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You can add more memories here. Please contact us!A Wartime Christmas 1940 by Kate Jones
A Wartime Christmas 1940 by Kate Jones ... 'Saturday 30 November 1940: Took Bayney, Sylvia and Essie to Swansea for Christmas shopping .
Christmas in Mumbles between the Wars by Grafton Pearce Maggs
Christmas in Mumbles between the Wars by Grafton Pearce Maggs ... So, Christmas day would gradually draw to a close ...
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas … by Kate Jones
"I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas …" by Kate Jones ... “After a period of intense cold since Christmas rain fell yesterday and froze as it fell ...
Glimpses of Mumbles Christmasses Past edited by Carol Powell
... Glimpses of Mumbles Christmasses Past Edited by Carol Powell Christmas is a time of celebrating the Nativity with family and friends, but also for ...
The Mumbles Horses Head - The Mari Lwyd Marjorie Bowden nee Jenkins
... It was one of a series of ritual entries to the home, which took place at Christmas and New Year, and was one variant of wassailing ...
Mumbles Calling - Mumbles Calling by Kate Jones
... CHRISTMAS LETTERS 1939 - 1945 Successful letter writing is something of an art at the best of times; and this was probably the worst of times ...
The Home of The Good Shepherd and Eastmoor Nursery
... JUST ONE MORE STIR FOR LUCK With only a week to go to Christmas, Miss Marjorie Watson, of Eastmoor Nursery, Bishopston, has quite a ...
Thistleboon Orphanage: extracts from the autobiography of Amy Winters (nee King)
... With Christmas approaching, Thistleboon was caught up in an atmosphere of happiness and excitement ... I always believed in Father Christmas ...
Libby's Letters to the Forces: 1939 - 1945 reviewed by Carol Powell MA
... No one is more homesick than at Christmas and he must surely have brought a little Mumbles Cheer to those faraway as he described 'that shops ...
Mari Lwyd - a skull in the ribbons of a bride by Beverley Rogers
... bells, holly and ivy - the apparition sounds like it should be the stuff of Halloween, but it is in fact a tradition carried out between Christmas Day and ...
Childhood memories of a Nonarian by Olive Gluyas nee Whale
... At Christmas time, some women made their Christmas cakes at home and I can remember accompanying my friends to Allen's, the Baker at the ...
Living above the Shop, The Dunns 1916-1950 by Sylvia Bagley
... Smells evoke memories of that time, for me – especially of fish, and of Christmas puddings ... Mother used to make six or seven Christmas puddings ...
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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)
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· BILLY the Swan by Elaine Symmons nee Bladen
· Boatmen and their Boats by Harry Ward
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· 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
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· 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
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· 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
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· Father's Lunch by Hilary Lewis
· Forte's Ice-cream Parlour: Celebrating 80 Years
Village Lane
Going shopping
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· Ghostly goings on at Llwynderw by Dave Richards
· Glimpses of Mumbles Christmasses Past edited by Carol Powell
· Going to the Tiv by Grafton Maggs
· Gran Was A Lady's Maid by Sue Barr
· Grandpa Darling by Maisie Harris
· Grandpa was a Grocer by Carol Powell
· Great War Veteran: Will John by Joan Jones (née Marshall)
· Growing up in Summerland Lane, Newton by Peter Holbrook
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· High Tide Tonight by Grafton Maggs
· Hiraethu: (to long for) by Richard Savours
· Holidays at Milland’s Field, Summerland Lane by Ron Fisher
· Holidays at Rams Tor, near Langland Bay by Joan Gleig
· Holidays in Blackpill by Sandra Haynes
· How lucky was I to grow up in Mumbles by Julia Young
· How Two Sea Tragedies Affected Me by Joyce Hewett
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· I Remember Oystermouth School by Jan Spooner nee Tucker
· I served in the WRNS at Mumbles Coastguard Station by Joan Jones
· In the Street where I lived, Woodville Road by Malcolm Snell
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· Life in a Prefab at West Cross
· Life in Mumbles Church School 1935-1946 by Ralph Wood
· Life with the American GIs at Port Eynon
· Life with the Vivians by Iris David
· Lilliput Bay by Jenny Secombe
· Lilliput Hall: Its Life and Times by Carol Powell
· Living above the Shop, The Dunns 1916-1950 by Sylvia Bagley
Mumbles steam Train at Southend Station, 1922
Caswell Bay
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· 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
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· Newton Primary School at Nottage Road by Michael Charles
· Ninety Years of Mumbles Life by Audrey Strawford
· Norton Limekilns by Marion Garnett
· Nurse Lloyd's Rescue from Drowning at Caswell by Carol Powell MA
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The Shelter, Rotherslade
Dickslade, Southend,
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· Post-war Mumbles - 1945 to 1955 by Audrey Vincent
· Pre-war Sunday School days by Doris Clewett Price (nee Davies)
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· 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
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· 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
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· 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
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· 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
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· 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
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