1950s
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The We Three Loggerheads is a historic inn in the picturesque Alyn valley, on the road between Mold, the county town of Flintshire, and Ruthin in Denbighshire. The inn sign as I remembered it from childhood featured the faces of three grumpy farmers, each turned away from the others (its modern replacement has lost one…
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Moel Famau was a very popular outing for cub packs; Dad was Akela of the 33rd Wavertree cub pack in the fifties and I think we went at least once a year from 1954 to 1957, and quite a few times with the Scouts after that. So many times in fact that it’s impossible to…
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A Hollytree Christmas Coming from a small Liverpool/Welsh family that grew up in Wavertree, Mum was always close to her two older brothers and by the start of the 1950s none of the family had moved more than a few miles from their terraced home in Fallowfield Road. Each of the Davies siblings (Emlyn, Geoff…
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I think we must have been in Cornwall for a fortnight considering how many trips and visits we packed in while we were there. Porthpean beach was nearest, and we also went to Newquay (where I was knocked over by one of its famed breakers which probably contributed to my lifelong “respect” for the sea)…
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