Hello, Bryan,
Well, this is a real longshot, but I am trying to trace Albert John Phillips and I see
from your letter that there is a mention of someone being in the Merchant Navy in 1940,
which is the same era as John Phillips would have been in .... so is there any possibility
1) that that person would know John or 2) would you be able at all to help me try and find
him through some Merchant Navy site? I understand his ship was torpedoed by the germans
during WW2 and he was an actor and singer, born in Cardiff in 1923/24
Any help would be much appreciated and thank you for your time,
Jonathan Hutchings, born John Hugh Morgan Phillips and then adopted.
Voice: Rare exports,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JIz7I5yzwQ
Jonathan Hutchings
+358 (0)40 7201570
Acting, Voice, Teaching, Translating, Bands, etc
Dictum:
http://www.dictum.fi/speakers/index.php
--- On Mon, 14/12/09, Bryan Richards <bryanrichards(a)btinternet.com> wrote:
From: Bryan Richards <bryanrichards(a)btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: [WLS-SWANSEA] Swansea Sailors Home
To: wls-swansea(a)rootsweb.com
Date: Monday, 14 December, 2009, 17:04
http://www.swanseaheritage.net/swanseathroughtheyears/gat.asp?A_ID=233
There is a photograph of the Adelaide Hotel ruins with a partial view of the
sailors home behind it
Peter Williams ( Swansea )
October 12, 2005
I used to live in the building in the background, The Sailor's Home. My
parents were the caretakers and it was demolished after we moved out.
Message 1 - swansea wales 3 nights of blitz spring 1941
Posted on: 17 May 2005 by happyGramps
Hello,I was in the Merchant Navy (by accident) I sailed from Halifax
Dec.1940 and spent Christmas half way to Swansea where I had a room in the
sailors home down by the tracks.We lost the convoy and arrived alone.
<D/D FHE 12/1-7> Plans of lots 1-59, 65-77 for sale by auction by W. J.
Rees, 1891, showing location of Baptist Court, Caer Street, Calvert Street,
Carlton Terrace, Castle Square, Castle Street, Church Street, College
Street, Cradock Street, Cross Street, De la Beche Street, Fisher Street,
Frog Court, Frog Street, Greenfield Street, Goat Street, Heathfield, High
Street, King Street, Little Wind Street, Morris Lane, Mount Pleasant, Mount
Street, Nelson Street, Nelson Terrace, Neptune Court, Orange Street, Orchard
Street, Oxford Street, Pleasant Street, St Mary's Street, Strand, Temple
Street, Tower Lane, Union Street, Victoria Road, Wassail Street, Waterloo
Street, Wind Street and York Street; General Picton, King's Arms, Lord
Jersey, Orange Tree, Rose and Crown, Royal Albert, Rum Puncheon, Ship and
Castle, Shoulder of Mutton and True Briton public houses; Bush Hotel,
Cameron Arms Hotel, Colosseum Hotel, Old Ivy Bush Inn, Orange Street
Brewery, Royal Hotel and Talbot Hotel; Albert Music Hall, Beaufort Place,
Druslyn House, General Post Office, Glamorganshire Bank, Harbour Offices,
Mercantile Marine Offices and Sailors' Home, Mount Zion Chapel, new Market,
old Wind Street Station, Russel House, Sailors Institution, St Mary's
Church, Swansea Bank, theatre, 'The Willows', Wesleyan Chapel and Windsor
Lodge. Scale : 41.66 feet to 1 inch. 1891
[7 plans
the Sailors' Home (1864)
Sorry not much else I can find
Regards
Bryan
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