A Child’s Wartime in Wales · 15 February 05 · Issue 1

Grenades on the top of the wardrobe, the billiard room ripped to pieces, his pet dog lost to the soldiers, Carol Davies was 6 years old when the Second World War was declared. His parents owned the Trewythen Arms Hotel in Llanidloes when it was taken over by the army. His remembrances of that period were very clear for him. As Living History, these are not military memoirs but the recollections of a child living through that time and whose priorities give a vivid picture of the town that, although not on the front line as such, nevertheless did undergo privations as a result of the conflict. These anecdotes were to be part of Carol’s autobiography. Unfortunately he died in December 2004 and because of all the help and encouragement he gave me in my historical and cultural pursuits in Mid-Wales, this first edition of PenCambria is dedicated to him. Gay Roberts.