds out and about. On the left is J.Nutt's shop and on down a dog is patiently waiting at the door to get in and the Antrim Arms Hotel has a few men standing outside it posing for the camera. Beyond that is a pony and jaunting car outside a building with a thatched roof. Can you think what it must have been like to cross the road after a downpour of rain.

HOLYWELL REC FOOTBALL TEAM 2595
It's 1955 and it is no wonder these lads who make up Holywell Rec. Football team are smiling for they have won the Mackie Cup!
At the back, left, are H Taggart, R McFarland, K McKittrick, T Tweedie, S McKeown, Unknown and Unknown.
Seated are J McGaw, B Tweedie, B Kinnan, R Steele, S Quinn, B Fullerton and T Clarke.
All worked at Holywell Hospital, Jimmy McGaw worked in the Kitchen, Tommy Tweedie Upholster, Billy Tweedie Stores and the rest were Nurses. Sent in by Carson Barr

HOLYWELL HOSPITAL 2439
Here standing in the gardens at Holywell Hospital back in 1921 we have Susan Haslam who was a nurse. Susan went on to marry Tom Fleming who owned Flemming's Butcher shop in Market Square.

HIGH STREET 007
The roads are still not macadamized so it's before 1935. The black squares to the left along the side of the road is where the rubbish on the road has been swept into piles with a yard brush to be lifted later by a horse and cart. The tyres on the car in the foreground are solid giving a bumpy ride. Over to the right are Hall's Hotel and Massereene Arms Hotel.

HIGH STREET 011
To the left of the photograph is Peter Conway's general store. He sold mostly clothing but if he thought there was a ready market for an item Peter would have it in his shop. Some of the advertisements outside his shop show that he sold Lyons Tea, Pastry, Minerals and Players cigarettes. Looking further up the street is a little old lady in black, bent over walking with the aid of a stick.In between the car and the coach you can see a man with a lady who looks class and he is dressed all in a light grey suit with a top hat. In the centre of the road are two ladies, one in dark clothing carrying a suitcase, could they be booking into one of the hotels? To the far right is a horse and cart and at the back of the cart you can see the owner selling some of his goods to the lady next to him. Date is unknown.

HIGH STREET 550
This is, of course, another wonderful time capsule caught on camera in 1918 of High Street in Antrim. To the left is Anderson's shop, followed by a hardware store, the Lough Neagh Hotel, McKeown's sweet shop and Sloane's, the butchers. On the right hand side of the street you can see Hall's Hotel, an early motor garage, James McNally's Hotel (which later would become the Massereene Hotel), The Castle an ice-cream parlour, a home bakery and the Belfast Savings Bank. Next is Mrs Simpson's shop, which sold stationary, 'fancy goods', books and newspapers; John Orton's and , last but not least, Mayberry's boot merchants. Just beneath the lamp in the foreground you can just make out a man smoking a pipe and leading a young girl across the road by the hand - though going by the carefree posing of the other boys, traffic was not a problem 87 years ago! The little in white is carrying a basket, so perhaps she and her friends were off to do some shopping for her mum.

HIGH STREET 008
It must have been great weather back then because out of the seven cars in the picture only two have a solid roof, even the tour bus is opened topped. It is parked outside the Antrim Arms Hotel and just up from it is a garage. Date is unknown.

HIGH STREET 700
In this photograph to the left is Orr School on the right is McCabe's shoe shop, then Billy's cafe and the Ulster Bar at the corner of Railway Street. The Hillman Imp car next to the barrier was green, because the owner was the photographer Jackie Peacocke. The year is unknown.

HIGH STREET 954
We often think of traffic congestion as a uniquely modern phenomenon, but this vintage picture in 1970 certainly suggests otherwise! This clearly illustrates that Antrim was once a very busy little town indeed and just look at the number of shoppers on either side of the street. This stretch of road was pedestrianised a decade ago, and some traders suggested the move coincided with a marked downturn in trade in and around Market Square.

HIGH STREET 852
As the sun is slowly coming up on High Street in 1940 it is still early morning and only a few shops are open. On the right is a grocer's W. & ?, then Isaac Unal, who sold Carpets, Pictures and all types of Household furniture and next we have The Northern Bank. Beside the bank was Josie's Sweet Shop with sweets to numerous to mention, then Sloans pub and Sloans butcher's shop with the canopy.

