For anyone who knows my Father, you know he has the gift of the gab, which is defined as the ability to speak easily and confidently in a way that makes people want to listen to you and believe you. He is quite the entertainer! This blog is being started to record his memories of family and friends through the MANY, MANY photos he has taken throughout the years. Beginning with black and white slides, to coloured slides, to printed photos, and finally to the digital age. I'd like to be able to keep this in chronological order, but with as many photos as there are, and as they are in such a hodgepodge state, it makes it rather difficult. This will be written as though he's writing it, because he really will be! I'm just moving it over here so it will actually get posted and not "lost" out there. So here we go!

Friday 6 May 2022

August Bank Holiday 1960

I found these photographs which Mom had painstakingly pasted in a book. I would not remove them and photographed each one independently.

August Bank Holiday week 1960, we traveled overnight from Braintree to Wales. No small achievement in those days as there were no motorways.
We had only known each other two weeks before going on holiday to Wales. Mom fell in love with Wales and it
had a special place in her heart.
(The full story of this visit is here, in an earlier post.)


Chepstow before crossing over into Wales.


Grannie Loughor, Uncle Merth, and a neighbour. We had breakfast, unpacked, and headed to the Gower.


The castle at Three Cliffs Bay.




Care for a cuppa?





Rest Bay, Porthcawl



My cousin Margaret & Vernon, who drove us to Porthcawl with Auntie Blod.





There are always strong winds at Porthcawl.


Coney Island Fun Fair.
Margaret was seven months pregnant with Ruth.



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