Summer Journal 1951

by Gwyn Williams

In 2004 to celebrate Gwyn Williams's centenary his daughters, Teleri Williams and Lowri Gwilym, edited his Summer Journal 1951. Illustrated by photographs and drawings by Gwyn and his artist wife Daisy, the Journal has an Introduction and an Afterword written by Teleri and Lowri which outline Gwyn's life from his childhood in Port Talbot, through his working life in North Africa and Turkey and to his retirement in Wales. Mynydd Bach, an area of unspoilt moorland in Ceredigion and the setting for Summer Journal, was his spiritual and ancestral home to which he always returned. In 1951 he and Daisy spent one of many home leaves living there in a remote cottage and Gwyn describes a now vanished life in which he cut peat on the mountain, hunted and fished, observed wildlife and the migration of birds, and made hay in traditional style surrounded by friends and relatives.

Summer Journal 1951 is published by Planet Books at £5.75.

ISBN 0-9540881-2-3

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Gwyn and Daisy Williams on Mynydd Bach, 1951