Test your knowledge of Ballymena history!

2. Before shopping centres and mass production, people shopped daily for fresh produce and fairs and markets were busy commercial spots in our towns. Which shopping centre now stands on the site of this cattle market?

3. Which shopping street is this?

4. In what decade did the Tower Centre open in Ballymena?

5. Arthur Cottage in Cullybackey is the ancestral home of Chester A. Arthur. His grandparents Alan and Eliza Arthur lived in the cottage and their son William was born there in 1797. William, along with other members of the family, emigrated to North America around 1920. Chester A. Arthur was born in 1829 in Vermont and became the 21st President of the United States. In which townland is the cottage?

6. This street looks very different today. Can you tell where it is? You may be able to see the Town Hall in the background which will give you a clue.

7. David Herbison (1800-1880) was an Ulster Scots poet, part of group of Irish poets known as the Rhyming Weavers due to their connection to the linen industry. Herbison was particularly influenced by the poetry of Robert Burns. A monument to him, paid for by public subscription, stands in Ballymena Cemetery. Due to his writing career he was known as...?

8. This artist’s sketch is of the Old Market House in Ballymena. The Market House was built there in 1684 and traded for over a century until it was gutted by fire during the 1789 Rebellion. What present day building now occupies this site?

There was a well known ballroom on this street in the 1960s. The Rolling Stones, Roy Orbison and Dusty Springfield all played there as well as many local showbands. What was the name of the ballroom?