Archive (4 life histories found)

Becoming a teenager was thankfully very different in those days. I was still involved with the choir and that filled my teenage years fully. All of our time was spent there because now we had a hall where records and photography was practiced and…

I was 65 on the 30th April, 2010 and, having completed almost 50 years in the retail business, I decided it was time to take things a little bit easier. At that time, I was working with my daughter, Dara and her husband, Brian, in their spar…

I spent 40 Christmases in Carlin Records and I didn't regard a single day of it as 'work' or a 'job'. I just loved it and it was a major part of my life. I am sure that the fact it was our family business was the reason that I put my whole heart and…

I got married in 1959. My late husband owned a grocers shop,off the Crumlin Road. I helped in the shop,keeping books and running a very busy grocery shop until his death in 1971. I then started working in the Royal Victoria Hospital,Bacteriology…