Archive (2 life histories found)
'We didn't have a honeymoon '
I first met Hannah in a queue waiting to go into the Crumlin Picture House. She was wearing a Linfield scarf and I a Glentoran scarf. Glentoran were beaten. Because Hannah's mother died on the date arranged we had to postpone the wedding for 6…
'To get a mortgage was difficult; you needed a long history of saving in one of the building societies '
A year later we bought 16 Rowanbyrn in Blackrock for £9,800. We got the maximum mortgage of £7,000 (you were only allowed 70% of purchase price and also the husband's salary was only considered in calculating what repayments would be possible). At…