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Employment in the Second World War. |
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During the war of 1940-41, that would be when the aerodrome, as we called it, the aerodrome at St Angelo and then at Killadeas there was a sea plane base there. And a lot of the labour force come from the South, at that stage. And they cycled from the South to them places and they had to be there at eight o'clock. Quarries, different places. There'd be, well, scores, not dozens at all, there'd be scores of people cycling to Enniskillen from half six on. They would go to wherever their place of work was and they'd work as long as there was work and they'd be goin' home from, well, half six to maybe nine o'clock on a summer's evening. They would be buying bread, and buyin' anything they could get that was in short supply at home or in the south, they would be takin' it both ways, they would be takin' it. Whiskey was in short supply here and they would be takin' whiskey with them in the mornin's, and they would be takin' bicycle tyres and parts for bicycles and bread, bread would've been short now in the State and tea, if they could get tea or anything, coffee, cocoa, anything that would, y'know, suffice they would be bringing that with them.
Ref: 90-26-49.
Interviewer: Sandra Matchett, Fermanagh County Museum.
© Fermanagh County Museum. |
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Patrick Kerrin |
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90-26-49.mp3
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