Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Third section of Ifor's monologue, with subtitles, transcript, and English translation.
How different were things for preceding generations in London?
Ifor points out that many Welsh-speaking Londoners of his parents’ generation had an exceptional experience of language transmission and maintenance through wartime evacuation as children to the homes of relations in Wales. However, this experience did not necessarily lead to them passing the Welsh language on to their own children in due course, and Ifor is grateful that his own parents bucked that trend. Welsh was used in his own home, though not exclusively, and Easter and summer holidays were always spent with his grandparents in Llanrwst, giving him a northwalian accent, whereas most London Welsh speakers had family connections in the west of the country. Ifor goes on to describe typical migration and occupation patterns amongst Welsh speakers of earlier generations.
Transcript here: multidict.net/cs/12436
Full English translation here: guthan.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ifor-3-translation.pdf
Part of the "Welshman from London" series of videos for the Island Voices "Extensions" series. More information here: guthan.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/ifor-ap-glyn-welshman-from-london
Third section of Ifor's monologue, with subtitles, transcript, and English translation.
How different were things for preceding generations in London?
Ifor points out that many Welsh-speaking Londoners of his parents’ generation had an exceptional experience of language transmission and maintenance through wartime evacuation as children to the homes of relations in Wales. However, this experience did not necessarily lead to them passing the Welsh language on to their own children in due course, and Ifor is grateful that his own parents bucked that trend. Welsh was used in his own home, though not exclusively, and Easter and summer holidays were always spent with his grandparents in Llanrwst, giving him a northwalian accent, whereas most London Welsh speakers had family connections in the west of the country. Ifor goes on to describe typical migration and occupation patterns amongst Welsh speakers of earlier generations.
Transcript here: multidict.net/cs/12436
Full English translation here: guthan.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ifor-3-translation.pdf
Part of the "Welshman from London" series of videos for the Island Voices "Extensions" series. More information here: guthan.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/ifor-ap-glyn-welshman-from-london
