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Transporting milk during the Blackout. |
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During the war years, when the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, when they took over the milk, all the country creameries were closed except Kinawley, Springfield, Derrygonnelly, in this area and Enniskillen. It was the receiving depot, the whole milk was lorried in. Well, that milk was pasteurised and it was sent off in twelve gallon creamery cans to Belfast or Nutts Corner to the airport and it was, there was an air lift of milk to England for the forces, that went to the army and that went on for , for a number of years. That milk, there was, there was contractors paid for haulin' it, y'know, with lorries and all that and there would've been good money in it. But it was a nightmare to drive from Enniskillen to Belfast on a winter's night in the blackout, you wouldn't see, only a few yards in front of them. They would be, well they'd be at least five hours.
Ref: 90-26-50.
Interviewer: Sandra Matchett, Fermanagh County Museum.
© Fermanagh County Museum. |
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Patrick Kerrin |
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90-26-50.mp3
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