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One of my first memories was sitting on the floor in the living room with the mice running over my legs
My name is Norma Stewart McCullough. I was born on 26th September 1937. For the first ten years of my life I moved around quite a bit. The house I was born in was in Joanmount Crescent on the Ballysillan Road,where I stayed until my father joined…
Tags: father, grandmother, house, mice and rats, mother, RAF
'...my father started cleaning the windows, something he had not done since the day I was born. He was quite vexed at leaving me in the convent.'
It was during my year teaching in St Malachy's, that I entered the Sisters of Mercy on the Crumlin Road. My father and mother left me there on 24th September 1972. My mother told me that when he returned home again, my father started cleaning the…
'He said he had seen her and she was wearing something light. They all had a good laugh over that'
Daddy loved books and music and hearing of faraway places. I think at one stage when he was young there was a band in Dromahair because he was learning the flute. He knew all the notes and he was forever saying it was the most wonderful instrument. …
My father and mother with me
Outside Daddy's Workshop
'I always remember that for one year I was judged to be the best boy when I was about twelve years old.'
My memories of childhood centre very much around my home and of the very good mum and dad I had, and along with my two sisters -Violet older than me and Phyllis younger, made a very happy family.Mother and father slept in the front double bedroom…
Tags: bath, best clothes, father, house, mother, Sunday school
'One of my first memories was sitting on the floor in the living room with the mice running over my legs.'
My name is Norma Stewart McCullough. I was born on 26th September 1937. For the first ten years of my life I moved around quite a bit. The house I was born in was in Joanmount Crescent on the Ballysillan Road,where I stayed until my father joined…
Tags: father, grandmother, house, mice and rats, mother, RAF
'In November 1938 arrest, jail, and concentration camp followed'
In 1938 my brother and sister had already left for England,but my father and I were arrested-they called it protective custody. In November 1938 arrest,jail,and concentration camp followed. When my father and I were arrested,we spent a few days at…