Mumbles’ Unofficial Memorial

One of the famous Libby’s letters > on 28 October 1941, recalled that-

Mrs. Todd would like to be remembered to 100s of the local boys who know and respect her. Last war, she collected photos of the folk in the forces and had them in frames in her shop. She is repeating the idea and three large frames are full of faces. Some people think the blokes in the last war were better looking.

 The displays were gradually and tragically transformed into spontaneous tributes for those who had been killed.

Mumbles Remembers The Great War 1914 - 18 >

Nanna Todd was a tall, thin, white-haired bespectacled lady, who was said to be ‘a good age’ in the 1920s. Some of her customers were the local ‘boys’, who were in the habit on a Sunday evening, of sitting on a bench in her shop, to socialise and enjoy her home-made ice cream. Perhaps this could partly explain her practice of displaying the photographs of ‘her boys’, who became local war casualties.

Margaret Ann Todd died in 1950 aged 91 years.