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Hi, I lived here in 1950s in the mews flat next to the big house. My mother and father worked there, my mother as cook and housekeeper and my father as a driver and butler. It was then owned by the Warmans, there ...Read more

A memory of Salwarpe in 1950 by Derek Haydon

I was born in the midlands in 1945. When I was a young girl my father used to take me to my mother's relatives, namely the Pikes at 6 Hastings Gardens, New Hartley, I used to play with a boy named Bryn Pike. Over the ...Read more

A memory of New Hartley in 1953 by Shannette Lappage

My maternal great grandparents lived in Llwyn near the church in Rhiwlas. They - Thomas and Elizabeth Jones - are buried in Llansilin Churchyard with their son Lloyd Jones who was, I believe, the last ...Read more

A memory of Rhiwlas by Shirley Jones

Llansilin should be the setting for a film or TV serial given the dramatic events that have occured there in relatively recent history. My mother was born in Llansilin in the 1920s and regales me with stories of sad ...Read more

A memory of Llansilin by Shirley Jones

Can anyone remember Arthur Lord as the publican at the The Market Inn? Also in the Fore Street shops just up from the Market Inn there was Mrs Boynes, Florist, and a Gas Shop which was run by Mr Frank Nettles. These ...Read more

A memory of St Blazey in 1944 by Des Sturges

I remember the shopkeepers; Rees Jones & Fred Palmer (the butcher) also Sgt Brace at the Police Station. I also have very fond memories of the Bedwellty Show and the ink stamps on your hand to let you back ...Read more

A memory of Cefn by Anwen Parry

We moved to Swffryd from Six Bells where we lived with my grandparents. My family; Thomas Griffiths (Dad,) Iris Griffiths (Mam,) and myself Gareth Griffiths moved into a brand new built 2 bedroom flat in 19A Bron-y-Bryn (now ...Read more

A memory of Swffryd in 1953 by Julie Griffiths

My parents married in this church in 1951, mum had been brought up in the village from birth by her parents (David and Gwen Bowen) and after marrying my dad, moved up to Sheffield. It was a quaint village ...Read more

A memory of Ferryside in 1973 by Emma Bennett

I was born in 54 Mountain Row to Richard and Mary Jane Tustin. I remember Blaenllechau as one huge playground and when someone asked you where you lived, you always said "up the Top" it was a magic place where the ...Read more

A memory of Blaenllechau in 1955 by Vincent Tustin

I remember when I was a child my parents would bring us to Cwm to visit my mothers birth place. She is Rhian Lewis, born in 1948, sister Ann and brother Bryn. I spent many an hour climbing the slate covered mountains. We ...Read more

A memory of Cwm by Gayle Odare