Barbara has 5 children, Angela, Clifford, Karen, Zoe and Richard. Zoe is the same age as Hilary. Croesengan became too small and so they moved down the mountain to Ffrith - Wen, a little nearer to Colwyn Bay. It was basically a sheep farm, but as this requires hired labour Lindsay rented out most of his fields and went in for chickens. The idea was that he would raise young chicks up to the laying stage, and then sell them to egg producers. There would be about 2,000 chickens in the hut at any one time. The project started with disaster. There had to be a very large special hut and the night after it had been erected there was a hurricane and the hut was destroyed, but unfortunately it was not scheduled for insurance until the following day and so Lindsay had a big financial loss because the chicks were on their way from Scotland and a second hut had to be hurriedly built.
After the four eldest children had moved away - marriage etc., - Lindsay turned the spare bedrooms into self-contained holiday flatlets, cleared the ground behind the house and turned it into a caravan site with water, gas, electricity and drainage. He acted as an agent for caravan suppliers, on occasion bought and sold caravans, rented permanent plots to people with their own caravans, sold them eggs, milk, electricity and Calor Gas. This seemed to pay off, and so he closed up the chicken business.
Lindsay was about 10 years older than Barbara and they retired to a house in Old Colwyn, 'Rosslyn' in Endsleigh Road. When they moved in I gave them the nameplate on the front wall for a Christmas present.
They then had to find other things to do, for it must have been very strange living in a town after more than 50 years living on isolated farms on the mountain-side. They joined a Rambling Club which went for organised walks in Snowdonia. One day Barbara, who had hurt her ankle on a previous walk, stayed at home and Lindsay went off on his own with the rest of the Club. The next thing that Barbara knew was a news item on Radio Wales, followed by a telephone call saying that Lindsay had fallen down a mountain-side and had to be rescued by helicopter but was dead. The Post Mortem showed that he had had a heart attack and was dead before he fell, so could have felt no pain before he fell. It was just as well that she was at home and did not see it happen.
Barbara still lives at 'Rosslyn' with the youngest son Richard, who is a sad case. While Barbara was'carrying him she caught Rubella (German Measles) and he was born deformed. One eye is U/S and the other one is none too good, neither is his bone structure. He crooks his neck to see properly, but there is nothing wrong with his brain, although all his school years were a great problem to him and he is still catching up. I do not think he will greatly improve and he will always be a burden to Barbara as he must always have been. He has tried all sorts of projects without much success, even though he has done them conscientiously.
When they moved to Old Colwyn, Lindsay invested in two small shops for Richard to look after. One was a general hardware store and the other was on the other side of the road, a bread/cake shop with some fruit machines in the back room. When Lindsay died there were some legal and tax complications and Richard had to wait a long time before he could dispose of them and get a Disability Pension from the State. It is all cleared up now but at the time it must have been a worrying time for Barbara.
Lindsay came from a very large farming family. His brother, Dick, has a very large farm near Croesengan and is reputed to be a millionaire.