Silver Jubilee Street Party

August 9th, 2006, by Rich.

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Silver Jubilee Street Party

Wimmerfield Crescent is a residential street located in Killay, Swansea. It feeds three small residential cul-de-sac roads, one of which is called Heol Glasnant where I used to live. Heol Glasnant has the unusual property (in Wales) of being flat, and the lack of throroughfare made it an ideal venue for street parties.

In 1977 Elizabeth II had reigned for 25 years, and to celebrate this Silver Jubilee, street parties were organised for children throughout the UK (and probably elsewhere in the Commonwealth too).

This video of the events before the party is shot at my grandparents house on Wimmerfield Crescent and features several local mums and grandmothers attending just one of many coffee mornings, bring-and-buy sales and raffles that were held to raise funds for the party.

I was just a little over 4 1/2 years old on party day, and a couple of months later entered the Reception class in Hendrefoilan School (where many of the other kids also attended). Hendrefoilan School had opened 8 months previously, so before then, many of the kids attended Dunvant Junior School.

If you see yourself, or your kids, or parents, or grandparents, let me know, it would be great to get everybody identified for posterity.

Lesley Says:
August 9th, 2006 at 9:19 pm

Rich
You looked beautiful in your spotty shirt and blue crown!
Also lovely to see Mum and her sister Joan (who sadly left us this year.)
Dad would have been amazed to see what could be achieved with his films!!!
I hope you have loads of responses from people who recognise themselves on/in these happy memories!
Mum X

Lesley Says:
August 9th, 2006 at 10:02 pm

Heol = Road
glas nant = blue stream.
BUT in this instance, Glasnant was the family name of the local family doctors who operated in Killay
Iorwerth Jones and Gwent Jones were highly respected doctors who founded the Killay Surgery. Iorwerth died as a reeult, aledgedly, of overwork during the Asian Flu Epedemic in the late 1950’s. Gwent went on for a while after. The family home was Olchfa House, (now a restaurant), next door to Olchfa shcool.
Gryffudd ap Gwent (son of Gwent) was, I believe prominent in Plaid Cymru for a while in the sixties

Kath Says:
August 14th, 2006 at 12:43 pm

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I saw my grandparents June and Trevor Petherbridge. My grandfather sadly passed away last year. I know my mother would love to see this and my daughter when she’s old enough to appreciate it. Would it be possible for you to email the clip to me. Thanks.

Rich Says:
August 14th, 2006 at 3:47 pm

Hi Kath! I’ve uploaded the video to Google so that downloading and keeping a copy should be easy.

Just…

click on the little Google button in the video player,
select Go to Google Video from the little menu that pops up,
once you’re on the Google page, you’ll see a Download button which should let you choose your preferred format.

An alternative way of finding the videos on google is to search Google Video for the word Wimmerfield.

Lesley Says:
August 14th, 2006 at 5:42 pm

Hi kath
Your grandmother is also in the Wimmerfield Crescent Garden Party on Rich’s site

Lesley Says:
August 15th, 2006 at 1:42 pm

I’ve noticed another old friend of mine standing talking by our gate. She is Jennifer Milne (Jen), formerly Jennifer Rigden, of Sketty
Her daughter Rebecca Milne came to our street party, I think, as they lived on Gower Goad where obviously a party was out of the question.

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