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Brenig Owen remembers |
I was born in Wales in 1908 in Bryniau Brycheiniog, a small village in the County of Breconshire, famed for its mountain scenery.
My mother came from Abercwmboi near Aberdare in Glamorganshire. She was a very beautiful woman as photographs clearly show. She became the mother of four children; three boys and one girl.
My father was unable to speak Welsh while my mother was a fluent Welsh speaker so we were brought up speaking English to my father and Welsh to my mother.
My father had been a stonemason but failing health forced him to change his job and he became a baker and grocer.
My father baked bread in the old-fashioned stick oven. He bought wood by the cord from a local estate where there were lots of trees. He was very particular about the kind of wood he wanted. His favourites were beech, ash and oak. Alder he hated because, he said "they always have their feet in water."
written by Brenig Owen, Guild House, Gloucester
© October 2000 Brenig Owen Part of the Silver Surfers' Project by trAce Online Writing Centre for the 2000 Cheltenham Festival of Literature