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This story is from Alice Tannahill, and has been added to the site with her permission by Bruce Logan. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
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Things remembered by Alice Tannahill about the II World War hardships.

During the War there were shortages of everything but as 鈥淭he South鈥� was not involved in war they had no shortages or rationing. We would drive to Magilligan Point and take a small boat across Lough Foyle to Greencastle the nearest harbour. There we would buy Cooked Ham, tins of peaches, butter, sugar, tobacco and cigarettes. We had ration books for almost everything but these coupons would buy very little. The last time I went over to Greencastle the sea was very very rough and we all thought we would drown, especially when the boats engine stopped. We had to hide any purchases on our persons as the Customs Officers could be waiting for us on our return and sometimes we were almost caught.

My husband and his brother went over to Donegal for two days to visit friends, and they took the car, one of the few cars in this area. They had bought cigarettes and tobacco plus a few other items and they were stopped by the Customs men and lost everything and almost lost the car, so that was the end of us going across the Border. We would have shared the food we brought with some of the poor neighbours who had little money.

Greencastle was not a very big place and occasionally we would take a taxi or hire car to Moville which was a larger town and had more shops.

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