Nora
Barry was from Tralee, County Kerry and went to
London in 1955 as she had relatives there. While she was there she worked at
British Home Stores. When she came to Leicester she worked in
Woolworths.
She first lived in a room on St. Peter's
Rd, then a room on New Walk. By then she had two kids, Terry and Anne, and got a
house on Slawson St, finally moving to Saffron Lane area.Terry went to school
with Lynda Callaghan at the new Holy Cross on Stonesby Avenue.. He later went to Gateway and Ann went to English Martyrs
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Lovely to meet a Kerry lady from the same county as myself - Danny Cahillane
ReplyDeleteThat's wonderful:exactly what I was hoping would happen this evening.
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