The Bickerstaff Connection

Memories of roses in Glenavy, the Belfast blitz, unexploded bombs and another that blew the park ducks to - ‘Duck heaven’ William Leslie, Al...

Ernest Lavery continues his description of his days at Harding Memorial elementary school when the intervention of angry mothers led to: - D...

From country vicarage through the ‘hungry thirties’ to being ‘educated’ at the hands of a psychotic headmaster Ernest Lavery, a great grands...

3. Meanwhile back at home While members of the McQuoid family served in the armed services during the Second World War others served their c...

Sharon Grocholski, whose grandfather came from Glenavy, reflects on the contribution which a North of Ireland family has made to education i...

2. Women at War In 1909, in a remarkable act of anticipatory thinking, the British Government decided to form Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD...

1. Men at War Service to the crown was a feature of the Bickerstaff family and its offshoots down different generations – with changeable o...