Archive (10 life histories found)

The Yanks threw a party for all the children in the district in the ballroom of the Great Northern Hotel. A beautiful building covered with ivy when changed colour.Their barracks was just a short distance from May Cottage and we saw a lot of what…

Photograph of Fairy Glen Cottage where Hugh Duncan spent time as an evacuee during World War II

Photograph of May Cottage, Rostrevor, where Hugh Duncan was spent time as an evacuee during World War II

My first significant memory is going to Malone Place maternity hospital,Belfast to collect my baby brother Basil. I was then 8 years old. I can remember world war two being declared in September 1939. In 1941 I can remember going to live with…

Article on Hugh Duncan's book about being evacuated to Rostrevor during World War II

Letter from the office of Mary McAleese thanking Hugh Duncan for the gift of his book 'From Ballymacarett To the Fairy Glen'

Article about Hugh Duncan's book about his time as an evacuee during World War II

Article about the launch of Hugh Duncan's book about his experience of evacuation during World War II

Article about Hugh Duncan's experience of being evacuated to Rostrevor during World War II

Members of the Rostrevor Historical group are pictured with Hugh Duncan, a former evacuee from Belfast, who launched the story of his time in Rostrevor at St. Bronagh's Hall