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When the war started in 1939 my was 11 years old. She lived with her mother and father, three sisters and one brother on a farm in Ballycastle. The farm produced milk, eggs and vegetables and they churned their own butter which people used to queue for, from early morning, as everything was rationed.
At night, when she checked on the animals she carried a tilly lamp which had to be covered with a cloth, in case the Germans flying overhead would see the light.
The windows also had to be blacked out or you would be fined.
My granny remembers her dad being fined twice. The first fine was 10 shillings and the second fine was 15 shillings.
An evacuee boy from Belfast worked on a neighbouring farm, but stayed in my granny’s house. When the war had ended in 1945, the evacuee’s dad took him back to Belfast.

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