Gwyn Hughes Jones: The Family and Parents of YGG Aberdâr

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Gwyn Hughes Jones: The Family and Parents of YGG Aberdâr

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Gwyn Hughes Jones: The Family and Parents of YGG Aberdâr
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Because of the atmosphere, it says somewhere, everyone uses the term 'family', well, certainly, Ysgol Gymraeg Cwmdâr, or Aberdâr, was a whole family. And you experience that today as you remember the names of your brothers and sisters and so on, it is amazing and this must last. Those parents, those committee members, who fought so, so hard, to establish this School, and who fought for years before that year in 1949. Yes, I turned five the day after the School opened on September 7th, and I just read that the children were from Cwmdâr and the upper part of the valley in the first week, that's why the numbers were like that, and then the children from the lower part of the valley, or, the other part of the valley where I lived in Aberaman, that's when we got to come to the School. But behind us all, there are many people, whose names we don't know, there are some whose names we know, if I could name my father, Reverend Glannant Jones, he was one of those who fought very, very hard, and he was the secretary of the Parents' Committee. But there are others that we don’t, I don't know their names, but they are the cloud of witnesses that make the School, that made this School possible, and please, it has to keep going, it has to be as proud as we were and we are of our Welshness. Onward Ysgol Gymraeg Aberdâr.

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Interviewee name
Gwyn Hughes Jones
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Hannah Buckmaster
Interview/filmed date
25/11/2024

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