Skipping song – incomplete
Can anybody complete/correct the following skipping rhyme that’s running through my head ?
Knickers’ pockets
As well as ration books for food and fruit, households were issued with clothing and sweet coupons. Because of the shortage of material and the need for coupons, it was not unusual to have old garments unpicked and remade into other clothes for children.
I had one such garment, a brown serge suit trimmed with mustard which had been an old coat belonging to one of my aunts. Woollen garments were also unpicked, the wool washed and a new garment then re-knitted.
The Long Wait: McGladdery
McGladdery’s home was searched and there the police, among other suspicious items found a copy of Mickey Spillane’s The Long Wait …
How Many?
Initially ‘How Many’ ?
1 7 W of the W
2 1001 A N
3 52 C in a D
4 9 P in the S S
5 88 P K
6 13 S on the A F
7 32 D at which W F
8 18 H on a G C
9 90 D in a R A
10 200 D for P G in M
11 3 B M (S H T R)
12 4 Q in a G
13 24 H in a D
14 1 W on a U
15 57 H V
16 11 P on a F T
17 29 D in F of a L Y
18 64 s on a C B
19 40 D and N of the G F
20 50 S in the U
21 12 in a D
22 9 P on a B T
23 60 S in a M
24 4 W on a C
25 2 P in a Q
Workhouse 7
AFTER THE FAMINE
Even among neighbouring Poor Law Unions, Newry had a reputation for niggardliness in its treatment of its paupers.
Hollands and friends
It’s over fifty years ago now. These five girls and one boy posed for the camera perched on a large rock against the backdrop of the old and deserted Willis’s Bakery.
Tom McKeown delivers milk
In the mid 40’s every boy tried hard to get an after-school job. I was no different. My first job was in Frank Sweeney’s chemist shop – now Connolly’s Shoe Shop. My job was washing medicine bottles using a bottle brush and a bath of cold water. All the old bottles that were returned to the shop had to be washed and dried for reuse and I was paid 3/6d for this task.
Adavoyle Revenge Shooting
We just related the tale of the Adavoyle Ambush. The English were swift in exacting revenge. In fact it was almost exactly a month later, on 23 July 1922.
Faith in Albion
In response to recent articles and the latest thread, we received this anonymous contribution. Thought you might like it!
Castle Roche, Co Louth
We have many fine examples of ancient castle ruins in our area (Bagenal’s certainly NOT being one of them!) and the one I write of now is about five miles southwest of the border at Forkhill. It is
