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War brings prosperity to Fermanagh. |
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Well, the first time we got a cooker, a Wellstead cooker in 1950. Prosperity had come to the country during the War, funnily enough, and a little after it that this country then took off. We were under the Depression on up in to the early war years too, but then the War, even, even the War brought prosperity to this country because there were a lot of soldiers based here, and airmen down at Killadeas, and they had to be fed, and stuff had to be supplied to them, and men round the country supplied potatoes to them, and there was a lot of building going on at that time, there had to be places built for them and so forth, and men supplied sand and building material, and there were big orders from the Government y'see, for that. It really put the country on its feet. Sad for us to think of it, that it took war to do it, but that is true. Then in 1950 the country was far more prosperous too, and cattle were a good price, and people were getting a higher standard of living.
Ref: 90-20-43.
Interviewer: Sandra Matchett, Fermanagh County Museum.
© Fermanagh County Museum. |
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Ivy Elliot |
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90-20-43.mp3
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