Photographs and papers of Florence Letitia and Arthur Elliott Austin

This material is held atWest Glamorgan Archive Service

Scope and Content

Choral, 1899-1947; Swansea Sailors’ Society, n.d., c. 1940s-1952; James Brothers, drapers, High Street, n.d., c.1930s; Other, 1879-1951

Administrative / Biographical History

Florence Letitia Austin (c. 1906-1999, née Samuel) was a milliner at James Brothers, drapers, 73 & 74 High Street. She was also an amateur singer and sang soprano solos at concerts and at Eisteddfodau. Her husband, Arthur Elliott Austin (1905-2000) was initially an iron monger by trade, becoming manager for H. Paul’s Builders’ Merchants after the Second World War. He sang with choirs in his spare time.

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