Still waiting on book delivery, every day I have a wee juke in the letterbox but am disappointed.

Monday is Rosenmontag here and Tuesday is the last day of Fasching (Carnival) then the 6 weeks Fasting up to Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. It is also a day to enjoy here with fish being sold everywhere in restuarants as tradation. Still remember being taught that it was obligation in the Catholic Church to receive Communion between Ash Wednesday and Trinity Sunday. Wonder if that is still practiced?
donald

I just added the book to the Lisburn Amazon store - you can find it here http://lisburn.com/shop/lisburn-amazon-shop.html (we get a small commission if you follow the link to buy something from the store - helps with hosting costs!)

Darryl

Lambeg book arrived yesterday, lots of intersting facts about thje region, can only reccomend it.
donald

Donald ,I enjoyed the book very much ,it was very interesting how all the large industrial family members married through each other you would think they were arranged marriages, the photograph of Forthill House caught my eye which is now the school and then was the residence of one of the Barbour family ,during the war the estate was an army camp and the house was the officers quarters I remember the Belgian army installed there also a Welsh regiment spent a period in it ,our house was next to the camp and overlooked the Nissan huts which housed squaddies ,we always referred to the estate as Healey's and the orchard as well which we regularly visited it was attended by a watchman named Crone who made us take flight on numerous occasions, great days the innocence of youth!Regards Ted

Ted
I remember the huts facing Victory St. before the new houses were built, they were also army huts during the WW11 I was told and then they were allocated to families. One of them was a shop where we used to buy fireworks at Halloween.
donald

I remember them well they faced on to the Low Rd , there was a shop in the complex and I remember Kevin and Tommy Corken living there with there family, also John Roy who drove either for Gordon's or Barbour's and Tommy Castles and his family to name a few Donald its hard to take in now that those x army huts were better than the accommodation these family's were living in previous, and this was seen as an upgrade,

Checked Amazon just now and the book is as expensive as €45!!! I got a bargain on ebay for €10,20, second hand but in excellent condition. My Scottish anscestry ( McDonald) keeps coming through!
donald

Just had a "blast from the past" reading the Lambeg Book. During and/or after WW11 didn´t US soldiers occupy "the chains"? I seem to remember hearing that there was air raid shelters built behind it in the garden. Another story was that it once was a Monastray occupied by Nuns?