Holidays In Ogmore

A Memory of Ogmore Vale.

I never lived in Ogmore Vale but my parents and grandparents did. We went there for holidays and stayed in my grandparents house in 9 Highland Place. They were the Jones family. Grandfather was the organist and choir master at the Wesley chapel. He was a tailor by trade. My aunt was a teacher as was my mother May Jones. She was born in Nantymoel and also taught in a school there before she got married. It was always very exciting for me as a child. Life was very different with the smell of coal dust in the air, the hooter going off when the shift had ended, sheep wandering over the roads and the milk being left in a covered jug on the doorstep. The mountains were an exciting playground with the little streams flowing down. My other grandfather lived in 21 Bryn Road. That was the Nichola family. They were miners. Sadly my grandmother died before I was born.

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