I’m not sure why it should be so but since discovering Umsinga I have grown in my curiosity about the house.
In North Road now, it was once Gordon Terrace and may have become Umsinga in the 1920′s. The kind and thorough archivist (Gwyneth Roberts) at Ceredigion County Archives has unearthed rates books from the last century helping us sketch a picture of Sea Captains owning and renting many of the properties overlooking Victoria Gardens.
And today at Robert Pugh’s Antique Fair at Carmarthen Showground I found a postcard of the Gardens dated 1908 a smudgy figure seated by the bandstand and through the trees the gable and the bay windows of our home.
£5 for the few seconds, one hundred years ago, that photograher J. Clougher of Cardigan (or his son) opened and closed the shutter.