Nothing like the past to illustrate how change grows ever faster

I SPENT Easter Sunday afternoon in the company of friends and their children visiting the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in Belfast.

It is said to be Northern Ireland’s most popular tourist attraction and it lived up to its impressive reputation.

The place includes an amazing replica of a typical small Irish country town, as it would have been about 1910-1920. It included all the usual buildings: a terrace of two-up, two-down labourers’ houses, a barracks, a school, a courthouse, two churches with adjoining presbytery and rectory respectively and a selection of stores and workshops.