Darrin Wedlock shares his mother's heart-warming tales from her childhood in Shankill
Darrin's mother Sandra, who emigrated to New Zealand after growing up in Shankill, told Darrin and his brothers and sisters true stories from her childhood – from the hilarious scrapes she got into to the tragedy of the Belfast Blitz. After her death, Darrin decided that her experiences deserved to be shared.Sandra and the Flying Elephants of Belfast is an amusing, yet true story, of a young girl living in Northern Ireland during the Second World War, who is given the task of looking after her younger brother Billy by her father before he leaves to fight in northern Europe.
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