Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy
78: Esther Weller
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My guest this week is Esther Weller, Chair of the Lampeter Society who was a student in Lampeter in the mid to late 90s. Esther was born in London but then moved to Wales when she was six months old and grew up in the South Wales Valleys. We learn that she wanted to find out about her family background before it is too late and we find out what she found out. Esther talks about her father’s Jewish background and about her family’s association with a betting club and the community aspect around Passover. In terms of earliest memories, Esther remembers her first day of school and having milk in the playground and how she was to lose a teacher to cancer. She has strong memories of her maternal grandmother and we discover what it was like to go to university from an all girls’ school where she wasn’t used to being around boys and why Lampeter was very much a ‘hidden gem’. We talk about the growth of coffee shop culture in recent years and how students don’t drink alcohol so much anymore. As a child she l