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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…

Because of the blitz in 1941 our house at 82 Medway Street was wrecked by the German Luftwaffe. As our house was nearby the shipyard the blast from a German bomb damaged our house so badly we had to be evacuated to Killowen the next day.My Aunt…

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