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- Pontardualais Town Council
Vera Bassett held her first one-woman exhibition in the Hendy Urdd Centre in 1943, followed by others at the Mechanics Institute in the Bont in 1948 and the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, in 1949. She was born on the Fforest, Pontardulais, in 1912, and lived in Glenview and, after 1946, at 7, Fforest Road. Her parents were William John Bassett, a furniture salesman, and Mary Sarah Lloyd – they married in 1907. They had six children, of whom Vera was the youngest. She married William Owen Reynolds in 1956 and the moved to Bury Port in 1969. Vera died in 1997. In 1938 her sister, Edna, married Gethin Morgan, who later ran the Spot newsagent’s shop on St. Teilo Street. His father, J. Rhys Morgan, had established the Spot newspaper about 1920. It ran to 1938.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1912 - 1997 (84 years)