| Princess Lillian of Sweden 20:31 - May 6 with 5768 views | jack2jack |
Enjoying the sunshine today and flicking through the Sunday suppliments,came across this story. Very interesting and a connection with Swansea which I had never heard of.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-21739041 |  | | |  |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 00:20 - May 7 with 5554 views | Highjack |
I might be a little bit pissed but how has she died aged 97 if she was born in 1915? |  |
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| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 00:24 - May 7 with 5546 views | theloneranger |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 00:20 - May 7 by Highjack |
I might be a little bit pissed but how has she died aged 97 if she was born in 1915? |
I just realised, the article is from 2013 😂😂 |  |
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| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 00:43 - May 7 with 5526 views | Highjack |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 00:24 - May 7 by theloneranger |
I just realised, the article is from 2013 😂😂 |
I can put the calculator away then.
RIP YJB + Massive Swans fan. | |
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| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 13:28 - May 7 with 5295 views | jack2jack |
Sorry I didn't imply she'd just passed away.
Just thought it was an interesting connection to Swansea.
I had no idea of the story, interesting none the less I thought.
Enjoy the sunshine fellas 👠| | | |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 13:54 - May 7 with 5261 views | Ambergambler |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 13:28 - May 7 by jack2jack |
Sorry I didn't imply she'd just passed away.
Just thought it was an interesting connection to Swansea.
I had no idea of the story, interesting none the less I thought.
Enjoy the sunshine fellas 👠|
I vaguely remember seeing a programme on this, amazing character and story. |  | | |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 14:00 - May 7 with 5250 views | FieryJack |
Where in Swansea was she from?
St. Thomas? |  | | |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 14:39 - May 7 with 5220 views | jack2jack |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 14:00 - May 7 by FieryJack |
Where in Swansea was she from?
St. Thomas? |
Dunno Fj can't find that info,her father was a trader in the market though, I'll do some more digging later | | | |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 14:43 - May 7 with 5205 views | theloneranger |
"Lillian May Davies, was born in her grandparents home 3 Garden Street, Swansea on 30 August 1915, a month or two after her parents' marriage."
http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s8-BERT-LIL-1915.html | |
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| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 15:48 - May 7 with 5158 views | FieryJack |
Interesting.
There's a Garden Street bang in the middle of Swansea at the back of Debenhams - presume, if this was the place she was born - that it would have been full of terraced housing in 1915 - and that it was obliterated in the 3 nights of bombing in Feb 1942. | | | |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 09:48 - May 8 with 4879 views | GreatBritton |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 15:48 - May 7 by FieryJack |
Interesting.
There's a Garden Street bang in the middle of Swansea at the back of Debenhams - presume, if this was the place she was born - that it would have been full of terraced housing in 1915 - and that it was obliterated in the 3 nights of bombing in Feb 1942. |
Garden Street (best misnomer ever - a slum of terraced hovels) was notobliterated in 1942. I lived in Plymouth Street just opposite the horrific maw of this dishevelled pit of misery in the fifties and sixties. Kids in vests but nothing else used to play in the dirt on their doorsteps whilst their inebriated fathers or stepfathers fought and drank their way to their own particular obliteration. I'm no fan of Swansea town planners but even they saw that this could not continue into the latter part of the brightly coloured swinging sixties. |  | | |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 11:33 - May 8 with 4790 views | Lohengrin |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 09:48 - May 8 by GreatBritton |
Garden Street (best misnomer ever - a slum of terraced hovels) was notobliterated in 1942. I lived in Plymouth Street just opposite the horrific maw of this dishevelled pit of misery in the fifties and sixties. Kids in vests but nothing else used to play in the dirt on their doorsteps whilst their inebriated fathers or stepfathers fought and drank their way to their own particular obliteration. I'm no fan of Swansea town planners but even they saw that this could not continue into the latter part of the brightly coloured swinging sixties. |
“I lived in Plymouth Street just opposite the horrific maw of this dishevelled pit of misery in the fifties and sixties.” 
If I had the wherewithal I’d commission you to write a book on post-war Swansea, Sir. ‘Attlee’s children.’ That’s the working title that leaps out at me. I’ve already worked out my pitch to BBC Wales for the film rights.  |  |
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| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 14:25 - May 8 with 4709 views | theloneranger |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 09:48 - May 8 by GreatBritton |
Garden Street (best misnomer ever - a slum of terraced hovels) was notobliterated in 1942. I lived in Plymouth Street just opposite the horrific maw of this dishevelled pit of misery in the fifties and sixties. Kids in vests but nothing else used to play in the dirt on their doorsteps whilst their inebriated fathers or stepfathers fought and drank their way to their own particular obliteration. I'm no fan of Swansea town planners but even they saw that this could not continue into the latter part of the brightly coloured swinging sixties. |
The Gardeners...public house in Garden Street.
