Everyone loves to reminisce and think about âsimpler times,â and no one knows this more than Donald Houston. Today, the retired EMSB administrator lives in Dorval with his wife, and their three grown sons and grandson all live close by around Montreal.
But back in the 1950s, Houston was living in the heart of Lachine, experiencing, evidently, what so many people were in that era, and the pandemic presented a unique opportunity to put pen to paper and start writing stories about living in those times.
âIt was COVID lockdown last summer and I was looking for something to do, so I just started to jot some ideas down,â he explained. âLuckily, my wife was a former editor, so Iâd write a chapter and send it over to her and sheâd spend hours editing it properly. And slowly, we built it up in bits and pieces.â
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There was always something rather cosy and cup-of-tea-ish about Ealing comedies and this 1949 comedy about two Welsh colliers who win a £200 newspaper contest price plus a trip to London to watch the England vs. Wales rugby match at Twickenham Stadium is no exception.
On the whole the kind of people who inhabit these films no longer exist if indeed they ever did in these immediate post-war films. Here we have two Welsh brothers, David Dai Number 9 Jones (Donald Houston) and Thomas Twm Jones (Meredith Edwards) winning a contest run by the fictitious London newspaper The Echo - the prize being a hundred quid each and coveted tickets for a Wales vs. England rugby match at Twickenham. The lads in question have the misfortune (not that they see it that way) to live in a little Welsh Colliery town with an unpronounceable name (obviously there will be jokes a-plenty arising from this) and work as you would expect down the mine . They are actually brought up from the pit
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