Ballymoney Museum

4th July 2019

Badges of the Stranocum Regt, Ulster Home Guard.(see BHC:1998.132 & 133.1-4); badge no.692 (was to be awarded to ‘J. McCurdy’, 1998.132); emerald gree…

4th July 2019

Small empty medicine bottle for iodine paint, ‘Baxter Dispensing Chemists, Ballymoney, est 1874’; cork stopper in bottle; date unknown

4th July 2019

These fake eggs were placed below the hens to induce them to lay more; probably c.1920-30; surface has a glazed, shiney finish; visible repair work an…

4th July 2019

Copper and iron syphon pump; Syringe -like instrument with a long bent nozzle through which a plunger is drawn up and down. Copper has been highly pol…

4th July 2019

Jennie McClure of Drumaglea, buried in the family burying ground, Clough d. 8th Dec 1893, aged 81 years

4th July 2019

Robert Burns of Balnamore, buried in Third Presbyterian Church Ground, Ballymoney d.25th July 1898

4th July 2019

Elizabeth Hart of Burnquarter, buried in Kilraughts Burying Ground d. 6th October 1907

4th July 2019

Famine ration ticket, c.1847. Black print ‘1 ration By Authority: Printed by A. Thom, Dublin.’ issued for use in the soup kitchens, Ballymoney, during…

4th July 2019

Calendar for McConaghie Bros. agricultural engineers, Dervock, 1965. Illustration of three ducks in a marsh. Calendar month sheets all still intact.

4th July 2019

Printed by Edward Arnold Ltd. SBN 7131 1588 2. Purple cover with white print and illustraion of a typewriter. Wire spiral bound.

4th July 2019

Large compass, used for drawing circles on school blackboard with chalk. ‘Helix/Made in England’ carved into wood.

4th July 2019

Wooden frame, painted red; on frame are 10 rows of 10 multicoloured wooden counters suspended by thick wire.