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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dad acquired a plot of land in Northdene to which he took Ceri and Marilyn to help him saw fallen trees into logs using a double handled log saw, Ceri doing his best to help with the job whilst Marilyn was given a turn, too.<\/p>\n<p>One of the items that had arrived from Wales aboard the Llanstephan Castle, was a wooden train for Ceri. \u00a0This provided joyful fun in the garden for Ceri and for Marilyn, as well as a small wheelbarrow.<\/p>\n<p>The family now lived in Sarnia Road, Rossborough and being 1949, it was time for Ceri to start Class 1 at the local Primary School. Footage here shows Ceri going off to school in his uniform with sister Marilyn waving goodbye to him at the garden gate. \u00a0Ceri was a pupil at Rossborough until mid-1950 (halfway through Class 2) when the family moved to live in Escombe and his education continued at Escombe Primary. \u00a0Ceri stayed at this school until mid-1952 when he was sent up to Dundee to stay with Auntie Gwen to complete that year. For the following 3 years (’53 – ’56) Ceri was a boarder at Cowan House in Pietermaritzburg.<\/p>\n<p>The Corgis had a substantial wooden house for their kennel. \u00a0This later became a wendyhouse for the children’s own fun.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Ceri nor I are sure about the significance of the parade showing floats taking part in a procession. \u00a0It seems that the Cambrian Society entered a float depicting the Welsh Miners who had arrived in South Africa from the coal mines of the Welsh Valleys to work mainly in the mines in Natal. \u00a0Several of the Welsh folk dolled up in Welsh national dress. \u00a0Dad, together with Ceri and Marilyn, as a small child, and one of the Corgis (Kimmy) were aboard for this celebratory event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Dad acquired a plot of land in Northdene to which he took Ceri and Marilyn to help him saw fallen trees into logs using a double handled log saw, Ceri doing his best to help with the job whilst Marilyn was given a turn, too. One of the items that had arrived from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviesfamilyfilms.tjasink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviesfamilyfilms.tjasink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviesfamilyfilms.tjasink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviesfamilyfilms.tjasink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviesfamilyfilms.tjasink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/daviesfamilyfilms.tjasink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/daviesfamilyfilms.tjasink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviesfamilyfilms.tjasink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviesfamilyfilms.tjasink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviesfamilyfilms.tjasink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}