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Subject: [Cmn-L] Re: My snippets about Ferryside
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 08:33:15 EST


Hi Pauline,
I'll gladly send them to the members pages ( ? as well ) if
you will confirm the e-mail address to me ( I am displaying my ignorance
again about computers.... but I have sent a cheque in to join for next year !)

Thankyou, Rhodri and also Diane ( Hungate ) for your kind
comments. By way of explanation I have been writing down my version of family
history at the request of my children. The pieces I have posted have been
edited to try to cut down on the "cult of personality" that may be shining
through, but, I have tried to keep to what happened and, later, to certain
wartime events in the village. Thanks also to Darla and Joseph for their
comments...... but don't encourage me too much or I'll bore you to pieces !

Rhodri, I left Wales at the beginning of 1946 and don't
recollect seeing the scrap-heap near Swindon. Yes, of course the sea-views
were lovely from the Gower onwards, but I was fairly young and my mind was
always tuned to getting to Ferryside.
It's only taken me 14 years to get up to the time when I
left Wales due to many revisions as my older remaining relatives provide me
with extra snippets that they recall. Up to the age of five I lived in Camden
Town ( London ) but was taken to Ferryside to visit my father's cousins at
the butcher's shop. It wouldn't be appropriate for me to write in about
"London matters" to the Carmarthenshire list, so there is some lack of
continuity and background in these accounts. I am being encouraged to publish
what I've got down on paper and I must get on with more of the "history" for
my kids.

Wales will re-appear much later when I was "forced" into playing
rugby again into my forties by a rather large colleague who was a British
Lion from "London Welsh" (when they had a good team). My only comfort was
that I made him play out of position in the backs, whilst I took his place at
lock, and, out of cussedness never let him know of my Welsh grandmother,
pretending to be entirely English...... pathetic really ! He got his own
back by not letting me have tickets for the "Internationals" because I'd
shout for England. Anyway, Cymri am byth and diolch yn fawr.
Trevor

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