A memory from Donald Morrison MBE (from an edited interview with Cathie Montgomery and friends)
“….Look at Morrison’s at the Creggans there! Look at the stuff, the wagons they had! There were four horses right away. They had everything. Do you know how many staff they had over there altogether? There would be 20 of a staff. He had seven tailors; he had a tailor’s shop. You know yon house with the stair up – that was the tailor’s shop and he kept seven tailors. Then he had the grocers, a licensed grocer’s shop, the butchers and I don’t know whether he had coal or not, and then he had the big meal store; he supplied a lot of folk with their feeding stuff. He had Island Farm as well and he used to sell his fat lambs over the counter there and his old ewes.”
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