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A Welshman Remembers: The Story of a Welsh Family, 1938 to the Present Day...
A Welshman Remembers: The Story of a Welsh Family, 1938 to the Present Day...
A Welshman Remembers: The Story of a Welsh Family, 1938 to the Present Day...
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A WELSHMAN REMEMBERS

Is a kind of biography, about the life and family of Robert Bassett, a Welshman, born in the South Wales town of Newport, in the county of Monmouthshire, over 70 years ago. We read anecdotes and events, in the lives of this Welsh family of seven children,-- four boys and three girls, whose parents were both hard working and caring, during their upbringing. It tells us of the many and varied homes around the area , the result of the need to try to improve both income and conditions, in the life of an agricultural worker in the earlier parts of the twentieth century. It includes the various schools and the difficulties involved. We are also told of Roberts exploits in amateur boxing and his love of country music culminating in the trip of a lifetime when, along with his wife Jeannette he visited the southern States of America , and the home of country music , the Grand Ole Opry, in Nashville Tennessee in 1985. We also read about some of the memorable moment of the family's early days, ...the arrival of the family's first car, the naivete of the earl;y years when newspapers were rarely seen,.... "the everlasting pen !!".... We are told about the little village schools, of following the foxhounds instead of classes, and the family's involvement on the farms during haymaking, and the wonderful picnic teas at the end of a hard days work...... This book is a compilation of memoirs and events put together from memory, over the past fifteen years. Altogether an interesting and often comical look at life in general, in and around the area of South wales during the 70 plus years of the Authors life.
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Release dateAug 15, 2011
ISBN9781456785253
A Welshman Remembers: The Story of a Welsh Family, 1938 to the Present Day...
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Robert W.M. Bassett

ROBERT BASSETT, was born in Newport, South Wales on October 15th 1938, the third son , in a family of seven children, four boys and three girls, of David and Doris Bassett. The father David, the younget son of a small farmer naturally took to the arduous career of agricultural toil which led to the family leading a rather nomadic existence, moving from farm to farm, living in what were known as tied cottages, in search of improved wages and conditions. Their travels took them from the outskirts of Newport around the county of Monmouthshire and the neighbouring shire of Glamorgan.in South Wales Robert having passed the entrance exam, struggled to keep abreast of his peers in the three Grammar schools he attended, until he left school aged 15, to contribute to the family income which was necessary due to his fathers ill health in the years crucial to the developement of the growing Bassett family. Robert also spent his early working life in agriculture, but widened his horizons into road haulage, and during his career graduated to the position of Depot Transport manager of an Oil ditribution company near Chepstow where he remained until his retirement in 1991. Robert gained international recognition in his chosen sport of amateur boxing, representing Wales on four occasions in the 70's    He also loves country music and visited Nashville, Tennessee in the USA in 1985. We are also given examples and anecdotes of Robert's many other interests and activities, in this, the 70 odd years of his journey along the highway of life. 

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