It was more or less compulsory for those studying science to go down a coal mine once a year.
What amazed me, even when I was young, was that some of these men we worked with were poets.
It's not like a fire in a house where you could run out the back
The girls would be in by 7pm but the boys went to the pub first because there was no alcohol at the dances.
That's one thing I think I should have sued the government over - it was not a job for life.
I could never get to work if I drank on a Sunday, so I made it a rule not to drink on Sunday!
He could hold a Granny Smith in either his right or left hand and he could just close it and reduce the apple to pulp,
I do remember her mentioning that speaking Welsh in school was not allowed.
We used to go to Aberavon first on about six or eight double decker buses and then back on the buses to Porthcawl for the fair in the evening.
