Tales from My Welsh Village  
Author(s): Ken Smith
Published by The Books Council of Wales
Publication Date:  Available in all formats
ISBN: 9781784616373
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A novel spinning warm and very amusing tall tales about larger-than-life characters in a small village in the South Wales Valleys in the 1960s.
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A novel spinning warm and very amusing tall tales about larger-than-life characters in a small village in the South Wales Valleys in the 1960s.
Table of contents
  • Foreword
  • 1 – Fred ‘Rats’ Howells
  • 2 – A shock for Fred
  • 3 – Fred’s return to an empty house
  • 4 – The Plough Inn
  • 5 – Return of the prodigal
  • 6 – Fred’s story of ‘Blucher’
  • 7 – Brecon Hotel and the chocolates
  • 8 – Rabbiting in Llyswen
  • 9 – Fred’s appetite in Talgarth
  • 10 – To the Plough to relate…
  • 11 – Jack Thomas’ chickens
  • 12 – Jack Thomas confronts Fred about a fox
  • 13 – To catch a fox
  • 14 – To catch a fox (continued)
  • 15 – The fox of Treherbert Road
  • 16 – Trefor and the door frame
  • 17 – Gwilym the Siop and the door frame
  • 18 – Gwilym the Siop’s revenge
  • 19 – Fred and the gravedigging contract
  • 20 – Trefor’s day in court
  • 21 – Fred and the blasting powder
  • 22 – Fred resigns as gravedigger
  • 23 – Colin signs the contract
  • 24 – Fred’s roast chicken: Part 1
  • 25 – Fred’s roast chicken: Part 2
  • 26 – The butcher in the Plough
  • 27 – Fred and the funny money
  • 28 – The dog show and Fred’s terrier
  • 29 – Ode to a Champion
  • 30 – Fred’s ferrets loose in the Legion
  • 31 – Trefor and the butcher: Part 2
  • 32 – Fred and his move to the Mount
  • 33 – Fred and Alan’s rabbit
  • 34 – Fred’s reinstatement
  • 35 – Fred’s passing
  • Glossary of local terms
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