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A Memory- Fanny Catherine Davie

Fanny Davie was born on 21 May 1852 and died in Mumbles on 8 February 1957, aged 104.

Photo: South Wales Evening Post

WOULD you say there is over a hundred years difference in the ages of these two persons in the photo?

Fanny Catherine Davie, Mumbles, celebrates her 104th birthday. At her side is 3 year-old Michael Beynon, her great-great-grandson. Mrs. Davie is also proudly displaying a basket of fowers sent her to mark the occasion.

More: Fanny Catherine Davie A Short Family History >

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· A Clyne Castle apprentice OHMS, 1939-1945 by Eric Thomas

· A Mayals Childhood by Jill Harish née Oster

· A Norton Childhood by Pat Parker

· A Present From Mumbles by Carol Powell

· A selection of articles by Grafton Maggs

· A Thistleboon Childhood by Hilary Mackenzie

· A wartime Childhood, Mumbles, 1940-1947 by Larry Owen

· A Wartime Christmas 1940 by Kate Jones

· A Young Man's War by Peter Dover-Wade

· After the Armistice in 1918 by Esther May Flowers Edwards

· All Five of us Boys by John Jeffers

· American GIs in Mumbles, Swansea & Gower

· An Edwardian Child by Kitty Horsley (nee Ladd)

· An Exile Looks Back by Mary Newey (née Nicholson)

· An Outalong Childhood by Margie Bowden (nee Jenkins)

B

· BILLY the Swan by Elaine Symmons nee Bladen

· Boatmen and their Boats by Harry Ward

C

· Caswell Bay in 1857 by E. E.

· Caswell Valley Septembers by Barbara Fisher

· Childhood memories of a Nonarian by Olive Gluyas nee Whale

· Christmas in Mumbles between the Wars by Grafton Pearce Maggs

· Clyne Castle: Thomas Beckett, a Man of two Eras by Hayden Griffiths

D

· Dads Army at Ashleigh Road, Swansea

· Days out at Bracelet Bay by Carol Powell M.A.

· Donkeys, Geese and Broken Eggs: newton between the Wars by Harry Mathias

E

· Echoes of Victorian Mumbles by Carol Powell

· Edwardian Days at the Seaside by Carol Powell M.A.

· Edwardian Picnics and Bathing Machines by Gwladys Ferris and Archie Webborn

· Everyday Life on Mumbles Coastguard Station 1930 & 1940s by Bet Ogbourne & Pat Symmons

F

· Father's Lunch by Hilary Lewis

· Forte's Ice-cream Parlour: Celebrating 80 Years


Village Lane

Going shopping

M

· Madam Stockton presents by Bernard Stockton

· Memoirs of a Victorian Girl by Annie Sarah Catterall

· Memories of Life at Clyne Castle by Eric Thomas

· Memories of Life at Oystermouth Vicarage by Anne Ardouin

· Memories of Mumbles in the 1840s by Lewis Rees

· Memories of Oystermouth School by Michael Charles

· Memories of the Mumbles Train 1807 - 1960 edited: Carol Powell

· Memories of Visits to Bracelet Bay by Carol Powell MA

· MUMBLES is a place and a very pretty one too by Stephen Yolland

· Mumbles Parlour Shops by Hazel Hickson (nee Arnold)

· Mumbles Schooldays in the 1960s and 70s by Michael Charles

· Mumbles-A Very Special Place by Hazel Kniveton

· Mumbles Calling - Mumbles Calling by Kate Jones

· Mumbles Junior Church School, 1958 by Denise Large

· Mumbles welcomed the Sussex Regiment: a collection

My abiding memories of Mumbles by Mike Finlayson

· My Earliest Memory of my father by Cynthia Clapton

· My Early Childhood in Newton by Peter Howell

· My Early Days by Edna Davies

· My first day at Grange School by Carol Powell

· My First Public Performance by Bill Morgan

· My First Sight of Mumbles by Tony Cook

· My Life at Mumbles Coastguard Station by John Jeffers

· My life in the ATS on an Ack Battery

· My Memories of Grandpa Maslen by Joyce Ellis (nee Maslen)

