Mum as a child family group

" I was born on the 24th January 1928, in the front bedroom of our double-fronted house at 16 Gordon Road, Ealing. I was christened Margaret Vinson Thomas in St Peter's church. Margaret after the church in Roath Park where my Welsh parents were married, and Vinson, the family name handed down through my father's side of the family since the Napoleonic Wars. This was when my ancestor George Thomas married Ann Vinson. Their children were given Vinson as a second name and so it has continued, and I hope will continue through future generations. I had a big sister, Beryl Vinson Thomas, and should have had a brother, James Vinson, but sadly my mother miscarried (due to being frightened by a mouse, I was told!)... My mother was Hilda Mary Elizabeth Thomas and she had three brothers, Herbert; Russell; and Clifford. My mother's mother - Ada Weeks - lived with us and I grew to love and respect my Victorian grandmother, the only one of my grandparents that I remember. Mam was very strict but gave me lots of love and I had a very happy childhood. Sometimes I got into bed with my mam and would watch my dad getting dressed, which I loved, especially the long woolen button-up chillproof combinations and long socks with little suspenders round his calves to keep them up. My favourite times though were snucking up in bed with my granna in the morning. She was a big cuddly lady and used to tell me nursery rhymes and stories of when she was a little girl. She had lived on a farm in Blackwood, Monmouth with her two sisters Jenny and Harriett. They used to play circuses and ride the horses bareback. Her dad was a landowner (who I believe won a carved chair gambling off the Duke of Monmouth). I was fascinated when she got up and stood bare in front of the cheval mirror, massaging her fat away with a thing like a rolling pin with red rubber nipples and wooden handles (hanging in my lounge now!)... "