Ann Jenkins, Pencader - shares her memories of a childhood on a dairy and sheep farm.
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Ann Jenkins was born and brought up on a farm at Nant Llech Fawr, Pencader. She shares a few memories of when when the orphan lambs were old enough to go out to the fields with the other sheep, she used to feed them from milk bottles on the way to school and then leave the empty bottles on the milk stand. Her father would collect them when he went to put the churns on the milk stand. Then a story about the milk lorry driver, and she would get a lift with him to go up two miles or so up the road, and help a little woman on a farm up there with some housework and things like that. So I’d get a lift up with the milk lorry in the morning. The most striking thing for her as a child was in 1963, when the great snow came — the roads were blocked with drifts. The farmers joined together to open gaps in each field, so that you could travel more or less parallel to the road, going up and down along the milk route to the village — so the lorry could get to Pencader. The snow lasted for quite a while and she went to school, walking on top of the snowdrifts. It was so hard she could walk on top of them. Ann spoke with Anthony Rees of the Carmarthenshire Milk stand project
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