"I think because they were farmers and they didn't have a lot, they were determined," said Ida. The 94-year-old woman is sat at her kitchen table in Clydach, drinking a cup of tea and flicking through a photo album filled with old portraits of her Italian family.
Black and white photographs from trips to rural Italy when she was a little girl show her family posing next to farm animals in the Italian countryside. But as Ida Morgan turns the pages of the album, we are then transported to early twentieth century industrial Wales.
Stood outside a cafe and tobacconists in the Swansea valley, three brothers pose in front of their new business venture looking defiant and ready to embark on a new chapter worlds away from their humble beginnings in rural Italy. Over a hundred years later, their great-grandchildren are still fighting to keep their dream alive. You can get more Swansea news and other story updates straight to your inbox by subscribing to our newsletters here.
