1976 In Llanbradach

A Memory of Llanbradach.

I visited my gran and my aunts in Llanbradach twice in the early 1970s.

It was my first ever visit to Great Britain and I fell in love with the church. To someone accustomed to supermarkets, shopping from grocer to butcher to baker was like having an Enid Blyton book come true.

My sisters and I soon made friends with two of the girls who lived there, Susan and I forget the other girl's name. I can see their faces so clearly. They took us to a public swimming pool, to a cinema and to a fish and chip shop and especially under the train bridge so we could scream when the train passed overhead.

We forded your extremely cold little river, we hid under ferns on the hillside and we climbed the slopes on the other side of the valley by the train tracks.

If you are in your late 40s and remember making friends with four children from Barbados in the West Indies in the early to mid-1970s, thank you for making a wonderful summer.

Ann, Cathy, Liz and Andy

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