We were the first in the area to get a wireless, I think it was in 1933. Some of our relatives, who were better off than we were, thought that, as mother could not get out, she should have a sort of world coming into her. So they got this radio. It was a Murphy set, a very good wee set, and it was the wonder of all the neighbours even then.

Gracie Fields was one of the singers. She sang the ‘Isle of Capri’ and some of those old songs. At that time you had to have a wet battery and a dry battery. The wet battery would do maybe four weeks and then when it went off you had to take it to Enniskillen and you had to wait for maybe three days to get it back. A hackney car used to go from the foot of the Marlbank Road to Enniskillen every Tuesday. Before that there was a man, called Appleby, who started a bus service in Enniskillen in the twenties. He ran a bus from Enniskillen along the Florencecourt road to the Border at Blacklion. That went on for a few years. In fact the first time ever I got to Bundoran was on Appleby’s bus on a Sunday

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