My Scurlock Family

A Memory of Gilfach Goch.

I was born opposite the clinic in, I think, High Street, My dad's name was Melbourne Haig Scurlock, my mum's Ann Cleverly before marriage. My dad had TB whilst he was young so he worked in the Remploy which didn't pay very much so I only went to Hendrevorgan school for a little while before we moved to Bournemouth with my younger brother Douglas for a place with more work. Every summer holidays I remember having butterflies in my tummy going down Thomas Street, knowing my brother and I were going to be totally spoilt for a week or two by my nan Murial Scurlock, my grandad Sky and my aunty Elsie and uncle John, sadly they are dead now, only my brother and I are left. My dad died twenty odd years ago, my mother just a year ago, but I will always have happy memories of my wonderful family and my Gilfach Goch which I am proud to have been born in.

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