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ON THIS DAY: 6th May 1942 THE FIRE AT LARKIN’S BAKERY

ON THIS DAY: 6th May 1942 THE FIRE AT LARKIN’S BAKERY
May 6, 2016 by Kieran Kelly 0 comments

At approximately 1am on Wednesday May 6th 1942, postman Willie John Kelly woke up from his residence at 82 Lower Main Street, to smell a fire burning next door in Larkin’s Bakery. Frank Larkin, son of the former Town Clerk, John G. Larkin, had opened the bakery nine years previously, three doors up from the

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