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Electricity, radio and telephones. |
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The vast majority, if not all of the farming houses at that time had no electricity. They had no running water as you have it today. They had no telephone, television, radio or anything of that nature. The light was usually from oil lamps. In 1924, in my home, there was an engine bought, a generator that made electricity, we made our own light. And I remember the first radio that came about the place. The mystery of hearing a man's voice in London with no apparent connection between London and our home. The voice came over the air. That was a mystery. And then of course the telephone came and we had a line shared with five other people and if it rang twice it was ourselves, if it rang once it was the police station, if it rang three times it was Henry Burke's and if it rang four times it was Herbert Moffat's. We always had the suspicion, when you lifted the phone to have a conversation, that there might have been somebody else listening to you.
Ref: 90-58-93.
Interviewer: Sandra Matchett, Fermanagh County Museum.
© Fermanagh County Museum. |
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Harry West |
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90-58-93.mp3
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