When my father was a miner, after
right the way through it,
and was eventually
But he did survive and then came home.
There was no employment other than being
and so he went back to being a miner
Life was very hard.
My sister was 12 years older than I,
at the beginning of the First World War.
And she had a very hard life.
I was born in 1925 after the death
of several babies in between.
But I was the tough one, I think,
because I survived and was spoiled.
I think the apple
No, that's not fair.
My mother's eye, too.
And yes, after quite a hard childhood
and an interesting life, the family
was always interested in politics.
And by the late 1930s,
and he was invited
by some members of the conservative Party
to form a conservative party
I think my father must have been the only
but he did agree that he would
try to form such a union because most
of the union at the time
Not to put too fine a point on it.
But anyway, he didn't succeed.
In the meantime, my mother and I were sent
because it was a very tough campaign,
Afterwards,
find my father a job still in an iron in
all mine, but in an administrative role.
And we then lived in the Vale of Glamorgan
in a little village called Pontclean.
And there I went to a little girls
high school at Cowbridge, which was
a very good school, but very small.
And
village, but it
and was fairly near the sea as well.
In 1939, of course,
of the war vividly.
I remember listening to the broadcast
at 11: 00, and Neville Chamberlain said,
And so we are at war with Germany.
My father said, About bloody time, too.
And my mother cried,
had had in the first World War.
