Washing Day and Our Baby in Bargoed

From the collection of

Archif Sgrin a Sain Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales Screen and Sound Archive
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Washing Day and Our Baby in Bargoed


All busy on the domestic front: Glenys Jenkins of Bargoed has sons to feed and take to the park, washing to hang out and relatives to visit.

Life on the domestic front in Bargoed, Caerffili, over a period of years. Mum Glenys has washing to hang out, young sons to care for, a polite sheep to feed and relatives to visit. Her boys, John and Huw, spend their days being adored by their elders, eating lollies, blowing dandelion clocks and swinging in the park. A friend of theirs gets to have a go at smoking his father's pipe and Huw finds a camera.

Glenys Mair Jones was born in 1929, daughter of Edith deLloyd Jones and Alexander William Ernest Jones, a woodwork teacher, who lived in Cardiff Road, Bargoed. Both are seen on their doorstep with Glenys and her brother, Eric deLloyd Jones, who holds Glenys' baby, John. Glenys married in 1951 and had two sons - John Gruffydd Llewellyn (b.1952) and Huw Geraint (b.1957). Her husband, Griffith John Jenkins (b.1914), was a pharmacist and the son of Ruth and Robert [Bob] Jenkins, the latter a headteacher, of Gelli-Pentre, Rhondda. Ruth is seen holding her eldest grandson and Bob is seen in the garden with the boys and their aunt Millie, a teacher. The pipe-smoking boy is David, son of local GP Dr John Dunphy.


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