Gwilym Rhys Williams: The Story of my Life
This memoir incorporates descriptions of a boy’s memories of life in the colliery villages of Cymmer and Gwaun Cae Gurwen before the First World War; a remote Carmarthenshire farming community (Panteg) between 1914 and 1935; life as a Grammar School pupil in Carmarthen and a student at the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth 1925-29; a life-long teaching career at Llandeilo Grammar School; life and travels as a member of the Army’s Education Corps during the Second World War; and a description of a social life in Llandeilo centred around Capel Newydd; ending with a post-retirement period in Rhuddlan.
G.R. and Carrie moved to the Aberystwyth area after Nest’s death in 1977, living first in Llanilar and then near Bethan and family in Bow Street. G.R. died in 1993, aged 86.