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William James and Alice Jane Bass lived at 40 Elm Street, Cardiff from about 1912 until 1953. Despite his disability - he had a tuberculous left hip joint which made his left leg shorter and caused him pain - he carried on a business as a light haulier. He started with a horse and graduated to a Ford Model T lorry. This area suffered bomb damage during WW2. See this web site.
 
an example of my grandfather's business billhead - click for larger image At first, he used a horse and cart, later he had a Ford Model T lorry. The property had a rear entrance on to Elm Street Lane. Perhaps a third of the garden length was taken up by a two storey building which provided a stable, later a garage, with a workshop above. The front of 40 Elm Street, Roath Cardiff.taken in 1999 - click for larger image
A view of the front of 40 Elm Street, Roath Cardiff taken in 1999.

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 The rear entrance of 40 Elm St, Roath, Cardiff - click for larger image The rear view of 40 Elm St, showing the door that I watched my grandfather install in the 1940s. I still have a key to the wicket door somewhere. It was just behind the car in the  view of Elm Street Lane below taken in 1999. View of Elm Street Lane taken in 1999 - click for larger imageTo the left was a "bombed patch" Another view of the rear entrance to 40 Elm St after demolition - click for larger image A view of the rear of 40 Elm St, taken in 1997 after the garage had been demolished. Photo of a roughly restored 1926 Ford Model T lorry - click for larger image This is what a (restored) Ford Model T lorry looks like. The cab should have oval side windows to my recollection, and the windscreen was split in the middle, horizontally, and could be rotated.
Porthkerry beach looking towards Cold Knap Point and Barry - click for larger image Porthkerry beach looking towards Cold Knap Point and Barry. This photo was also taken in the 1970s.
         
Porthkerry (near Barry South Wales) is where we stayed, with our Cardiff grandparents, for the summer holidays, in a tent outside Porthkerry House, in the 1930s.

Porthkerry (near Barry South Wales) before WWII - click for larger imagePorthkerry House can just be seen amongst the trees in the centre at the top of the picture. Photo: pre WW2

   Porthkerry House from the pebbly beach taken in the 1970s - click for larger image Porthkerry House from the pebbly beach taken in the 1970s. Our tent used to be pitched on a flat area just in front of the house. I remember, as a child, sheltering in the empty house during a storm, watching the lightning.

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   Golden Steps between Porthkerry and Barry. Photo: pre WWII - click for larger image Golden Steps between Porthkerry and Barry. Photo: pre WWII     
Auction of Porthkerry House from The Times 16 May 1928
         

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