HIGH STREET 698
Here you can see The Antrim Wine Market, Trustee Savings Bank, Lee's the Chemist, a Barbers, Gulliver's Travels, Newsagents, A.Bloggs, next shop unknown, the Ulster Bar and Billy's Fish & Chip shop. The year is unknown.

HIGH STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 866
This is some of the committie, Stallholders and Helpers very pleased with themselves having raised a lot of money at the Auxiliary Christmas Fair in December 1938 in connection with High Street Presbyterain Church. In the back row in the centre we have the Rev Mitchell and also Ellie Brown, the rest are unknown.

HIGH STREET 853
It is 1948 and High Street is slowly seeing more cars than horses as more tourists come in their own cars mostly Fords.They stay either at Hall's Hotel or next door at the Massereene Arms Hotel with Murphy's bar below it. On down the road you can see the U.T.A. green buses and we used to call this one a single, short for single Decker and in the distance the towering spire of All Saints' Parish Church.

TWINS 2571
Proud parents Nessie and William Harkness have just returned home in Killead after having their twins baptized on the 4th July 1965.
Now the twins names are from the left Francis and Wilma or is it Wilma and Francis for they are identical twins.
The bonny babies as they were back then are still the same only now they are Bonny Babes!

HIGH STREET 1032
High Street, July 1958 and outside Franklin Young's old Garage we have in the centre apprentice Raymond Lynn. Leaning against the petrol pump, yes it is a petrol pump is Sue Thompson who worked in the garage office and left in June 1961. To get petrol into your car you had to turn the large handle Sue is holding on to and the gauge would then move up telling you how much petrol you got. The man leaning against his Ford Anglia is unknown and behind him was the dry cleaners Aristocratic where a bag of washing cost 2 shillings!

HIGH STREET 014
This photograph was taken in 1924. If you look to your left behind the man and woman on the pavement that is the start of Bridge street and if you look closely you will see that the road is still cobbled. To your right is the garage which was owned by Franklin Young, next is a Stationary & Confectionary shop owned by A.E. Ba?r, next Stephen Sloan's pub then Antrim Arms Hotel, you also had Mrs Scott's Tea Rooms of which Lady cyclists were especially catered for and further up Lough Neagh Hotel and then Anderson's.

HIGH STREET 190
Not a car in sight and look at the street lighting Gas! Over to your right you have the Massereene Arms, Hall's and Adair's Hotels. Date is unknown.

HIGH STREET 013
To your right you can see three of the five Hotels that were in Antrim, Adair's Temperance Arms Hotel, Hall's Hotel and the Massereene Arms Hotel. Next to them is a hardware-grocers shop and on the corner of Bridge street is the Cobblers' shop. Date is Unknown.

HALLS HOTEL 2404
This is part of Hall's Hotel that only the staff seen and here are some of them.
On the left is Unknown, Miss Sikas Manageress, Maureen Gaynor, Susan Conway and sadly the rest are Unknown as is the year.

HIGH STREET 009
Photographed before 1938 to the left of the picture you can see Lough Neagh Hotel. The town is getting prosperous more shops and more traffic, no horses to be seen but they are still around. The poles that are along the street are telegraph poles which then carried the telephone lines. Date is unknown.

HALLS HOTEL 2401
Here we are in Hall's Hotel and here are some of the staff at the bar.
On the left we have Alan Gillespie, Nellie Carroll, Maureen Gaynor receptionist and Tom Kearney.

HALLS HOTEL 2405
Here we have some of Hall's Hotel staff posing for a photograph.
On the left is Elizabeth Kennedy, Maureen Gaynor, Unknown, Susan Conway, Unknown and Unknown

HALLS HOTEL 2402
Sitting going over the bookings for Hall's hotel we have Agnes McMeeking and Maureen Gaynor who was the receptionist.

HALLS HOTEL 2408
This is Joan McCready the proprietor of Hall's Hotel receiving a silver tea and coffee set from Margaret and the Rest of the Staff.

HALLS HOTEL 2403
Ready to ring in the money behind the bar in Hall's Hotel is Maureen Gaynor.
Maureen was just posing for the photograph for she was really the Receptionist.

HALL'S HOTEL LUGGAGE LABEL 2400
Just as you use luggage labels today they were using them back in the 1940's when coming to stay in Antrim at the Hall's Hotel that was in High Street.