SPIRIT OF PENLEY
Twentieth century in photographs
By Derrick and Shirley Pratt
To open this book is to time travel back to the faces, fields, and buildings, that were Penley of the long past. When it was an ancient rural idyll, Penley through the war years, when it was thrust abruptly into the twentieth century, and its journey to the present day, “tale of two villages’, It documents the change from a little welsh agricultural back water. It is named after the seventh century king of the Mercians, Penda, to a sudden transformation in1942. At that time two huge United States army hospitals were built there. The village was filling up with vast number of strangers and a need for new and better roads was created. New industries and increased housing facilities too were required. The whole story is being told through the help of the photographs. Family groups whose ancestors have been Penley people for centuries. Farmers and neatly dressed children. The changing appearance of the pub. Dramatic building of the hospitals. Ranks of doctors and surgeons. Again in 1945 Polish army replaced the Americans. They were really making the little welsh village as their home. Compare the rather feudal rent dinners held in the pub. There the lady tenants were allowed but they had to eat separately from the men that meaning in the kitchen itself. After the integration of the Polish integration into the Penley life, running occupational therapy workshops in carpentry and cobbling kept the village well shod. The religious festivals and the dances they brought along with them and the Polskie echo.
Twentieth century in photographs
By Derrick and Shirley Pratt
To open this book is to time travel back to the faces, fields, and buildings, that were Penley of the long past. When it was an ancient rural idyll, Penley through the war years, when it was thrust abruptly into the twentieth century, and its journey to the present day, “tale of two villages’, It documents the change from a little welsh agricultural back water. It is named after the seventh century king of the Mercians, Penda, to a sudden transformation in1942. At that time two huge United States army hospitals were built there. The village was filling up with vast number of strangers and a need for new and better roads was created. New industries and increased housing facilities too were required. The whole story is being told through the help of the photographs. Family groups whose ancestors have been Penley people for centuries. Farmers and neatly dressed children. The changing appearance of the pub. Dramatic building of the hospitals. Ranks of doctors and surgeons. Again in 1945 Polish army replaced the Americans. They were really making the little welsh village as their home. Compare the rather feudal rent dinners held in the pub. There the lady tenants were allowed but they had to eat separately from the men that meaning in the kitchen itself. After the integration of the Polish integration into the Penley life, running occupational therapy workshops in carpentry and cobbling kept the village well shod. The religious festivals and the dances they brought along with them and the Polskie echo.
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