Randalstown F1

FARMHOUSE SUPPER
Randalstown OC Presbyterian Church had a farmhouse supper in 1968.
This is the scene that greeted the guests but whether Joe Hill, Jim Fletcher, George Spence and James Drummond played the instruments is unknown.

FAMILY GATHERING
It's the 1930's and in this group photo at the back in Unknown and William Millar.
Then we have Granny Jean Millar and her famous white pinny, Unknown, Unknown and James Millar. The unknowns are believed to be relatives visiting.

FANCY DRESS PARADE
At this fancy dress parade at Randalstown in 1946 the donkey (which is the middle) knows who is the best one there!
After the Second World War this became an annual event throughout villages and towns in the North. Some of the people I have spoken to would love to
see it started up again and it was always great fun. They also raised money for different causes and one time they purchased a car for the local district nurse
which had been organised by Miss Florence Walker, Jack Purce and the Rev.William Hanna. This bunch of happy people in the parade were known as
Tom McVeigh and his merry band of "Gypsies". On the left is May Saunders, Ena Houston, Edna Quigley, Eva McFadden, Billy Porter next to the donkey,
then Eileen Quigley, Margaret Small, Rebecca Hume, Jack Hill and Bailie Fleming.

FANCY DRESS PARADE
I don't fancy these two horses pulling this plough but they went on to win First prize as 'Misery Farm in the 'Most Amusing' section in June 1948.
Leading the horses we have on the left Noel Millar and on the right Warren Clarke. The horses were William McFadden and Alex Hall. Then James Millar and Wesley Peoples, guiding the plough was Norman Graham. Apparently when turning the New Street corner one of the horses stopped for a call of nature by pouring out a bottle of water much to the amusement of the spectators.

FIRST RANDALSTOWN SCOUTS
These scouts in Shane's Castle grounds 1912 belonged to First Randalstown Scouts. They have the fame of being one of the earliest scout troops in Ireland for they were founded in 1910 just two years after Lord Baden-Powell formed the scout movement. The staves the boys are displaying were used for many purposes in making stretchers, surveying, building bridges and when the scout master wasn't watching playing Robin Hood adventures. Sadly none of the boys in the photograph have been identified as of yet.

FIVE CORNERS
Here we have Philip Johnston with his girl friend Moreen McNally back into 1973.
They were having a quiet drink together at the Five Corners which back then was just a house with a room turned into a pub.