Archive (87 life histories found)

Childhood memories of oranges and fruit arriving after the war. People (young) dying of T.B. Fields, picking mushrooms, blackberries and playing games. Skipping, jackstones, buttons, rounders. Everything impromptu as there was no organising of…

I remember as a boy some other boys in The Boys Brigade. They wore little pillbox hats and navy like jerseys with matching socks. I couldn't join because my parents couldn't afford to buy me a uniform. I also remember the little girls going to…

I am now in residential care in Corkey House. At 80 years of age I look back over the years when in the early years of our marriage, Ann and I had our ups and downs with regard to our health. Things were going well and we had a son called…

I first met Robert Bradford in 1971 when he was a minister in the Methodist Church at Suffolk on the Stewartstown Road, the Upper Falls Road. He was a friend to everyone on the estate, a man who showed his Christianity in a quiet and caring way. He…

A significant date I will always remember was 11th November 1971. It was a time when my whole life changed and I became a Christian. Life really became more meaningful, seeing people in a different light and knowing they are important to God.I got…

I was born into a catholic family in an extremely catholic country at a time where priests were unquestioned and bishops were treated a princes of the church, with all the rights and privileges which that station entitled them to. I was raised in the…

My proudest achievement is not mine at all, except in a very peripheral manner. I am immensely proud of how my children have grown up into fine, well rounded people who care for each other and are a continuing source of pride and satisfaction to me…

My mother died in 1994 and in the sixteen year period from 1995 to 2011 I lost five siblings, George, Freda, Tony, Carmel and Gary, to cancer caused by excessive cigarette smoking. All five were heavy smokers from a young age and all died in their…

LIFE (anon)When I was one The War had begun. When I was TenIt was (Korean) wartime again.When I was Twenty I thought I knew plenty. When I was Thirty I liked to be flirty.When I was Forty I got rather sporty. When I was Fifty  I turned…

It was a very sad day for me when my husband passed away on 3rd of May 1997 at Altanagelvin Hospital, Londonderry, N. Ireland.27th of July, 1999 is a heart broken sad day for me when my daughter left us in Royal free Hospital at Newcastle Upon Tyne…