There was some writing in the front, from people in Wales as she said farewell, but as a child I wasn’t really interested.
I wish I could go back now though and see what they had written.
On my paternal side, the roots are from Radnorshire. When people ask me, are you north or south, I say neither. I’m mid.
George Manley was a miner and he met a girl called Sarah from Alberbury, which is right on the Montgomeryshire/Shropshire border.
Some of their children went back to Wales, others across Shropshire and the latter is where my family tree evolved.