One of nine children
Albert Thomas was my father.
He like all the family and most of North West Wales spoke Welsh as his mother tongue. He worked in the slate mines of Blaenau Ffestiniog with his father and brothers before the second world war. He contracted pneumonia and was very ill, having worked in the mines for seven years.
His parents insisted that he leave the mines and he went to Birmingham and met and married Mom during the Second World War.
So lived the rest of his life in Birmingham where we all lived as a family (he missed Blaenau very much). He was a talented musician and played the piano beautifully. He also played the piano accordian (there is a photograph of him playing with a band). He played in dance bands in Wales before the War. The piece of music I most liked to hear him play was Rachmaninov's 'Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini'.
He was basically a clever man - very good at maths also, but never had chance to go to university.
Worked as a gear inspector with Alvis Motor Co. at Coventry.
The family worked at the Votty and Bowyd Quarries.
Albert married Living
Their children were:
i. Malcolm Thomas (born on 18 Aug 1960 in Birmingham - died in 1987 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.)
ii. Living
iii. Living
iv. Living
