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Ballynure Road, BALLYCLARE, BT39 9YU

A footbridge, from the leisure centre (behind me), across the Sixmilewater, to the War Memorial Park Image The river is not shown on the Google map – see the satellite photograph.

Located in the town of Ballyclare, County Antrim.

The former police station on the Ballynure Road – closed but still with signs in place and not yet offered for sale. The satellite photograph shows a large area at the side and back making this another potentially desirable development site.

See Image An inscription showing the building’s original name.

The Central Dining Rooms at 49-51 Main Street, next to the Ulster Bank Image (left). Apparently unchanged above the ground floor (save for the glazing) the building is not listed but the official description contains this “Attached two-storey two-bay former ‘Central Dining Rooms’ building, built c.1830, located to south of Main Street . . . . . The building appears on the first edition OS map of the area (1833) as part of the terrace of buildings that make up Main Street. Originally the building was a shop to the ground floor, with dwelling above.” Image shows the building’s name.

The Ulster Bank at 49 Main Street – one of the branches to have survived the banking crisis closures. Not a listed building but the official description contains this “Detached three-bay two-storey bank, built c.1900, aligned east-west to the south side of Main Street . . . . . . Valuation Revisions date the bank to c.1925, with a list entry recording a ‘bank house, office, yard and small garden’, occupied by the ‘Ulster Banking Company’, and valued at £80. This replaces an earlier entry dated 1896 on the same plot, describing a ‘licensed house, office, yard and small garden’, valued at £9. The OS map of 1857 shows a smaller building on the site, described as a 'house, office and small garden', occupied by Robert Percy”. Image shows the chimneys.

See Image Four of the nine chimney pots. Banks had upstairs accommodation for the manager and his family in addition to the downstairs offices – all of which were heated by burning coal.

The Sixmilewater as it passes through Ballyclare. After recent rain the water level is very high and just beginning to burst onto the path alongside.

A Browns-bodied Volvo, outside Ballyclare fire station, on the Ballynure Road.

Two telephone boxes and an EIIR pillar box (BT39 203) at The Square.