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Evacuees from the Belfast Blitz. |
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Emily Cathcart: Then we had to deal with the evacuees. WVS were called in to deal with them. And there was one house down.
Interviewer: What was called in to deal with them?
Emily Cathcart: WVS.
Interviewer: WVS - the Women’s Volunteer.
Emily Cathcart: Women’s Voluntary Society. And I was made organiser of that, the WVS. And it became a great call, and, of course, I should remember the date, but it was early in the war, and a whole crowd of them were brought to Enniskillen, women and children, and there was a house down there and it was empty at the time, and they were landed in there. And we were called in to provide them with pots and pans and blankets and all kinds of things. An awful time.
Interviewer: Well, were they, did they come to Enniskillen, and they were divided out in various areas?
Emily Cathcart: Come from Belfast, and they were brought down to Enniskillen and they were divided out to the different areas.
Ref: 99-012-80.
Interviewer: Joan Duffy, Women's Oral History Project.
© Fermanagh County Museum and Clogher Historical Society. |
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Emily Cathcart |
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99-012-80.mp3
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