14 Wern Fawr Road: Life in a 1950s Welsh Household

We lived at Wern Fawr Road in Port Tennant, Swansea, until I was eight, packed in with Nan and Grandpa Davies, Auntie Cynthia, Uncle Teddy, and by 1960 us five kids. The house seemed enormous through the eyes of a small child. It probably wasn't. There was a bay-windowed parlour at the front, strictly off-limits to children. Nan's sanctuary. A glass-fronted cabinet with her ornaments in it, a sofa…