Memories Of Oak Street

A Memory of Gilfach Goch.

Have just come back from a visit to Gilfach Goch, it looks so different now. I wonder if anyone out there remembers my late husband and I living in an old caravan at the top of Holly Street? We held some meetings for children in Moriah Chapel and later up the valley in the now defunct Calfaria (I think it was). Mrs Evans had a little shop in her parlour in Oak Street and her daughter Megan lived next door. They were so kind to us ,allowing us to have a bath in their home. I remember Megan's husband was a milkman. Across the street Mrs Bonar-Jones also had a little shop which sold clothes, she had a son called Raymond. I was able to stand at the corner of Holly Street and it is still the same patch of land. A very kind builder let us use the outside toilet in the house on the corner of Oak and Holly Street. The children of Gilfach were lovely, mischievous - but lovely. We always talked of them fondly. I wonder if any of them are reading this? We ended up in Shropshire in Whitchurch, and discovered our local chip shop owner was a Gilfach man, Malcolm Purchase.This weekend has been a very happy one for me, courtesy of my lovely daughter.