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Joyce Wilson
"Up until that time it was almost a mark of distinction to own a wireless. I just feel it was the beginning of something."
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Joyce was about 4 years old when father asked her to come and see something he had made. It was a wireless set and for the first time in her life she heard music on the radio. Before that time she hadn't heard much music.
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Joyce also remembers the opening of the first Northern Ireland Parliament in the Belfast City Hall by King George V on 22 June 1921. She was only 3 years old at the time but clearly remembers sitting on her mother's knee by an upper window in the 'Scottish Provident' building in Donegal Square West.
Similarly she can remember in 1932, as a pupil at Bloomfield Collegiate on the upper Newtownards Road, watching the procession of Edward the Prince of Wales, when he visited Belfast in November 1932 to open the new Parliament Buildings at Stormont.
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