The
new edition of Ollar View
is now on sale.The cover is
of the dam of the old paper mill
whose story in wartime is one of
the topics. The first fifty years
of the Twentieth Century are
reviewed and there is an account
of life in Ballyclare in the mid
nineteenth century. You can take
a walk up the Green Road with Bob
Grange to the Bleach
Green.
You
may learn how Grahamstown got its
name, meet famous local boxers
and remember wedding customs.
There is a chapter from Ernie
Scot's forthcoming book on
Ballynure and a look at the
changing roles of Ballyclare Town
Hall and Mossley Mill.
The
story of an Antrim girl who
become one of Donegal's greatest
writers and a verse from exiles
in Canada mix with the 'great
disaster of 1851 at Millvale' and
the story of the balloon which
carried off a car. Like the
previous three volumes this one
is illustrated with many rare
photographs of Ballyclare in the
past.
