Our foot ‘pads’ were cement pavings, two-broad to the edge of the kribben, and none too evenly laid, but this just added to the thrill, as we thundered along on our ball-bearing buggies.
Reminiscence
Tiny Eggs
I had to earn my 9d a week rent, as well as a living for myself so I started working for any one who’d have me. I was working about McComb’s, and Tom Loughlin’s and Eddie Magill’s.
Orphaned and homeless
My mother died in childbirth when I was ten. She left three boys and three girls. My father coped for about a year ………..
Poyntzpass/Acton
Tommy Morrow recorded his memories of the Poyntzpass area in the 1930s and 1940s.
‘There were 82 businesses then.
Meadow: Pigeons [2]
There was a strict regulation imposed on all new tenants of The Meadow estate in the late 40s-early 50s that no wild or domesticated animals be kept in or about these pristine new homes.
My Girls, still together!
I spotted this photo and the story that accompanied it, in the paper this week and my sore old heart gave a little skip for joy!
Hughie comes home
Before Hughie’s wake could begin, Mum sat in the room fingering her rosary, just waiting. How often had she waited for the men in her life to come home? Consumed in herself as she remembered the past, she remained barely conscious of what was going on around her.
Home for Hughie’s funeral
Fred Trimmer, my brother-in-law and some of my sisters met me at the airport in north