· My mother, an Air Raid Warden at Thistleboon by Michael Llewellyn

· My Mumbles in the 1920s by Joan Jones

· My Oystermouth Family by Stuart Eley

· My Rainbow Wedding in the Snow by Barbara Fisher

· My Seventeenth Birthday by Joyce Ellis (nee Maslen)

· My Story: from the autobiography of Esther May Flowers Edwards

· My Summer Days at Langland Bay in the Fifties by John Powell

. My Uncle: Jack Dickens by Patsy Graham

N

· Newton Primary School at Nottage Road by Michael Charles

· Ninety Years of Mumbles Life by Audrey Strawford

· Norton Limekilns by Marion Garnett

· Nostalgia by Bryn Balsdon

· Nurse Lloyd's Rescue from Drowning at Caswell by Carol Powell MA

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The Shelter, Rotherslade

Dickslade, Southend,

P

· Post-war Mumbles - 1945 to 1955 by Audrey Vincent

· Pre-war Sunday School days by Doris Clewett Price (nee Davies)

R

· Recollections of a Japanese Prisoner of War by Gwynne Hodge

· Recollections of the 1947 Lifeboat Disaster: three memories

· Remembering Our Mumbles Railway by Carol Powell

· Remnants of Home Front Defence from the Last War by John Powell

S

· Sam Gammon, my Great-grandfather, in the 1930s by Ralph Wood

· Saturday Mornings in the Fifties by Carol Powell M.A.

· Schooldays and Holidays Between the Wars by John Jeffers

· Shopping in Edwardian Mumbles by Carol Powell M.A.

· So what did we do for kicks? by Anne Ardouin (nee Wilkinson)

· Soldiers in Mumbles from ARP to Yanks: four short memories

· Someone stole Grannie’s railings by Barbara Fisher

· Spring time at Marepool by Trevor Jenkins

T

· Taking in Visitors at Promenade Terrace by Elaine Symmons

· The 1903 Mumbles Lifeboat Disaster by Fred Gammon

· The 1947 Mumbles Lifeboat Disaster: a collection of memories

· The American G.I's arrived: a collection of memories

· The American GIs in Swansea by Jim Owen

· The Bikers of Mumbles shops by Woodrow Honey

· The changing Southend shoreline by John Powell

· The Church School in Dunns Lane by Michael Charles

· The day a schooner was washed ashore by Maisie Harris

· The Day Oranges Arrived at Rotherslade by Ralph Wood

· The day the gas masks arrived by Hazel Hickson

· The Games we played by Grafton Pearce Maggs

· The Mumbles Lifeboat Disaster Remembered by Bill Barrington

· The Mumbles Lifeboat Disaster Remembered by Carl Smith

· The Mumbles Lifeboat in War-time by Tom Ace

· The Mumbles Mile, Victorian Style by Harry Libby

· The Saturday Tuppenny Tradition by Grafton Maggs

· They are giving away free ice-cream at Forte's by Grafton Maggs

· Thistleboon Orphanage: extracts from the autobiography of Amy Winters (nee King)

· Thomas Beckett: Head Gardener of Clyne Castle by Haydn Griffiths

V

· VE Day and VJ Day Parties by Kate Elliott Jones

· Village Schooldays by Grafton Pearce Maggs

· Visits to Grandma at Leslie House, Dunns Lane by J Tegman

· Visits to Mrs. Drage's Cottage by Carol Powell MA

· Visits to Nan in Mumbles by Julie Meredith

· VJ Day 1945 by a Prisoner of the Japanese: Gwynne Hodge

W

· We Remember our Yank Herbert Sanborn

· Walks along the Cliff Path from the autobiography of Freda Marrison

· Wartime Memories by Betty Sivertsen

· What has happened to The Tivoli Cinema? by John Powell

· When the American GIs arrived: a collection of memories

· William Horwood Lewis, A First World War Veteran by Mark Lewis

· William Robert SNEAD remembers D Day

· Winkles for Tea by Barbara Fisher

· Working at The Regent and the Tivoli cinemas by Woodrow Honey

Promenade Terrace
Forte's

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