Robert Minhinnick
“My Life and Times: Memories of Penyfai” is Ivor Thomas’s description of a tiny south Wales village.
Ivor was my grandfather, and his book, published by Culture & Democracy Press, is launched in the Garden Room, Court Colman Manor, Pen-y-fai, Bridgend CF31 4NG, 7.30pm, Wednesday, April 23rd 2025.
Entry £5, which ensures a copy of this astonishing memoir. Otherwise £10. On sale in SUSSED.
Gardener, miner, rugby-player, Labour councilor, social activist, the centre of much of his life was ‘The Tavern’, the vanished village pub, where he was born. Ivor continues to be an enormous influence on my writing and environmental work.
This memoir, of a man who was born, died and buried in the same street, flares like a firework.
Readings by myself and others of Ivor’s family, with members of Bridgend Writers’ Circle, whose energy has created this event. Music and song from Laura Wainwright, in the gorgeous surroundings of the Garden Room.
