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Read about one of the many holidays enjoyed by Eve Farrant (nee Lisher). The following is an extract taken from the sizeable, handwritten account of Eve's life from her birth, in 1917, to 1960.
'We went on a family holiday once to New Tredegar in South Wales. This was at the time of the Depression, when times were hard in this part, where most of the men were coal miners. I think I was about seven at this time and I know many of the shops had had to close and were boarded up.
We would walk to meet my Uncle Ernest, my mother's only brother, and it was a pathetic sight seeing these tired men, covered with coal dust, coming from the coal mines. When my uncle arrived home he would have a bath in a zinc bath in the kitchen. There were no washing facilities at the mine.
It was on this holiday that I saw my maternal grandfather, but not much later he fell, broke his thigh and died of pneumonia.
I remember one occasion on this holiday that I'm not proud of. We were playing snakes and ladders when I landed on the top of a large snake and my chances of winning were diminished, so I pushed the board and upset the play. I was sent to bed with no tea, but, in fact, my Auntie Louie sneaked me some.'
How lucky she was to have such a kind Auntie.
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