A slap-up wedding buffet – and a sadly deflated omelette
IN The South Wales Echo edition dated September 23, I asked for your memories of Maindy Stadium.
Mac and Mickey Wilcox who celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary on October 21, and who were married at St David’s Church, Ely, Cardiff, inform me that they held their wedding reception there.
The wedding buffet was supplied through Bobby Woods of the Barry Hotel and they have kept the receipt all this time.
With regard my piece on Sophia Gardens, Bernard Thomas writes: “I recall my late mother taking me to the annual Welsh Ideal Home Exhibition in the 1950s and ‘60s where on one occasion we found this guy demonstrating a new small plastic device with a slot enabling the albumen and yolk of an egg to be separated in the making of an improved raised souffle omelette!
“However when trying to make one at home, we found that once the pan was taken off the heat it deflated!
“I still to this day have it and use it for general cooking purposes.
“On another occasion in the 1950s we went to a quiz programme being recorded there for Radio Luxembourg, a popular music station then before Radio One and FM. The queue snaked right back to Cardiff (Canton) Bridge to the Castle.
“Mother thought we wouldn’t get in but eventually we found raided seats right at the back of the huge hall from where we could hear little of the programme.
“‘Never mind’, said Mum, ‘We can listen in on the wireless.’
“However, the weather was stormy that night of the broadcast and even our Rediffusion cable radio could not eliminate the poor inaudible medium wave reception from this distant European station!”
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