1951: Shân looked to be a happy baby as she lay in her pram with Marilyn’s doll, Peggy, and as she posed for group photos with her big brother Ceri and big sister Marilyn, who quite obviously enjoyed being in-charge of her baby sister, especially when Shân was just starting to walk and run around the lawns of 18 Kendal Road, Escombe. A huge bougainvillaea hedge grew alongside the driveway in this house and provided a flush of lovely coloured blooms for much of the year. The drive also provided a good place to practise skipping. Marilyn and Ceri went off to school on foot in the mornings, not forgetting to wave good-bye at the gate. Relations quite often came to visit by car and were always also greeted by the Corgis, Kimmy (Cymru) and Daisy. These folk in the footage, at a guess are: – cousin Malcolm in his striped university blazer, the other young man could be cousin David from Bulowayo, Rhodesia with his sister Jill. Auntie Gwen is holding baby Shân and Granny, Marilyn and Ceri are also in the picture.
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