Sioni Winwns - A Breton onion salesman on the corner of Heol Niwbwrch
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Sioni Winwns - A Breton onion salesman on the corner of Heol Niwbwrch
Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 19 Oct 2007
This is a street scene that I have not witnessed for almost half a century. The Breton onion salesmen were familiar figures in the slate quarrying communities of my childhood, selling from door to door in a mixture of Welsh and Breton (Breton being Welsh spoken with a French accent, or at least that's what we kids were led to believe - in reality, it is slightly more complex than that). Even so, Y Lydaweg (the Breton language) and Y Gymraeg (Welsh) are closely related. In those days the Bretons who came to North West Wales made their base at Tremadog Town Hall, now a high fashion store Image https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/waleshistory/2012/03/johnny_onions_breton_onion_sellers.html
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Image Location
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52.994126
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-3.934612