Postcards from Llanwnnen
Last updated: 25 January 2007
Sally Jones and Dai Pugh run the local Post Office in Llanwnnen near Lampeter. They brought a selection of old post cards, which they found at the Post Office to the BBC Wales Bus when it visited the village on 25 January 2007. Click through the images below to view a fascinating picture of the village's past...
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Glyn Jenkins, Cardiff
My father's family lived in the village for many years (Joshua Jenkins) and his brother was drowned in the Grannell. I haven't visited as often as I would like and don't recall seeing these postcards.
Fri May 11 10:25:04 2007
David Curtis
This postcard is not familiar to me, but I have family photos taken in Llanwnnen at widely separated times: the mid-twenties and the late nineties. One of them, taken in 1927, shows my great-grandfather's cottage near a signpost pointing to Lampeter. My maternal grandfather, David Davies, was born in the village, but died in Barry, Glamorgan, in 1907. My mother, Mona, was then ten and, because she and her siblings had to be dispersed, went to live with her grandfather, Thomas Davies, whose grave is behind the Unitarian church. She was enrolled in the local school, where children were obliged! to speak English as a first language, whereas she wanted to speak Welsh like them. One summer, forty years later, I drove her to the village and as the school was being painted we were able to walk in and meet the headmaster, who lived next door. I was teaching French, subsidised by the Nuffield Foundation, in a Somerset primary school at the time, and seeing "Nuffield" textbooks on the shelves, commented that the children must be learning French. "Oh,no!" said the head, "English is our second language here!" So there had been a complete reversal of policy since my mother's day!
Tue Mar 6 14:08:39 2007
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