Vivian Jones recounts with great warmth his childhood in a working class family within the community of a small mining village in the Welsh Valleys in the 1930s. This fascinating book brings the detail of that time, place and culture vividly back to life and considers the influence that growing up in such an environment has had on who the author is today. 11 black-and-white photographs.

• Foreword
• Introduction
• My Valley
• My Village
• Three Homes
• School
• The Cinema
• The Chapel
• Tad-cu
• Dad
• The Inheritance
• Images