Family From Gurney Slade

A Memory of Gurney Slade.

My father's family was from Gurney Slade. His father was Alfred and his mother was Helen. Alfred was a gardener at a 'big house' - so I was told - before he moved to South Wales for work in the mining industry. My father, Reginald James, was born in Wales within a very short time of their removal there in November 1908. My father took us on holiday to the west country sometimes, and I remember calling at the post office in Gurney Slade in the mid-50s. My dad asked a postman if anyone in the village was called Hill, and the postman replied, 'too bloody many'!

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