Cinema Ticket from 1939

The world goes to war - and what do the people of Ballycastle do? They go to the cinema - to try and raise funds to develop amusements!
This programme from 1952 shows just how inflation has been over the intervening years. Just think, six hundred children could have went to the matinee for £5 - if it had been big enough to hold them! Interestingly that price remained the same up until I was too old to go to the matinee. The cheapest nightly admission had increased to one shilling by the time I was old enough to go.

From: Picturesque Ireland; a Literary and Artistic Delineation of Its Scenery, Antiquities, Buildings, Abbeys Etc. - Savage, John (editor) 1884
This is the chapter on County Antrim extracted from this wonderful book. The illustrations accompanying the text are absolutely marvellous.As it is quite a lengthy chapter and there are numerous illustrations I have split it into several sections, starting at Belfast. You will be able to jump to any other section, but you should bear in mind that, as with the original, some illustrations relating to a particular section may appear with the text of another section.

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Doon Point, Island of Rathlin

This story and illustration are taken from an 1834 edition of the "Dublin Penny Journal". The illustration is a very stylised engraving of Doon Point. The story about young love on Rathlin is quite long, and very much in the style of those years.

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Goods Invoice 1946
This goods invoice was for goods being sent from Farnham to Ballycastle in 1946. It was for two cartons of "Dabitoff" destined for Ramsey's (presumably Ramsey's the chemist). The cost was 5 shillings and ten pence - approximately 29p in todays money. The goods would have been transported the last fifteen miles by the narrow guage railway which run from Ballymoney to Ballycastle.

Click here for image of invoice.

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Dunluce Castle

An excellent little guide published by HMSO in 1947. Every bit as relevant and useful today!

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.. more Dunluce

Back to 1832 for this short article and illustration of Dunluce Castle from the Dublin Penny Journal.

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Engravings by William Henry Bartlett
These engravings of the North Antrim coast were originally published about 1839. They are reproduced here with the original text. I added a further five engravings from the same book in May 2006, but unfortunately do not have the accompanying text.

Carrick-a-Rede
This engraving and description of the famous rope bridge are taken from
"The People's Gallery of Engravings: Three Volumes "
by George Newenham Wright and Charles Henry Timperley which were published 1844 to 1846.

Invoices from 1923
These three invoices are for goods travelling by the Ballycastle Railway Company in 1923. In each of the cases the invoice is made out to W.J.Caldwell in Ann Street and are signed by P. Duffin. The goods are from different addresses in Belfast.

Choose an invoice 1 2 3

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I can not figure out what these cards were originally designed for. They are exactly half the size of a standard postcard, but don't have any markings on the back.

The quality of the cards and photographs is not good, but they date from approximately 100 years ago. Just click on the image of McGildowney's pier to see all the cards.

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