Autumn is a special time of year – especially along our local country roads! Here’s Ballyknockan Road, just outside Ballygowan, Co.Down.

The image was made with the Fujifilm X-T4 mirrorless camera, F=45mm, f/7.1 @ 1/60th sec on ISO800
Ballygowan Presbyterian Church Hall.

Originally known as ‘The Olivet Home’ it was built to be an orphanage in 1886 by Alexander Orr Reid as a memorial to his only son who was killed in a shooting accident. It was purchased by Ballygowan Presbyterian Church in 1918 and used as a school and church hall. The inscription on the building is ‘The Time is Short’ – thought to be a reference to the death of one of the construction workers, who fell to his death from the roof. A white stone on the top of the tower marks the event.