Heres the updated details for Kits send-off. Some History: My formidable Aunt Olive Evans, head-mistress of the Gaer Primary School in Newport roped my Mum and Dad into St. Martins-in-the-Gaer when it was built on a hill opposite the Iron Age fort and brand new award winning housing estate back in 1957. Kit was a valleys Baptist and the transition to C of E was not always smooth. My Dad was an unassuming Church warden for many years and Kit attended St. Martins right til the very end of her life. I was christened there and so was our boy Jimmy. The Upper Cock Inn is where Kits sister Louise had her wedding reception when she married Dave Talbott back in 1976. If you walk up to the hill through Croesyceiliog from the Afon Llwyd River to the Upper Cock youll pass Florence Place, a row of terraced houses where I spent the happiest days of my childhood surrounded by a large, unruly and hilarious extended family. Len and Arthur, Kits parents lived at number 49 and the house was always full; the rent man, the insurance man, the district nurse, Graham-the-milk all drinking tea and eating trifle before noon. More family (Lens sister Rosie and her scrum half husband Bryn plus Kits grandmother) lived nest door. The outside toilet at the very far end of the long skinny back garden was guarded by fierce insane-eyed chickens. This is where Kit grew up, with her younger sister Louise and cousin Jill in all too close proximity! Further up the hill, just before the pub, is the Chestnuts, (the old house is still standing...) the first house she ever lived in, the house she came home to when she born. Kit and her great friend Margaret Sheppard volunteered for the charity Dr. Barnardos for many years and donations can be made to her memory via a link on this page. kit.ansible.uk/
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:40:52 +0000
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