Eve Farrant (nee Lisher) of Lancing, West Sussex shares with us an account of one of her many holidays. She would have been about 18 years old at the time of this particular vacation.

'In the mid 1930's I went on holiday with Dorothy Ross, staying at Barmouth, at a Methodist Holiday Centre for young people. It proved a most enjoyable time.

View from the summit of Cader

Abergynan Valley

We all had various chores to do before going out for the day and this, done on a rota system, was really quite fun. On our excursions out, we mainly climbed the surrounding mountains. Cadir Idris and Snowden were two that we accomplished.

It was very much a 'pairing' holiday. Dorothy paired with Colin Wilkes from Liverpool, whom she later married. I thought my friend far more attractive and I could have fallen in love with Len. I'm sure he felt a similar attraction to me, however, he had a girlfriend and at the time was engaged to be married.

However, Len and I had a lovely two week romance which I'll never forget and we decided, as a thanks to God for that pleasant holiday, to do something to help others. There was a lot of poverty at that time in East London, so we saved and sent money to the East End Mission. We met just before Christmas and took parcels, made up by the Mission, to poor families selected by them.

I was at that time great friends with Philip Child (I called him by his second name, John), a student at Richmond Theological College, and had visited him at the College en-route to Wales and was seeing him on my return.'

Cader Idris with Eve and Len in the foreground

On Mount Snowden