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NATIONAL SCHOOL
This National School in 1935 which being on the Craigstown Road in Randalstown was for Girls and today in its place is
Mount St. Michael's Maintained Primary School.
Standing at the back are B. Gilmore, V. Gilmore, R. Henry, M. O'Kane with a butterfly broach on her dress, S. Millar, M.Mullan, K. Hamilton,
M. Thornton, L. McCann, N. Corr and the teacher Miss Cunningham. Middle row has M. Diamond who has a beautiful Celtic pattern on her dress,
S. Magill, M. Kewly, M. McCormack, K. McCann, A. McIlroy, A. Hamill. L. Millar, B. Scott, M. Kennedy is wearing a locket and finally C. O'Kane.
Seated are K.O'Kane, K. O'Kane, O. Gilmore, B. McAteer in her bare feet, D. McKay, S. McKay, D. Dowds, L. Hamill, L. O'Kane, A. Scott and E. McCune.

NEW STREET
"Like father like Son" is an expression that rings true of this photograph in New Street Randalstown in 1915, for the camera man this day W.A.Green's son. W.A.Green was for once not behind the camera but seated in the car in the middle of the street. The car to the left has it's engine running as you can see the smoke to the left of it, probably because the car lights are on for the photo. Over to the right is Mrs French standing in the doorway of Temperance Hotel which the family ran from 1877 to 1950. Going down the street next we have R. A. Smyth's the grocers, then Randalstown's own "Whitehouse" as the locals called it, why I don't know. Mr A.M.Purce owned the three storey building and had his draper's shop with also a banner painting business. Outside the shop at the kerbside there are support rods with beams that run back to the shop at an angle. Now look across the road and you will see the reason for them, the awnings, back then they didn't have roller awnings. Now down the same side there are two men with cows on the pavement and beyond them in the street is a man lifting full sacks off the road which must have just been delivered and way in the distance is the tall chimney of the local mill.

NATIONAL SCHOOL No.2
Photographed outside Randalstown National No.2 School at Feehogue we have the class of 1906. When you look at all the boys white collars and the girls
white pinafores their mums had some washing to do and all done by hand. It was the No.2 National school because there already was a National school in
New Street. It was built in 1867 for the Rev.James B. Houston who was then minister of First Randalstown Presbyterian Church and of course was known
locally as Huston's School. In 1911 renovation work was done to the school and then became a National School. In June 1937 both National schools closed
and moved to the newly built Central Primary School. Sadly like a lot of old buildings it was demolished in 1960.

NEW STREET
The year is 1910 and it's Market Day in New Street and when the street was built in 1827 it was known then as New Market Street.
The market was held on the first Wednesday of the month and was mainly for farmers, butchers ect for the buying and selling of cattle, horses, pigs, sheep ect. The building on the right was a General Merchant store run by the McFadden Brothers from 1900, before that is was a Drapery and Haberdashery store from 1850 and run by the Bulter family from Craigmore.