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Happy Days in Margam
I too can remember the things mentioned especially going to Margam Abbey and looking over the graves, we used to do things like that then. I remember the names mentioned but didn't know them well. Teresa Foster was a friend and my older sister used to work at Fosters, it is through Teresa that I am able to comment as she kindly sent me the link. I also remember the Round Chapel which was moved to what I used to know as Banana Island and is still there now. Loved the walks up Brombil Lane, attended Groes School, moved from Margam when I was 19.
Happy Times in Groes Village
Knowing where to start with the many memories that I have of Groes Village is difficult. For many years my brother and I were dispatched, from our home in Hertfordshire, for the entire school summer holiday to stay with Mansel and Martha Jones, our grandparents, at 14 Groes, Margam. There was always huge excitement over having six weeks of freedom and of being able to meet up with the friends made on previous visits – Nerys from No 15 and Brigitte who lived next door to the dairy on one side and Mr and Mrs Mainwaring on the other. I would wake up each morning enveloped in a huge feather mattress and wonder what the day would bring – a walk up Brombil to the reservoir looking for snakes and paddling in the brook on the way. Maybe we would ramble over to Morfa, over the dunes to the beach and back again seemingly miles from anywhere or would we choose to go to Margam Abbey and... Read more
Childhood Years
Groes village, my earliest memories. My first school, my lovely memories of chapel and also my very happy memories of time spent with my older sisters up Brombil Farm, where we used to call for Mrs. Maddocks to go to Sunday School. Picnics we used to have amongst the Rhodedendrons. So many happy days spent here in this village. SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO DEMOLISH. SO SAD.
West Glamorgan memories
Aberavon
We used to go there with our Sunday School years ago. There used to be sand dunes there. Me and my husband used to go courting there, we would catch a bus from our valley and watch the waves come in on the stormy nights, brill.
Bandstand in The Park
In the 1930s I lived only a few hundred yards away from the bandstand in the park (in Rice Street) and walked there so many times. A band would often play on Sunday evenings.
My Port Talbot Days
I lived in Port Talbot between 1956 and 1968. I regard it as my second home. I finished school in 1958, at Velindre Secondary Modern School. I had many jobs in Port Talbot, window cleaning, working at Corona soft drinks, the Plaza cinema, the Grand cinema, Marcroft Wagons at Forge Road, I worked on Aberavon beach in summer, and I did my own puppet shows at the old community centre in Dalton Road. I lived in Green Park Street, and in Cove Road. I remember Uncle Bryn, at the Carlton Club, frequented pubs like the Railway Tavern, the Crown, the Craddoc Arms, the Beach Hotel, the Four Winds, and the Red Dragon. I spent lots of time in Viazzani's cafe in the old Water Street. I come to Port Talbot every year, I now live in Coventry. Ah good memories. And the Plaza, I worked there too.
Great Times
I can also remember people like Billo and Vernon, Will Och, Lawrence the black, and cafes like the Corner House, Servini's, Ferrari's, Belli's fish and chips, and Viazzani's in the old Water Street. Also Johnsons factory in Henshaw Street.where I used to work. Graham Jenkins, who was the market manager, and entertainments manager on the Aberavon beach when I used to do puppet shows.
