1769.
James Watt invented the steam engine. Captain James Cook, set sail for the South Seas. The Prime Minister divorces his wife then marries his lover. Some things never change.
It was on a crisp Sunday morning, October the first, 1769 when John and Jane Esmond took their daughter Rebekha to the church at the village of Burton in Pembrokeshire. It was the day of her Holy baptism. Afterwards, maybe they stood a while, and small as she was, maybe Rebekha gazed at the wonderful view of the end of the silver ribbon of the river estuary quietly meandering towards Milford Haven and the sea. Perhaps she noticed the pub,
The Jolly Sailor…………..shut…………….Sunday.
Rebekha’s mother and father looking so proud, wearing their Sunday best with the baby wrapped in a Welsh shawl as they sang to the tiny child.
In and out the dusty bluebells.