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Stories from Old Mumbles

 

 

An occasional series of stories from the parish recalled and written by Grafton Maggs.






 

 

Bryn Balsdon and HMS Repulse
The secret curtained life of Merkil Noot
The Writing on the Vic' Wall
  Saturday Morning Haircut
  The Two Flies
  The Origin of Mumbles Names
A Mumbles Christmas Poem
  Christmas in Mumbles between the Wars
 

What's in a name?

Mumbles Marconis

The Mumbles Phoenix

Reluctant Heroes
  Aunty Minnie
  The New Wristwatch
  Mumbles Home Guard
May 1940
  Vote! Vote! Vote!
For Harry Libby
  The demise of the back street shop
 The Tar-Men are coming!
Come to the 'Old' tonight
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