ALLIE O'NEILL
This is Allie O'Neill on the 29th November 1909 have her portrait taken.
It was taken at Sallie Charles which was in Curzon Street, Mayfair in London.

AUNT BLOSSOM
It's 25th October 1945 and this is Blossom McCaughey who was in the women's Auxitiary Territorial Service and was the aged 18.
In the army, women joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). Like soldiers, they wore a khaki uniform. The recruiting posters were glamorous - some
were considered too glamorous by Winston Churchill - and many young ladies joined the ATS because they believed they would lead a life of glamour.
They were to be disappointed. Members of the ATS did not get the glamour jobs - they acted as drivers, worked in mess halls where many had to peel
potatoes, acted a cleaners and they worked on anti-aircraft guns. But an order by Winston Churchill forbade ATS ladies from actually firing an AA gun
as he felt that they would not be able to cope with the knowledge that they might have shot down and killed young German men.
His attitude was odd as ATS ladies were allowed to track a plane, fuse the shells and be there when the firing cord was pulled……
By July 1942, the ATS had 217,000 women in it. As the war dragged on, women in the ATS were allowed to do more exciting jobs such as become welders
(unheard of in ‘civvie’ street), carpenters, electricians etc. Blossom had written on the photo: Your Loving Sis Amey.

THE ARCHES AND THE TOWN BRIDGE
It's 1949 and the hustle and bustle of the morning has given way to a quiet afternoon in Randalstown.
As this couple slowly make their way to the shops while on the other side is a young boy sitting on the wall passing the time away.