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I don't think I had ever met a child whose mother was dead until after 1964 when a family of seven children and their father came to live in the farm across the road from us. Tommy Loughran was a hard working man whose young wife had died about a…

At Glengormley, I was a member of the auxiliary fire service and one of the engine drivers. The fire station was at the top of Church Road and when the siren went, I had to hurry there, irrespective of what time of day or night it was.