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My Grandparents House
My grandparents bought the second house in this picture (number 343) in the 1930s, so they were living in this house when the picture was taken (1938). Their names were Daniel and Annie Owens. When this photo was taken my mother, Gladys May Owens, lived here, she was 19. If anyone knows anything about the family or knows who took this photo then I'd love to know.
Thankyou!
Jennifer
Memory of When I Was About 5 Years Old
My parents -- Glyndwr and Georgina Jones -- both grew up in South Wales. After marrying they moved to Manchester and I was born soon after in 1950. In 1955 my mother became pregnant with my brother Glynne, and I was sent to live with my Nana and Dadcu -- Gwenllian and Dau Jones -- in Peniel Green for the duration.
My Nana's sister, my (great) Auntie Sal, owned and ran Llansamlet's cross-roads corner grocery shop and cafe: she lived up above the premises in what seemed to me at the time to be a luxurious flat. This entire dwelling was magical to me as a child. Last I looked it had been converted into a take-away joint.
My Nana and my (great) Auntie Sal had two sisters who lived nearby. My great Auntie Maggie lived -- as I recall -- in one of the houses on the left of this photo. My great Auntie Ethel lived a bit further south down the... Read more
Peniel Green
My in-laws and their relatives lived on Peniel Green Road, not Heol Las as Dr Suschnigg suggests. I married my husband in 1949 and moved to Manchester.
Many times we travelled on a motor bike from Manchester to Llansamlet, over the Brecon Beacons where the mist could be seen way below us. We used to sing at the top of our voices, probably irritating the people in Brecon - it would have been about midnight that we passed through!
I doubt that there would have been 'rubble' as a result of bombing between Auntie Sal's shop and Mamgu's house. Most of the bombing (three nights in a row) was over Swansea.
I worked in the laboratory, what was then the Anglo Iranian Oil company, until I married. In 1964 we moved to Canada.
Dr Suschnigg's memories are very touching, but we haven't seen our daughter for about fifteen years.
Sending picture of Auntie Sal's shop showing Auntie Sal, Nana and Auntie Maggie.
Samlet School
I was born in 1934 in BonyMaen. I attended the school there until it was bombed, all the kids then were bussed daily to Samlet School. I emigrated to Canada in 1967 with my husband and two boys Robert and Paul. Have not been able to find the school, has it been demolished? It would be good to hear from some old pupils of that school. I left Samlet school in 1949.
My Wonderful Childhood.
I was born and raised in Heol-las in 1938 until 1955. I now live in the U.S. since 1958. I was a member of Ainon Chapel and went every Sunday and sat with Tessa Adlam. Heol-las was a great place to live back then - the people there were wonderful. I lived at 7 Birchgrove Terrace, next door to Mary Rogers, and across the street from Adlams and the Martin's shop/Post Office. My name then was Maureen McCullough and my sister's name was Myfanwy.
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