no Sandy , not from Wales originally. My parents were from Stonebridge and Acton in London , and as my dad was in the army I was born in Catterick army hospital . But I then spent the next few years between Yorkshire , Chelsea and Germany , till I was 5 then lived the next 15 years in Ruislip (near Southall ) , right next to Northolt airport ( which is where they bought Diana PoW's body back to England , when she died.) My house was about 400 yards from where the plane stopped round the back of the airport . Northolt airport was one of my playgrounds as a kid . I used to climb over the fence and play in the old airplanes they had there , and in the old WW2 tower that was still there then , looks to have gone now though . I used to get arrested regularly by the RAF police and taken into the guard room where they would give me tea and biscuits...the reason I got on ok with them was during the war my granddad was a guard there . He was already in his mid 60's ish then , and he was known as pop Russell . They still had pictures up on the wall of him, in the guard room and in other places around the camp . Funny that he should work there in the war while he was living in Acton , and that the estate where I was to grow up was still fields !!
I came to Wales though when I was 20 in 1977 . Mum and Dad moved here with all the kids , 7 of us , but I was only going to stay till they had settled in , and then go back to Rayner's lane where I had a flat over a greengrocers shop !!! But that all went tits up and I am still here...lol
So now you know ....
cheers
Russ