FM Conway - Going the Extra Mile

Chapter 1 Early Days

only form of transport that they had on the farm was an old bicycle, which they shared between them. The tyres had perished long ago and, since they couldn’t afford any new ones, they simply took the old ones off, and continued to use the bicycle without any tyres at all. So, when Frank set off to the ports in Belfast, he didn’t have any cash, but he did have something else to help him pay his way. To this

The earliest picture I have of Dad: on a motorbike with a friend (name unknown) sitting behind him.

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