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After coming back from Goring on sea we stopped in Tooting for a couple of years. The people living next door who were welsh suggested my mum and my brother and I go down to wales and stop with there relatives in the Rhonda Valley. The village is called Ferndale the house is up the side of the mountain in those days there was a coalmine on the other side of the valley.When you went out in the morning you had to mind you didnt fall over a sheep sheltering in the doorwayI remember one of the first jobs mum had to do was take my brother and I down to the town and buy us a pair of hobnail boots each,I had loads of studs in mine. when we used to go to the pictures we did what the local lads did and bought a swede to eat in the flicks.The road we lived in had a huge park at the back that we played in also a lake that I fell in once during the winter some older lads were playing near us and pulled me out. Most of the men who lived in our road were Miners they used to have there coal delivered outside the house in the road Every week the Corona man used to deliver soft drinks up our road we used to run and jump on the back for a ride.Also there used to be a Bakers in the corner of the street, the locals used to have there home made bread baked their.

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