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Originally posted by joan mack View PostIt was taken on Rutland ave A family celebration among the names mentioned where Stedmans and a few others, I will look it up.
Another Crumlin photo Durrow Road these photos are all on the Walsh Photographers thread Francis Street You may get more info from that site Stanley
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I love the Lupins I have some in my garden always last a long time as to Photos Nick we have millions of them despite the fact that cameras were scarce. Thanks to aunts and uncles who love to take photos and of course to Arthur who stood on O'Connells Bridge every day for over thirty years even Christmas day Your school friend Nick
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Thanks Joan ....you are an incredible person , I've now read a few of your short stories ......I have two books on the go ,one factual and the other fiction .....I hope I will get a chance of finish them sometime.....just get the old writer's block continuously .....that's probably because I am not a writer .....I'm a gabber .....
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I don't think you ever read my short stories Nick I have some on Kindle But I mainly write them for my friends and family. I hope to have a book published shortly I keep putting it on the long finger but these short stories are on Kindle
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Originally posted by joan mack View PostI don't think you ever read my short stories Nick I have some on Kindle But I mainly write them for my friends and family. I hope to have a book published shortly I keep putting it on the long finger but these short stories are on Kindle
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Originally posted by cosmo View Posttommy mc carthy front row second in from right, played for Athlone town ,I played with him later in the seventies.
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Originally posted by Nick Rossiter View PostWell , I read about Jack Daly and Eileen Murphy
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Leighlin road I knew this family
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Originally posted by joan mack View PostLeighlin road I knew this family
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Jew men were very Popular in Crumlin and the poor women desperate to provide confirmation clothes or communion clothes or Even to fund a Wedding etc. were quick to borrow.
The prices they charged was very high I think I remember one lady telling me thirty pound on every hundred.
Most husbands were unaware of the huge outflow of money from the weekly wage and wondered what the women were doing with the money,
I was told if you had paid back half a loan and wanted to renew it you were paying much more interest. It was Robbery and wrecked many a home.
Thankfully the Credit Unions put a stop to it all. Dockets were also very popular and many a jumper or shoes or even records were bought on dockets but the interest on those was not nearly as high, I often got a Bolgers Docket and the delight of spending it was great. Paying it back for twenty weeks however was hard. But then it was time for another one. It was live now pay later.
Only thing most people were sure to pay was life insurance. To be buried in a paupers grave would have been the greatest disgrace.
I was only eighteen married two weeks when my Mam sent the Insurance man to me I remember well the penny policies and although I insured my Mam and dad who were in their early forties I only received fifty pound after twenty three years on my Mam I left it soon after to a better plan. You were not allowed to insure your children for more then ten pound. That was in case you might have killed them just to get the money I was told or maybe infant mortality was too high at that time, Very hard timesLast edited by joan mack; 17-01-2018, 08:09 PM.
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Originally posted by joan mack View PostJew men were very Popular in Crumlin and the poor women desperate to provide confirmation clothes or communion clothes or Even to fund a Wedding etc. were quick to borrow.
The prices they charged was very high I think I remember one lady telling me thirty pound on every hundred.
Most husbands were unaware of the huge outflow of money from the weekly wage and wondered what the women were doing with the money,
I was told if you had paid back half a loan and wanted to renew it you were paying much more interest. It was Robbery and wrecked many a home.
Thankfully the Credit Unions put a stop to it all. Dockets were also very popular and many a jumper or shoes or even records were bought on dockets but the interest on those was not nearly as high, I often got a Bolgers Docket and the delight of spending it was great. Paying it back for twenty weeks however was hard. But then it was time for another one. It was live now pay later.
Only thing most people were sure to pay was life insurance. To be buried in a paupers grave would have been the greatest disgrace.
I was only eighteen married two weeks when my Mam sent the Insurance man to me I remember well the penny policies and although I insured my Mam and dad who were in their early forties I only received fifty pound after twenty three years on my Mam I left it soon after to a better plan. You were not allowed to insure your children for more then ten pound. That was in case you might have killed them just to get the money I was told or maybe infant mortality was too high at that time, Very hard times
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This was a meet when Boxman who owns the site came home from Australia a few years ago. There are a few posters here that still post
Bet you can't pick me out.
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Originally posted by joan mack View PostThis was a meet when Boxman who owns the site came home from Australia a few years ago. There are a few posters here that still post
Bet you can't pick me out.
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