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I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU

Written by Joan Collins
Published by Penarth Past Oral History Group in 1999
ISBN: 0953701409

I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU
Written by Joan Collins.
Stock no. 1701831
1st. 1999. Hardback. Very good condition.

A Scrapbook of Fifty Years of Change in Penarth, from members of Penarth Past Oral History Group. Part 1: Absent Friends. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 0953701409. Name in ink to front endpaper. Some pencil annotation.

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Front cover

Cover of I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU by Joan Collins

Contents

  • Scrapbook Part One
  • Absent Friends - People
  • A letter from Penarth Past to two pioneers, Roy Thorne and E. Alwyn Benjamin
  • 1 Ray the Paint (Rosemary Howard Jones)
  • 2 A Man of Talents (John Morel Gibbs OBE)
  • 3 The Headmistress (Katherine Hughes)
  • 4 The Lancashire Lass (Kathleen Evans OBE, JP)
  • 5 'Ben' (E. Alwyn Benjamin)
  • 6 Please Sir (Roy Thorne)
  • 7 Con Found It (Constance Meillard B.E.M)
  • 8 Dinner Lady (Dorothy Hood B.E.M.)
  • 9 A Man of Integrity (F.J.L. 'Eric 'Gribble)
  • 10 Chairs Aplenty (W. R. 'Bill' Jeffcott CBE, JP)
  • 11 In Tune (Frank Lock)
  • 12 Taxi! (Charlie Barnett)
  • 13 The Lollipop Man (Billy Maggs)
  • Absent Friends - Places
  • 14 Blown Away (Christchurch)
  • 15 House of Mystery (Llandaff House)
  • 16 Would You Have ..? (Davison's, Ironmongers)
  • 17 The Light House (Vinings Royal Building)
  • 18 Three Generation in One Shop (Saddlers Fruiterers)
  • 19 Boots boots boots (Baggett's Shoe Shop, Windsor Road)
  • 20 All Gone (Esplanade Hotel)
  • 21 Say Cheese (L'Epicerie Fine, Glebe Street)
  • 22 Say It With Flowers (Charles Jones, Florist, Albert Road), Cold Fingers (Rosalie Owen)
  • 23 Tuppenny Rice (Going to the Grocers)
  • 24 Ours Is a Nice House (The Highlands Camp, Llandough)
  • 25 Timber! (Price Brothers Joinery, Station Road)
  • 26 The Unbelievable (The day the sea froze - or did it?)
  • Letter to the Young People in Penarth
  • Acknowledgements