Interview with Nigel Dougherty I lived in number 33 next to the chippy and I used to play ball games against my gable wall. There was hardly any traffic back then so I mostly was outside with my friends. I think the special memories were playing cricket and football with my friends. We also played all the traditional games at the top of Ebrington Street, which we called the 'THE BIG YARD'. If there were old pram wheels we would have made GO KARTS and we would have races down Bond Street and eventually crashing into something! I was a pupil at Ebrington Primary School and I never missed a day of Sunday school at Ebrington Church. Most of the adults worked in the Rochester's and Young Shirt factory but the majority of the woman stayed home and cooked and cleaned.

Nigel Dougherty

Interview with Lloyd Magee I live at 13 Bonds Street. When I was a boy in Bonds street the girls played hopscotch and skipping and the boys played handball, football, marbles, and muggy that's how we entertained ourselves. I attended the old Ebrington primary school when the new school opened we had to walk up to the front gate then walk into the entrance and we would have been put into our class. We used to get offered seconds at dinnertime which was semolina and prunes.

Lloyd Magee