19 things all Welsh people remember from their childhoods we don’t see anymore - reaction video

Recently, I Went to Tenby with some of my family for a few days holiday. While we were there it seemed like a good time to make another video with Jean or as I call her, Mam (Mother). In this video we discussed the list ‘19 things all Welsh people remember from their childhood that we don’t see anymore’. We talked about lots of things we remembered including the Corona pop man coming to visit, buying our sweets at Woolworths, using the old-fashioned corded rotary phones, the old-fashioned school desks we had to use that came from the early 1900s, visiting Penscynor wildlife Park and much much more. Hope you enjoy this video and that it will take you back to your childhood memories of Wales. If you’re not from Wales or a little bit younger, I hope it’ll help you to get to know more about what Wales was like during the latter half of the 20th century.
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[@KathleenStidham]

❤ Never been out of the U.S. but so many things you mentioned were true here! The spiral phone cords and the rotary dial, playground equipment made of pipes over hard surfaces, and John Denver. LOVED his music, and was so sad when he died. I really enjoy hearing about topics like this as well as learning a little bit of Welsh language too (the mutations lesson will take a few more listens…).

[@goldwhitedragon]

1. Long love Wales! 2. The Owl Service - A great Welsh main actor and TV series (1969) 3. Love to hear you sing Men of Harlech in Welsh, then pronounce it sentence by sentence, because I'm having trouble with "Yng ngwyn oleuni'r goelcerth acwTros wefusau Cymro'n marw." 4. Well done boyo! Good to see close families still; not letting too much technology affect family unity.

[@nogoodboyo6372]

don’t know if you’ve seen but you can watch the Owl Service on youtube!

[@billfaint6736]

I've lived in Wales for 33 years (I say I'm English by birth but Welsh by choice). I was brought up in Essex. I remember Corona, and their tv adverts fronted by comedian Dave King. My earliest memories of my paternal grandparents' house include an 'Anderson shelter' in the garden, an outside loo being the ONLY loo and gas lighting (yes, you had to use a match to light a mantle)!

[@davidstraker8336]

School trips. A regular stop was Ewenny Pottery to buy the cheapest dish I could find as present for mum (I had very little money and ice-cream was not an optional extra).

[@user-mm6pf1wh7y]

Un bys dau fys tri bys yn dawnsio was a finger counting song all the way up to deg bys yn dawnsio'n llon. Still used in ysgol feithrin when my children were there in the 90's

[@PedrSion]

Whip and top. The rag and bone man with his horse. The National Anthem at the end of programming on the BBC.

[@allenjenkins7947]

I only lived in Swansea until I was about 6 years old, when my family moved to Northumberland. This was in the early 1950s, so many of the things on your list were after my time, particularly the references to TV programs and personalities. Some of the things on my list would include - Riding upstairs on the Mumbles train out to Mumbles Pier. Italian icecream parlours. My favourite was D'Ambrosio's in Craiglwyd Square. Listening to wax 78rpm records on a wind-up gramophone. That was later replaced by radiogram which incorporated a wireless as well. Having only 3 wireless stations, all BBC (Home, Light and Third). Listening to the wireless as you would watch TV, or even a tablet today. Being taken shopping by my grandmother to Swansea Market. She knew most of the stallholders and their families and would stop to gossip, even if she was not buying from them that day. An eternity for a small boy. Saturday morning kid's matinees at the pictures. Sunday coach trips in summer. My gran always had a huge basket full of goodies to eat and drink. Group singing in the bus on the way home. Swimming at beaches, never in a swimming pool. When I was 12, my family moved again, this time to Melbourne, Australia. A lot of things on your list were common to all three countries, particularly the deadly playground equipment on concrete and asphalt playgrounds. If you thought that those metal slides got a bit hot in Wales, imagine them in an Australian summer. Alternatively, imagine your skin freezing to them in a Northumbrian winter. Still, we survived didn't we.

[@oceanwanderer8065]

I well remember the Corona pop van visiting my Grandparent's street in Queensferry Flintshire in the late 1950s, and the excitement rushing out to the van to buy a bottle!--Happy days!

[@gwilwilliams5831]

Lots of memories. I’m nearer your mum’s age. I remember counting sacks of coal into the shed which was next the outside toilet. And I remember the milkman’s horse slipping on a hill and all the bottles falling on the road. A real mess it was. I listened to Listen with Mother on the wireless and I saw some early TV shows like Bill and Ben the Flower 🌸 Pot Men and Muffin the Mule. We also had a street party for the Coronation and we got to eat loads of jelly.

[@msbeaverhausen7226]

I love this video but the sound was very low. I have two old fashioned desks with the drop down seat that I use as side tables with the lamp on the top and books on the seat. My parents are from South Wales and in the summer we would visit and I loved going to the the cwm in Cilfynydd!!

[@LearnWelshPodcast]

My microphone isn’t the best and the sound is always quieter when two of us are in the video because the camera (and mic)has to go further back.