I remember during the early part of the war – the Second World War – that most things, including fuel, were rationed.
Burn the furniture!
Places
Kilkeel Residents 1916
This is another in our occasional series intended to help those in search of their forebears – this time in Kilkeel, County Down. There will be two more of Kilkeel 1916 to follow …
Nailer’s Prize Buggy
The usual starting and finishing points for these gladiatorial buggy contests were the Egyptian Arch (actually a point 500 yards to the town side of it – where the entrance to Derrybeg Park is today) and the corrugated fence of McClelland’s chicken coop, at the foot of the Pighall Loanan.
Buggy Launch!
After all that work, it is little wonder that we favoured a great fanfare launch when – at long last – our new ball-bearing buggy was ready to be inflicted upon an unwary world!
Hippy and Cornerboy …
After the disaster with the boiled chicken, I learned quick and there were lots of good feeds in my house. Like I said, the younger fellows had to bring something to the house …..
Dad reaches out
My father too was heart-broken. This was the first time in my life I had seen him cry and I wanted to cry too, with him, and with mother, for Hughie, and for myself but the tears would not come. I walked away to be alone.
Chicken a la Bang!
My name’s Tommy Morrow and I was telling you about my life after I ran away from home at a very early age. The little house I rented for 9d a week became a ceili house …
Linenhall Sq: 1935: 2
More nicknames to decipher? OK. Mousey, Bum, Soapy and Crow. Work it out!
Robert Stewart was grandfather to Robby Martin of Flashpoint!
Not like his beloved Ireland
I remembered Hughie as a mischevious, adorable curly-haired boy of six or so, in summer dressed in baggy overalls that were four inches too short and in well-worn, laceless, hand-me-down mud-spattered shoes.