HELLO Russell, just read your first two posts, the cattle around Glan Clwyd and the lamb in Cefn.
I have been wandering around the Daily Post’s blogs and I picked on you to post a reply be cause I know the Cefn and Marli areas well.
About 20 years ago I drove a minibus around all that area taking schoolkids into school in St Asaph, and I also did the Cefn bus service (twice a week) for around five years.
I got to know a lot of people from around there, and, sometimes, a thirty-something big strapping young farmer comes up to me and says something like, “You don’t remember me, do you?”
I always reply, “Yes, I do. But I remember you as a 15-year-old lad” - and that’s true, I do.
Pleased to have written to one of the Post’s bloggers. I’m one myself, although I didn't know I was until last Wednesday when I first saw the paper.
I’m Mike Owen, I had my photo under the heading “Bank Robber” underneath the Farming blog headline.
Michael Owen
Russell replies:
Hello Michael,
THANK you for your interesting comments.
A lot of changes have taken place since I left Cefn Meiriadog over 46 years ago.
I note you used to take the children to school in your mini-bus. When I went to St Asaph school, almost three miles away, I had to walk, ride my bone-shaker bike on cobbled lanes, but mostly I galloped bare-back on my little white Welsh mountain pony.
I left my pony at my uncle’s farm at Aber Elwy (near the junction of Lower Denbigh road), now a factory site.
It was even harder for my parents. My mother had to walk from her home farm at Hen Dy, Cefn Meiriadog, to St Asaph School down muddy footpaths, through lonely Coed-Yr-Esgob (Bishop Woods) and, of course, the return journey after school.
You will know my cousin John Rees, who still farms, with his family, at Ty’n-Y-Ffordd Fawr, Cefn.
Regards, Russell
HELLO again. Regarding the blog entry “Watch out YouTube, you've got competition”, would the Stan Brown from Shotton be the Stan Brown, the best auctioneer from Holywell, who started there in 1955? If so, I knew him well.
Michael Owen
Russell replies:
Hello Michael,
Thank you for your comments. Yes! I’m talking about the same Stan Brown as you mention.
In addition to his auction room he also ran an estate agent’s business called SH Brown in Holywell.
Russell