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| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 14:40 - May 8 with 4695 views | Ebo |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 00:43 - May 7 by Highjack |
I can put the calculator away then.
RIP YJB + Massive Swans fan. |
Did you borrow your calculator from Pikey? |  |
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| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 15:26 - May 8 with 4653 views | LeonWasGod |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 00:20 - May 7 by Highjack |
I might be a little bit pissed but how has she died aged 97 if she was born in 1915? |
It's the inverse Bony effect. |  | | |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 15:28 - May 8 with 4649 views | Highjack |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 14:40 - May 8 by Ebo |
Did you borrow your calculator from Pikey? |
No, his says “Made in Britain” on it so it probably doesn’t work. | |
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| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 10:01 - May 12 with 4436 views | GreatBritton |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 11:33 - May 8 by Lohengrin |
“I lived in Plymouth Street just opposite the horrific maw of this dishevelled pit of misery in the fifties and sixties.”
If I had the wherewithal I’d commission you to write a book on post-war Swansea, Sir. ‘Attlee’s children.’ That’s the working title that leaps out at me. I’ve already worked out my pitch to BBC Wales for the film rights. |
Thank you, but I would not be able to say much about the town because I spent many years hiding indoors because it would plainly have been madness to brave those streets. Also, Attlee prepared the ground for the eventual amelioration of society. Eden and Macmillan not so much. | | | |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 12:15 - May 12 with 4388 views | Lohengrin |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 10:01 - May 12 by GreatBritton |
Thank you, but I would not be able to say much about the town because I spent many years hiding indoors because it would plainly have been madness to brave those streets. Also, Attlee prepared the ground for the eventual amelioration of society. Eden and Macmillan not so much. |
After a hasty rewrite I’ve come up with ‘a view from the box room window: memoir of an adolescent voyeur.’ This scenario sees you confined to your room recovering from a bout of TB with a pen, paper and battered astronomer’s telescope. There you sit day after day, night after night bearing witness to the movement of the heavens and the comings and goings of the neighbourhood.
Shades of Hitchcock in there, but instead of a murder you get to see bomb damage made good, hopscotch on the pavements and gardeners with bucket and scuttle following the dray horse up the road as you sit there sipping Ovaltine as the sound of Harry Lime theme and Dickie Valentine waft from a poorly-tuned wireless.  | |
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| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 14:02 - May 12 with 4325 views | Loyal |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 00:20 - May 7 by Highjack |
I might be a little bit pissed but how has she died aged 97 if she was born in 1915? |
I'd flick through her sunday supplement.
Get some margarine on her inner flaps and she will be as supple and receptive as a 76 year old. |  |
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| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 14:09 - May 12 with 4318 views | FieryJack |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 09:48 - May 8 by GreatBritton |
Garden Street (best misnomer ever - a slum of terraced hovels) was notobliterated in 1942. I lived in Plymouth Street just opposite the horrific maw of this dishevelled pit of misery in the fifties and sixties. Kids in vests but nothing else used to play in the dirt on their doorsteps whilst their inebriated fathers or stepfathers fought and drank their way to their own particular obliteration. I'm no fan of Swansea town planners but even they saw that this could not continue into the latter part of the brightly coloured swinging sixties. |
Sounds terrific.
Positively Dickensian.
Wonder if there are any photos of this street around.
If it still existed it would be some sort of tourist attraction.
I mean, since all the 20th century slum clearances, poverty has been sanitised and the sink estates are just visually characterless.
Joking aside, Lillian did well to become a Swedish princess after being born in such a hell-hole. | | | |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 14:31 - May 12 with 4300 views | Highjack |
| Princess Lillian of Sweden on 14:09 - May 12 by FieryJack |
Sounds terrific.
Positively Dickensian.
Wonder if there are any photos of this street around.
If it still existed it would be some sort of tourist attraction.
I mean, since all the 20th century slum clearances, poverty has been sanitised and the sink estates are just visually characterless.
Joking aside, Lillian did well to become a Swedish princess after being born in such a hell-hole. |
The way Sweden is going recently I think old Lil would prefer Garden St. | |
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