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'TB in that period was rampant and everyone was terrified of it'
There was a great sense of neighbourliness in the village. Patrick Oates who used to run a hackney service got a stroke and was sick for quite a while. Mammy used to take turns with other women to sit up all night with him. She would arrive in…
Tags: community life, neighbourliness, radios, sickness, TB
'Within a few years everybody seemed to have disappeared'
We got an odd newspaper from England but us children were not allowed to read it. I usually got my hands on it (News of the World) and read it thoroughly. All I could see were one or two pictures of so called glamour models.Then within a few years…