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 O’Donnell. 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.
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