![]() ![]() Once I started writing this with David, I raided my father’s book collection. I met Bill at the office of the Cardiff Post, and after I mentioned ‘nostalgia’, a reporter named Martin Donovan quickly intervened (jokily) with ‘Nostalgia?! You mean local history …’ Well yes, Martin, you were right, but at some point, one runs into the other – I note from reading David’s Splott piece that Bill was an influence on him, too, because he was his junior school teacher. When I began reading newspaper pieces on ‘old Cardiff’, I found that Bill Barrett, Brian Lee and Dan O’Neill were a big help, although Dan, of course, does not deal in ‘nostalgia’ alone. From the age of about 12, I had to hear all this stuff, and I suppose at some point during my 20s, I started actually listening to it! There were also recollections from my mother, Joan Withers, and stepfather, Frank Withers. ![]() Much of the information on what Cardiff used to be like came, initially, from conversations with my father Keith Bennett. ![]()
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