Spring Fair at The Ballance House

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The Spring Fair on Saturday 7 May, 1 - 4 pm, promises to be a great fun afternoon out for all the family, including activities for children and time to relax in the Tea Barn.  

We have a lovely range of stalls - including fresh flowers from Foliage Works, prints by local artist Lawrence Chambers, delicious jams and chutneys from Annie’s Delights, Indigo Dream Angels, Holden’s Chocolates, and Whispering Willow candles.   A colourful selection of plants and pots will also be for sale.

We are very pleased to have the RSPB and Ulster Wildlife Trust along to promote wildlife, a theme which we will also be picking up in our photography competition - one of the categories being Best Wildlife/Outdoors Photo at the Fair.

Great prizes have been provided for the photography competition - a meal for two at The Hillside, dinner at Alfredos, a print from Lawrence Chambers, family passes to Lisburn LeisurePlex and a piece of Reaction jewellery from Visit Lisburn & Castlereagh.  So don’t forget to bring your camera!

Plant and take home a sunflower seed in a pot, grow it on to be the tallest and win a family pass to Sunflower Fest in Hillsborough, the coolest music and arts festival this summer.

 

Anzac Commemoration 2016

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The 101st anniversary of the Allied landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula will be commemorated at the Ballance House on Sunday 24th April 2016. Included in the landings on that dreadful morning in 1915 were the ANZAC Corps and the 29th British Division which included 1st Battalion Royal lnniskilling Fusiliers, 1st Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers and 1st Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers. It was later in the campaign that 10th (Irish) Division landed at Suvla Bay in an effort to break the stale-mate. The Dublins and Munsters landed from the SS River Clyde on 25th April 1915 and were decimated as they came ashore. The ANZACs were landed a mile from their planned landing place further up the coast and came under immediate heavy sustained fire. This was the first occasion on which the ANZACs had answered the request of the Mother Country for help in time of war and in so doing suffered horrendously. In New Zealand and Australia, ANZAC day is remembered with pride to this very day with many thousands making the pilgrimage back to Gallipoli.