My mother, along with several other girls from the Kidwelly area moved to Birmingham during the war to work at the Castle Bromwich aircraft factory where they built Spitfires. As part of the training they had to have lessons in reading Vernier gauges and micrometers. The instructor, Mr Richards, soon became known as Decimal Dick.
On moving back to Kidwelly in 1980, my father wanted some manure to enrich the vegetable plot that had lain fallow for many years. He asked his mates in the Nelson (pub) who gave him the telephone number of a local stable owner. My mother told him to put it in the phone book. One day, when I was looking through the phone book I noticed the entry - Thomas the Shit.
Michael Prynn, Birmingham
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