My friend Wendy Phillips, who has died aged 81, was a school cleaner, a miner’s wife and an actor from Pontycymer, South Wales, where she lived all her adult life.
She was born a mile away, in the village of Blaengarw, the daughter of Llew Morgans, a coalminer, and his wife, Salina. Wendy attended Blaengarw girls’ school and took her first job at Goldblatts the chemist in Pontycymer.