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Mumbles Memories

Stories from Old Mumbles

An occasional series of stories, historical and sometimes light-hearted, from the parish recalled and written by Grafton Maggs. Some of the accounts now have audio commentary.

	Memories of School Days between the Wars
	The Tuppenny Book
	Cliff -The Welsh Icarus
	The Haka and Aunty Muriel
	"Focus on just one thing!..."
	Send for Sparky!
	Bryn Balsdon and HMS Repulse
	The secret curtained life of Merkil Noot
	The Writing on the Vic' Wall
	Saturday Morning Haircut *with audio commentary*
	The Two Flies *with audio comentary*
	The Origin of Mumbles Names
	A Mumbles Christmas Poem
	Christmas in Mumbles between the Wars
	What's in a name?
	Mumbles Marconis *with audio commentary*
	The Mumbles Phoenix
	Reluctant Heroes
	Aunty Minnie
	The New Wristwatch
	Mumbles Home Guard May 1940
	Vote! Vote! Vote! For Harry Libby *with audio commentary*
	The demise of the back street shop
	The Tar-Men are coming!
	Come to the 'Old' tonight *with audio commentary*
	Dolly Chugg and the 'Executioner'
	Camaraderie
	Bonfire Night
	Summer months in Mumbles  1939
	Banzai! Jim Kostromin and the Japanese General's Sword
	Spud Murphy makes the 'Front Page'

You can now read the first ever Oystermouth Parish Magazine dated February 1899. Click here