A Childhood in a Welsh Mining Valley

Vivian Jones

Vivian Jones recounts with great warmth his childhood in a working class family within the community of a small mining village in the Welsh Valleys in the 1930s. This fascinating book relives that time, place and culture in vivid detail and considers the continuing influence of growing up in such an environment.

ISBN: 9781784613754

Price: £9.99

Department: Biographical, Autobiography, History, Welsh History, The valleys

Format: Paperback

Language: English

No. of pages: 208

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This is a collection of reminiscences of everyday life in Garnant, a village in the anthracite coalfield of Cwm Aman in Carmarthenshire, and a meeting place between the countryside and the industrial world. These reminscences will preserve for posterity a way of life – a thoroughly Welsh way of life, both in language and culture. Vivian Jones paints a vivid picture of a specific period, and what a warm recollection of his childhood, family and neighbourhood it is. - Huw Walters, formerly Head of the Bibliography of Wales Unit, National Library of Wales

Ni allwn adael y gyfrol o'm dwylo. Darllenais hi i gyd ar un eisteddiad. Dyna y thrill i chwithau a bryna'r gyfrol am atgofion y plentyn bach a dyfodd yn ddiwynydd cyffrous ac un o hoelion wyth Muiad Cristnogaeth 21. - D Ben Rees, Yr Angor

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 My Valley
Chapter 2 My Village
Chapter 3 Three Homes
Chapter 4 School
Chapter 5 The Cinema
Chapter 6 The Chapel
Chapter 7 Tad-cu
Chapter 8 Dad
Chapter 9 The Inheritance

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Vivian Jones recounts with great warmth his childhood in a working class family within the community of a small mining village in the Welsh Valleys in the 1930s. From the all-pervading influence of chapel culture to local people's love of the cinema whose construction they had funded, the author considers the influence his background has had on who he is today. A wealth of lively anecdotes bring the detail of this time, place and culture vividly back to life.