LETTER: Page headed up: “Extracts from a letter of my late Uncle”, enclosed with Iris Back (Mrs)’s second letter) to Miss Patch: “We ¹ ⁺ ³ were apprenticed at the Foundry, Carmarthen, a business created by our grandfather ⁴, and we lived with our grandmother ⁵. I had lived with them over a year when my brother ³ joined me at the foundry. He too served his full five years at the work. Alas, my grandparents passed on and we were left with a daughter-in-law ⁶---who compelled us, on two occasions, to go on strike until food was not the “slap up” which she was in control of.
At the works we started at 6am – straight from bed. We proceeded to our machines until breakfast at 8-30 became due. This was the order of life and was accepted by every man who lived at home or not. Can you imagine young lads doing that today?”
¹ Thomas Jones Sydney Morgan (1885-1978)
² Iris Doreen Rodman, formerly Back, née Morgan (1918-1989)
³ Frederick Charles Ivor Morgan (1887-1955)
⁴ Thomas Jones, Priory Foundry (1817-1892)
⁵ Mary Jones née Griffiths (1815-1902) Priory Foundry
⁶ Margaret Jones (1854-1921) wife of Benjamin (1847-1922 son of T.J. Foundry