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Deans was short, my Gee told me

BRENDAN Gallagher’s recent article about the 1905 All Blacks invoked a memory. My grandfather Morgan only went to one rugby game in his life, and that was Wales versus New Zealand in 1905.
His family were lead and silver miners and he migrated to the Welsh ‘Klondike’, the Rhondda Valley in 1901 for ‘big money’ (£2 7s 6d per week). He had no knowledge or interest in rugby football; his main passion was singing and what little spare time he had (they worked six ten-hour shifts) was spent in choir practice at the Wesleyan Methodist chapel. His friend Id...

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