IN PICTURES: Take a look through the Ballymena Times’ archive

Harryville HPS open bird show winners Blair Rankin, Fancy Class, Timmy Mawhinney, Best in Show; and Owen O'Neill and son, Pat, Best Young Bird with their birds at the club house on Saturday evening. BT49-(815)H

Take a look back at the good old days with our selection of photographs from the paper’s archive.

More every week in the Ballymena Times.

If you have any old photographs that you would like to share with our readers, we would love to hear from you.

Dogs Trust volunteer Alsion Reed sells a callender to Margaret Gough, Leonard Punter and Leaanne Punter at the recent Dogs Trust Christmas Fair. BT49-(810)H

Do you have photographs from school? Maybe a sports team you played on? Or a special event that was a special memory?

We would love to see them. Send any old photographs, together with any details you have about the photo, to [email protected] and we will use as many as we can in the paper.

*Note: Some pictures may have been cropped for web publication purposes.

Minister of West Church Rev Daniel Kane and Assistant Minister Mr Mark Donald with some of those who attended the “Men, Motors and the Message” evening at the Country Garage. BT49-

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Alastair Mitchell, Technician at North East Institute, showing Maria Eagle, Minister for Employment and Learning, how to operate a robotic arm at North East Institute, during the minister's visit to the Institute to help celebrate the achievements of a robotics project. BT49

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