Bridge Street, Newry 1914
1 William Hardy
1a Mary Neary
2 Margaret Fisher
Reminiscence
Mushrats
During those ‘washday’ trips to the local river, which we turned into a picnic/day-out, the baby was placed in the care of my sister Mary-Ann. She tended him on the grassy bank while Sally and I helped our mother.
Boat Street etc 1914
I will transport you now to the other end of town – the South-East – at the outbreak of the Great War. Who lived there?
Canal Street Residents 1914
Canal Street used to have its own Police Barracks and its own
My father once worked for Joe McCullough of Number 19 who was a carpenter.
Sunnyside
When we arrived in Canada way back in the early Twenties, our house in St Bride’s had not yet been built and we were assigned a house on a farm in Sunnyside – about fourteen miles north-east of Edmonton.
Who’ll dig the new potatoes?
Though just a boy, I had kept a dry eye throughout this departure. Not so my grandfather Old Felix. Tears were coursing down the old man’s deeply-grooved cheeks.