Welcome to the South Antrim Living Memories Project website. This was a community-driven project that brought together enthusiastic and committed volunteers and local people in Doagh, Toome and Whitehead who were willing to share their memories and so paint a clearer picture of life in their respective communities in the early years of the twentieth century. We hope that you enjoy what you discover here.
The website has been almost totally based on people’s recollections of past times. The information gathered paints a vivid and heartfelt picture of less tangible things like feelings, perceptions and emotions and how these have helped form the recollections of their youth. Those whose memories stretch back 70, 80, or even 90 years possess an incredible resource that provides a window on a lost age and a way of understanding more about the lives of our forebears.