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Mumbles Memories

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