SUMMARY
00:00:14 Living in Ty Nant when WWII declared – heard it on wireless
00:00:55 Changes in way of life – no street lights, air raid wardens, rations
00:02:25 Blown off bike outside a butchers in Llantwit Fardre due to nearby explosion in Creigiau
00:03:39 Working in factory – producing laboratory glassware for the war (used in acid bombs)
00:04:32 Local buses replaced with utility buses (the Beddau area)
00:05:11 East Glamorgan Hospital – hospital for RAF personnel
00:05:59 Road blocks on Broadway, Pontypridd; identity cards
00:06:27 Home Guard, Upper Boat, Pontypridd
00:08:57 Hitching rides on lorries near Treforest Ind. Est.
00:10:08 Taking lifts on wagons travelling to Maes-y-Coed tip
00:11:19 Hearing about news of the war in the cinema; cinemas of Pontypridd and local entertainments
00:15:04 Factories of Treforest Ind. Est. being built and working there during the war
00:18:08 Coedylan School bomb
00:18:45 RAF at 18 (looking at pic)
00:19:15 40 years in the Police Force – Pontypridd, Ton Pentre, Bridgend HQ, Aberdare, Cowbridge
00:23:16 Grammar School, Pontypridd; bombing in Tyfica Rd, Pontypridd
00:26:10 Woman teacher for the first time
00:26:42 Mother worked in shop then a factory
00:27:25 Marriage; working in English fields picking potatoes for the home front
00:28:22 Registers for war duties at 16yrs old – air training corps; helping in hospitals
00:29:53 Horse-drawn fire engine
00:31:00 Family in Penarth – sleeping under steel plate as protection against bombs
00:32:03 Air Force – not allowed to fly due to hayfever (checked medical files); engineering (Spit Fire, Halifax Bombers; Sunderland Flying Boat), Pembroke Dock
00:40:53 Temporary bases in Northern Ireland and Scotland
00:43:50 Engineering drawing
00:45:55 Story about a friend and his family from Ynysybwl
00:47:23 End