Based on this it’s 52% v 43% with Plaid Cymru leading the government.

Good thread and analysis.

If we are looking at blocks, I reckon it’s Plaid Cymru/Labour/Greens v Reform/Tories/Liberals.

Thank you. I will share Sarah Foreman’s story. Most of it takes place in London. It‘s a long one, and different in character to Annie’s story, but I hope you will find it just as interesting.

World Cup 1966

21 April 1966

The football world cup wasn’t the only big event coming to town. There was also the hairdressing world cup…

In the near future, I might do a feature on my 4 x great grandmother Sarah Foreman. As a young woman in the 1820s Sarah left her Lincolnshire village for the “bright lights” of London. What awaited her there…

Thanks for reading 🙂

I have a living relative who used to stay with Annie’s daughter, Annie, when she visited London. My relative speaks highly of daughter Annie. I believe this reflects well on my 3 x great grandmother Annie.

For all the successes of the Victorian era, their great failure was neglect and poverty. Profit overrode the basic needs of the people.

I don’t think a chronic alcoholic would have succeeded as Annie succeeded. Therefore, I’m inclined to believe that her unsanitary living conditions were responsible for her death, just as they were responsible for the death of her first husband, James Noulton.

Three of her sons, Henry, George and Samuel, served in the First World War with distinction (George lost his life) while her daughter Elizabeth lived to be ninety-six, and Elizabeth’s daughter Minnie Rose to be one hundred.

Despite this background, Annie raised seven children, dragged them out of poverty. Remarkably, given the high child mortality rate in Victorian times, all her children survived.

Annie was dealt a bad hand at birth, surrounded by poverty, the daughter of a ne’er-do-well father. The men she married, James Noulton and Frederick Thomas Canty, had some good qualities, but they were certainly not knights in shining armour.

When researching ancestors, it’s tempting to look at their lives through rose-tinted spectacles and think the best of them. So, I will try to be objective about Annie.

An inquest and post mortem concluded that Annie had suffered from kidney and liver disease. What provoked that disease – excessive drinking or exposure to unsanitary living conditions? The coroner did not say.

Ill-health affected my 3 x great grandmother Annie Wheeler during the early months of 1904. In late July, she collapsed, and on 27 July 1904 she died, aged forty-seven.

I recommend 2023 AD by Jill Curzon. A well written and entertaining memoir.

Labour have deep roots in our area. They are well organised. That won’t be enough this time around to win, but it could make a difference to the final result and the make up of the Senedd.

Only Labour seem to be putting any effort in around our area. Based on this, I’m wondering if they will do better than expected, still finish third, but take some votes off Plaid Cymru. This is Plaid Cymru’s big chance. They need to up their game.

For balance. There are four voters in our house. We have discussed the forthcoming election. None of us will vote for Reform.

The weather.

On the tele.

A lady with a gun. Future Doctor Who actress was a sharp-shooter.

A lady with a pipe.

Explosive fishing.

The reason for the blackout.

Tuesday 21 April 1964

The start of BBC2…almost.

Due to the appalling standard of journalism, we are now a fact free society, and suffering for it.

See the full thread for some fascinating facts about potholes.

That was a good one, the Wimbledon story.

Greens, Liberals, Tories 0/5 - nothing received, no indication that they are even standing

Reform - minus 10 - hiding their name on envelopes, getting family members names wrong. Amateurish and insulting