Alexander Wilson is 68 now and this is a long,long time ago when he was 4... So Alexander had to get...
Gladys had an uncle called James... He was very glad that day that he had his bible in his pocket.when he...
My mother had ten children, and during the blackouts she had to gather all of her children up and run up to...
Most of my toys were inherited from Moore, my brother, who 6 years older than I, had been given a new...
An evacuee boy from Belfast worked on a neighbouring farm, but stayed in my granny's house. When the...
My father, James Millar, was employed at the John Kelly coal yards in Belfast docks all of his working...
Steven was only eleven years old in 1942 when his mother decided that he and his four brothers should move...
Maynard Sinclair, who was then in the Ulster Govt, came and addressed everybody and thanked them all for, I...
In the quiet little village of Castledawson most of the villagers were employed in the linen factory of J.A...
We lived at Ligoniel and used to take shelter in the 'coal hole' during the air-raids... I worked...
One night we were home when we heard Dublin was bombed... They thought they dropped the bombs in the water...
My father and me were driving back to the city form Ardmore, we had just arrived at Thompson's Corner...
Sometime in 1943 three of us young lads went into the local woods in Castledawson to collect some firewood....
As a small child living in a Co Antrim village, called Crumlin, close to Langford Lodge in Northern...
Chorus: Everybody pinches my butter, They won't leave my butter alone, And nothing is better than...
They came in D's and E's and E was twice the value of D. Each month there was an announcenent of...
Michael worked as an apprentice machinist in the belfast shipyard at the outset of the second world war......
During the war I lived in 23 Housten Street Ballyhackamore with my mother, and two brothers... As my mother...
Mr.Steed lived in a terraced house with no back garden so he had to go in an air raid shelter. The airraid...
Mother Margaret and father George senior, grandmother Emily and grandfather Wellington, called after the...
Nan Hatton's family home was in Mountnorris, Co... An Australian Air Force member — she thinks he...
3 THE REFUGEES After the Blitz, which killed and injured so many in Belfast there were even more people...
Recommended story
Story with photo 
|
