Horace Drake

  • Once Upon a Time in Aberkenfig (Memoirs)

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    Curated by his son James JP Drake (jamesdrake.com)
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    "Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever.” - Narrator, How Green was My Valley

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    Preface: 11th November 1918
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    Ty‘n y Wern: My ‘House in the Meadow’
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    Aberkenfig in the 1920’s: Our own Milk Wood
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    School days
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    Off to work at fourteen
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    My moment of destiny
    Extracts of handwritten version
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    Wartime looms
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    Persia 1940-42
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    Vesuvius erupts as my war ends
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    The Outsider
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    Epilogue
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    Audio recordings
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    Credits
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