So for the last three days I've been here in Cwmbran. I caught an early bus from Victoria and arrived late morning in Newport where my sister picked me up. Since then we have been talking to the undertaker and to John Edmonds, the pastor at...

This one is a book awarded to my nana (my dad's mother) in 1919 (when she was 11) by the local Baptist Church. It appears to be a morality story by a woman called (Mrs) Jeanie Ferry. Ferry was prolific with stories for girls mainly from the late 19th...

We're going through stuff. This is my great grandfather's Bible I believe. If I have it right James Burr served as a Captain in the Salvation Army and worked on the Newport Transporter Bridge.

My niece Vicki drew this a short while ago. It is a true if slightly romantic likeness. (Yes, I did sometimes ask him for a family bucket but he never really got it)

Thanks for the various messages of condolence by various routes. I received this helpful quotation from John Ling's book Edge of Life. I echoes and strengthens my own thoughts. There is the reality of the deathbed conversion, and we should never...