Does he speak Welsh?
By: John Scott
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Reminiscence
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780753184004; 9780753184011
Subjects: Childhood and youth; World War, 1939-1945; Evacuation of civilians; Biography; Children; Large type books; Social conditions
Description: "Suddenly they were all talking about me. Then came the phrase that I would come to hear so often that it became burned into my soul, "Ydy e'n siarad Cymraeg?" (Does he speak Welsh?)" In this delightful, childhood memoir the author takes us back to the time when he was evacuated from wartime Newcastle, with his mother, to stay with an elderly aunt in Wales. It was a time when the local people all conversed fluently in their own native tongue, and the diverse characters he met were a fascination for him. Not least, was his Uncle Bob the local baker who introduced him to bread-making. A year or so later, mother and son left Pwllheli, to rejoin his father in Newcastle.
Notes: Originally published: Steyning: Red'n'Ritten, 2008.