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Beulah Land....
I was born in the schoolhouse in 1943 and lived there until 1957. My early memories go back to the firing of a huge gun in the field opposite by the Army, with the shells aimed to reach Plynlimon near Abersystwyth! Then in 1947 there was the prolonged snow which paralysed transport and bread was brought from Garth by my uncle via his Fordson tractor following its delivery by train. I remember a large branch of a tree cracking off under the weight of snow when my father and I went out for a walk through the high drifted snow. Other memories were the building of our bungalow/ the harvesting/ sheep shearing/ Eisteddfods/ Youth Club and going by bus to the Cinema in Builth Wells.
My Early Days Around Llanwrtyd Wells.
I arrived in Llanwrtyd Wells around 1947. I was 9 years old. My father Douglas Gimson had come on before us in 1946 to work in the Cambrian Factory as he was a disabled ex-Prisoner of War. I arrived with my mother Eileen and young brother Ronald. We had travelled up from the Rhondda Valley in the back of a vehicle with bits of furniture and belongings. The difference then between the Valleys and Llanwrtyd Wells was out of this world, the area around Llanwrtyd being so beautiful and clean I just thought I was on another planet. Dad had found and prepared a derelect terraced house for us about a mile or so outside Llanwrtyd in a place called Irfona. The house was in a beautiful position overlooking the River Irfon and the background of that was Spien Cop, I just wish there were some photographs of that area available. Our neighbours to be were wonderful people and well-known characters to the area - Kitty, Gweny, Daisy, Hope and... Read more
Land of my Fathers, Davies Roots!
My great grandparents were William Davies and Sarah Price, and they married at Gelynos Chapel in 1863. Sarah's father's farm was called Tynmaes, and at Tyllosg and then in Dole House, now called Arosfa. I would love to find anyone to whom this means anything! William & Sarah still lived in Dole House in 1911. I live in New Zealand, but have visited the Town twice.
Hopefully, Viv!
Brick Making in BRECON
My husband was born in Wales and is a descendant of farming stock going back to the 1700s, but it's only since retiring to Devon that he started Family History. It seems that his grandmother's parents were born and raised in Devon as agricultural labourers. They were the Blake family who moved to 4 Glancelle, Llanafan Fawr in the 1870s. He then strangly became a brick maker. His last child Edith Louisa Brake was born in Brecon in 1879. Now having researched part of his maternal side my husband then went on to his great-grandmother Elizabeth Brake whose maiden name was Lennard, again a Devon family, to find that at approximately the same time they had upped sticks and moved to Wales, Brecon no less. The brother-in-law, John Lennard, had several children so in total about 14 of them moved into the area. Two of his daughter had the following jobs: Charlotte Brake aged 15 was a general servant to the Powell family, corn merchants and farmer, address Garth Mill,... Read more
Four Children
First Nine years of my life in this little village. Four Children in all lived here, my Brother and I .the Ministers Son, and the small girl in the shop.
The Village has not changed much over the 50 years since I left.
Most of the old people have died now . Gosen Chapel Where I went to Sunday School still stands, And my Parents are interned there.
Happy days at home in LLyngwesion long hot summer days and dark winters
(no street lights) fond memories
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