Daphne Price in Tenby - the 1940's

from Second World War reminiscences of Daphne Price, page 105:

After six months of enduring the east winds blowing on the Norfolk headlands, it was something of a relief to be posted back to Pembrokeshire. I was now attached to the Trials Wing of the School of Artillery... One memorable Saturday I arrived in Tenby to find the streets teeming with American soldiers. The following day, on my weekly visit to the morning service, I found every seat in the church taken by an American. The worship was movingly enriched by a solo from the New World Symphony.
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Daphne Price, Second World War reminiscences of Daphne Price. In Deirdre Beddoe and Leigh Verrill-Rhys (ed.), Parachutes and Petticoats: Welsh women writing on the Second World War (Dinas Powys, 1992), p. 105. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1386354697284 accessed: 22 December, 2024

location of experience: Tenby

Listeners

Daphne Price
military support work

Listening to

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Solo from the New World Symphony
written by Antonín Dvorák

Experience Information

Date/Time the 1940's
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Originally submitted by hgb3 on Fri, 06 Dec 2013 18:31:37 +0000