Carnlough New Year’s Day swim: pictures from years gone by

Take a look back at the good old days with our selection of photographs from the paper’s archive.
By Elinor Glynn
Published 4th Jan 2022, 09:00 BST
Updated 4th Jan 2022, 10:04 BST
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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.

Here are some from past New Year’s Day Swims at Carnlough.

The temperature was a balmy 10 degrees for the New Years Day Spina Bifida swim in Carnlough, one of the warmest in the swim’s thirty-six year history as reflected by one of the swim’s veterans John ‘Smudger’ Smith. However event organiser Billy McIlroy was taking no chances as he wore his winter clothes. BT2-118JCThe temperature was a balmy 10 degrees for the New Years Day Spina Bifida swim in Carnlough, one of the warmest in the swim’s thirty-six year history as reflected by one of the swim’s veterans John ‘Smudger’ Smith. However event organiser Billy McIlroy was taking no chances as he wore his winter clothes. BT2-118JC
The temperature was a balmy 10 degrees for the New Years Day Spina Bifida swim in Carnlough, one of the warmest in the swim’s thirty-six year history as reflected by one of the swim’s veterans John ‘Smudger’ Smith. However event organiser Billy McIlroy was taking no chances as he wore his winter clothes. BT2-118JC

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

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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.