I used to live at 33 Gorse Avenue, Vale of Swansea. I remember Swansea being bombed and during the blitz, I was in an air raid shelter and my father was like an R.P going around.

After the blitz we were evacuated to Abercrave and we stayed in the Mansion House. The Morgans family owned it and we stayed there for a few weeks and then my mother come and took us back home. We were lucky where we stayed because our accommodation had their own servants and they had their own chauffeur and took us to church every Sunday morning. We used to visit the Astoria cinema down in Ystradglynlais.

When I came back to Swansea things had died down a bit, but it was still hair-raising. We were in school sometimes and there would be an air raid, we used to go under the school to the boiler house.

I played for the Swansea Schoolboys, the same team as John Charles, 1945-1946, for a season. When the war ended we had street parties, everybody was singing and dancing in the street and everything and having a really good time, everybody was glad to see it all over, I suppose.

We have reunions and I went to the last one, I was the only one from Swansea. Two sisters from Liverpool had written to 'The Evening Post', and they organised a reunion at Abercrave Miners' Welfare Hall.