GIRL SCOUTS 4078
Stopping here on Broughshane's Main Street in 1925 to have their photograph
taken are this merry band of Girl Scouts. All happy smiling faces and eager
to get on with their outing, at least their transport is motorized with benches
either side and steps at the back to get up onto the vehicle, no saftey belts
back then! The thatched building behind them is either a pub or a hotel.
St.
LOUIS CONVENT 3093
This photograph when it was taken was of St.Louis Covent in Ballymena.
History tells us that it was on 8 January 1924 a cold snowy day, according
to one of the Founding Sisters that the first four Sisters
of St Louis,
accompanied by the Mother General and Canon McNamee, from Monaghan, arrived
in Ballymena. They were warmly welcomed by the Very Reverend Thomas Canon
ODonnell. Here they stayed until 81 years later when they all left in
August 2005. The Covent is now a Grammar school, aptly called St.Louis Grammar
School.
Pages: