Nostalgic memories of Quaker's Yard's local history

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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

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I lived in the post office in Quakers Yard. We played in the woods and collected nuts and blackberies and wimberries up the mountains. There was a conker season, a marble season . always something to do or collect. My brother Robert and I delivered groceries for Phil Jones, the manager of the Co-op. It was very hard work for a 10/11 year old. My brother passed on his duties to my cousin Ron Bailey. My mother managed to ...see more
I remember going over the Pandy for a picnic with all the family on a`Sunday afternoon. We would paddle in the stream and play hide and seek. On the way home we would stop and make daisy chains, it was wonderful.
I was born in Mary Street, Treharris in 1946. My name was Vicky Toogood then. I have great memories of Quakers Yard, hot summers, snowy winters, and never getting bored. We always had something to do, we walked for miles in the summer and slid down the icy mountain on cardboard in winter, those where the best days of my life.