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Abergorlech, the Bridge 1950
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 Talley, Lakes and Abbey 1936 (ref: 87713) |
Year: 1964
My family memories A memory of Talley, Dyfed My great grandparents, John and Margaret Williams, lived at Llansadwrn and they and my grandparents are buried in the Church Yard at Talley. My grandparents, Evan and Florence (Dolly) Williams lived at Dan y Graig. Many happy days spent there with them in the 60's. My grandmother worked very hard to make ends meet as unfortunately my grandfather, who had seen active service in the trenches during the first world war, had been badly scarred by his experiences and sadly drank to excess. I believe that my grandfather, an ex policeman, was the village postman at some stage. I have visited Talley recently and the old road around to the church is still as I remember it, but sadly as with many other lovely old villages, a horrible big road runs through the middle of it. My grandparents were very friendly with "Annie Cwmdu" who ran the pub and we used to visit her a lot. Oh such happy days..... Posted: 10/20/2006 16:39 by Mary Owen |
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Year: 1957
A very big step A memory of Huntworth, Somerset My wife and I went to Caio some 6 months after we married. I was recalled into the army 2 days after our wedding due to the Sues crisis although I was only away from home for 4 months it was long enough for me to loose my job and so soon after the Sues crisis there was a lot of unemployment and I was the end of the queue. After some weeks we were offered three jobs with the Forestry Commission. One at Newcastle Emeyn , one at Llanwrtyd Wells, and one at Caio. Not having any idea where any of these places were we struck for Caio probably because we could spell and pronounce Caio easier than the others. Came the day of the move, the little bit of furniture we had left in one of Pickfords vans the night before followed by us in father-in-law’s little A35 car early the next morning. A very heavy pregnant wife in the front and mother-in-law and me squeezed in the back as we headed for the unknown. What would we find? We found Caio, a place that at that time was not on most maps. On the plus side lovely village with lovely people. On the minus they all spoke Welsh. On our arrival we were met by our next door neighbour Mrs Davis and her husband W R Davis always known as W R he was a foreman with the commission. Mrs Davis welcomed us all with a hot dinner. [Enough to feed an army] and treated us as if she had known us for years while W R and friends unloaded what furniture we had. There were a lot of charaters living in the village then people like Willy Tom Rees. Rees the blacksmith, to name just two. Our son David was born in Llandovery hospital on the 10th of May of that year and we started our real family life, but by September the following year we had had enough of those hills and that Language and to be quite honest I think we became lonely for our friends and family. Anyway much to the pleads of Mrs Davis to stay we left and returned to the South of England where we still live to this day. We go back as much as we can from time to time and stay with Gina Jones. the last of our long lost friends still living there now. A couple of days is enough but it seems much closer now we have the M4 motorway & the bridge we hurry along to get home. George Larbey Posted: 1/11/2008 16:06 by George Larbey |
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Year: 1944
CHILDREN OF THE WAR A memory of Lampeter, Dyfed MY BROTHER AND I WERE EVACUATED TO LAMPETER IN JULY OF 1944 COMING FROM LONDON AS OUR HOUSE WAS BOMBED. WE WERE TAKEN IN BY MARY AND JOHN POWELL IN "BARLEY MOW". EVEN THOUGH THESE WERE TRYING TIMES FOR OUR PARENTS, IT WAS THE HAPPIEST TIME OF MY CHILDHOOD. AUDREY [LATTER] VOELKER Last edited: 8/21/2007 14:31 by Audrey Voelker |
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Year: 1959
Growing up in Caerbryn A memory of Caerbryn, Dyfed I was born in Caerbryn in 1949 and I lived at 4 Caerbryn Terrace along at that time with my granny and grandad, mum and dad and my sister Gill who is thirteen months older than me. The terrace was then just the twenty houses and we knew all of our neighbours. In 1951 the twins Malcom and Judith were born, 1957 Caroline was born and in 1958 Ricahrd was born. I have happy memories of growing up there as we were free to play outside as we grew up. We used to climb up the Old Colliery tip, go down the Felin in the summer time and run about in the fields. But today all those features are gone as when the Open Cast Miming company came to caerbryn in the 1970s ormaybe later the Tip disappeared, the felin disappeared and the field became a football pitch. Happy memories though Posted: 9/15/2007 11:13 by First Name Last Name |
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Year: 1994
Ffoselig Farm A memory of Huntworth, Somerset Lived on a wonderful farm. The Welsh farmer living there still to this day runs this farm which has been in his family for generations. Would love to go back there again. Very fond memories of hay making, feeding cattle and horses. A Welsh neighbour up the lane, at 87 still worked his farm and spoke very little english. A wonderful old chap! Although I do not know if he remains there. Last edited: 3/5/2008 09:03 by Victoria Curtis |
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