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Danger of tweaking a goat's beard Part 2	11/01/2002
The mystical power of the goat Part 1	04/01/2002
Shopping in the good old days	21/12/2001
Alfred was a wealth of information	14/12/2001
Memories to wartime trips to the maiden city	07/12/2001
Perfect weather for a good old yarn	30/11/2001
One community, but two time zones.	09/11/2001
A convincing attempt to keep the same opinion	26/10/2001
Source of wisdom	19/10/2001
World famous eels	12/10/2001
The highs and lows of an eel fisherman	12/10/2001
The Anthrax debate	05/10/2001
Haemalbuminuria or Red Water	28/09/2001
Pea-picking adventure down at the Feather Bed	14/09/2001
Osiers among the peas	14/09/2001
It was far easier in pre-war days	22/06/2001
Memories of the web	15/06/2001
Sam Wilson at 'Co Loanen' corner	8/06/2001
Turf making at Lough Money	01/06/2001
Costume drama in voting booths	25/05/2001
A farmers boy in the 1920's	18/05/2001
Syllabus for local Basketmakers	11/05/2001
No school and the sun shining	04/05/2001
Home delivery for Lisburn farmers	27/04/2001
When a new churn was a mod con	20/04/2001
Valuable lesson in border control	13/04/2001
Minister acts to save traditional craft	06/04/2001
Butcher and the Beast	30/03/2001
The day the wireless came to Aghadrumglasney	23/03/2001
Now that was overcrowding Aghadrumglasney 1925	16/03/2001
Aghadrumglasney in 1925	09/03/2001
Life at Aghadrumglasney in 1925	02/03/2001
Life of Luxury in 1925	23/02/2001
Sanitary Inspectors	16/02/2001
Barber's Life	02/02/2001
Bittersweet Memories	26/01/2001
Winter of 37	19/01/2001
Sands of Time	12/01/2001
Art of thatching	05/01/2001
Not too late to save a local craft	28/12/2000
Decommissioning	22/12/2000
Regulations	15/12/2000
Signs in Memory	08/12/2000
The woman of the three cows	01/12/2000
Noble History of House of Sorrow	24/11/2000
Big Joe's sad demise	17/11/2000
Ramblers Mother	10/11/2000
The 'tin age'	03/11/2000
The Railway Hat	27/10/2000
Conway Closure	29/09/2000
Petrol Trouble	16/09/2000
Ramblers Stories	09/09/2000
Portmore	02/09/2000
Barefoot	23/06/2000
Life without Electricity	16/06/2000
Mothers Tale	09/06/2000
The sad tale of poor Joe	02/06/2000

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Remembering the days of `Banana Ben'	16/12/2005
Are wasps just a pest or are they good for something?	07/10/2005
I remember the day I was hit by an Austin Sixteen	01/07/2005
The mystery at Darganstown	10/06/2005
The many uses for a potato basket	03/06/2005
A letter from Tyneside proves a pleasant surprise	29/04/2005
The hired Boy (Aghalee mourns the loss of a grand old gentleman)	26/12/2003
Did you hear the one about the turkey?	05/12/2003
Lough Neagh has wonderful potential for tourism	28/11/2003
The happy days of directive free farming	02/05/2003
Thoughts drift back.. to another era of shopping	18/04/2003
A great sense of humour	28/03/2003
When farming was so much simpler	21/03/2003
Books of verse were written in Ulster dialect	14/03/2003
World Famous Ulster artist spent childhood in Moira	07/03/2003
Worn out baskets make quite a blaze	28/02/2003
Power of level lan' round the Lough	21/02/2003
The man who always looked on the bright side of life	14/02/2003
When the passengers complained the trains were running on time	31/01/2003
The final curtain at H &W brings back many memories	24/01/2003
Headline brings back memories of H&W in days gone by	17/01/2003
The life of the turkey in days gone by	10/01/2003
The very different art of a painter	03/01/2003
A retired Aghalee carrier looks back	27/12/2002
A salute to Alfred a doyen of retired postmen	13/12/2002
It took a good man to make a basket	06/12/2002
Recalling some of the best cracks over the years	29/11/2002
The welcome sound of an Ulster accent	22/11/2002
When it cost �22.00 for a brand new car	15/11/2002
Do you think it would burn? Just try it!	08/11/2002
Life on the Lough...	01/11/2002
An ancient art of baking soda bread	18/10/2002
The eel fisherman's lot is a complicated one	11/10/2002
An old enemy- with plenty of sting in tail	04/10/2002
You don't ask everyone you dance with their name, do you?	26/07/2002
The magic hands of Ruric Harwood	19/07/2002
It's a tough old life in the Civil Service	12/07/2002
Think of the drapers as well as the farmers	05/07/2002
Iron'-shod wheels and clink of horses shoes	28/06/2002
The start of a lifelong friendship	21/06/2002
Solving the mystery of the White Hall	14/06/2002
In search of a Whitehall	07/06/2002
A norration that's still remembered Rambler	31/05/2002
Rambling around the Coal Lane	24/05/2002
Recounting tales of townlands	17/05/2002
A fascinating look at townland names	10/05/2002
Sampling the fine art of basket making at Chestnut Hill	03/05/2002
Euro directives won't stop the tide of waste	26/04/2002
The season to plant potatoes	19/04/2002
Passing of aged Royal brings-back memories of Abdication in 1936	12/04/2002
Memories of Easter 1941	05/04/2002
Commuting from Moira in the days of bicycles and steam trains	15/03/2002
Reverting back to the favourite `old chestnut' of basket making	08/03/2002
You'd better believe that drinking water is good for you	01/03/2002
The popularity of yoghurt	01/02/2002
Euro panic! we remember the `change' of 1971	18/01/2002