WE REMEMBER IT WELL
Written by Joan Collins
Published by Penarth Past Oral History Group
in 1995
ISBN: 1872808360
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WE REMEMBER IT WELL
Written by Joan Collins.
Stock no. 1610506
1st.
1995.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
A Patchwork of Personal Recollections of Penarth. Glazed boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 1872808360. Some uneven fading to boards. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper.
WE REMEMBER IT WELL
Written by Joan Collins.
Stock no. 807370
1st.
1995.
Hardback.
Fine condition.
A Patchwork of Personal Recollections of Penarth. Glazed boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 1872808360. SIGNED by author.
Front cover
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Don't Skip This - It's Important (Preface)
- Foreword by D. John m. Gibbs
- RECOLLECTIONS
- 1. A Look at the Map - Changes in the appearance of Penarth
- 2. The Dear Dead Days - Harry Marin remembers the Docks when active
- 3. "When that I was" - Memories of Childhood 1904 onwards
- 4. The Shining Morning Face - Going to School in the 1920's and 30's
- 5. The Lover and his Lass - Memories of growing up, courting and marriage
- 6. Toil and Trouble - Earing a living in the "Good old Days"
- 7. Cakes and Ale - Time off - but not much of it
- 8. Abstracts and Brief Chronicles of our Time - Food, clothes, houses, medical care, "being on the parish" work of the "Relieving Officer"
- 9. Grasp the Nettle Danger - Memories of World War II, The Home Front, "Those in peril on the sea" and on land
- 10. We're Still Here! - A few thoughts on current problems, 'Memories' a poem by Dorothy Owen of Penarth Past
- 11. The Other End of the Town
- i Memories especially recorded for Penarth Past by Mr. Edward Granger and Mrs. Mary Findlay, Dr. John and Mrs. Sheila Gibbs
- ii "The unashamed volunteer", Constance Maillard's reflections on e60 years of voluntary work for Penarth (transcript of lecture given when 97)
- 12. A Last Word From: - Professor M.S. J. Pathy, Research Director, Health Care Research Unit, Newport