00:00 Hi, I'm Dorothy Harrison. Until the reorganisation of the churches I was Church Warden and then
00:05 laterally Assistant Church Warden. When the church closed we were really concerned about
00:11 what was going to happen to the furniture that's in it but mainly the windows, particularly
00:16 Ethel Rowan's four windows that were in memory of her. The thought that these might end up
00:22 being broken, her daughter Caroline was absolutely devastated. And then Neil Cook, who's the
00:28 director, decided that this particular Saturday last summer we'd have a come and get what
00:33 you want and an awful lot of people from various churches turned up. Kerry, it was the first
00:39 time I met Kerry and when she actually said that she was responsible for the restoration
00:44 of this chapel in Llys Emytrae and these windows would be absolutely perfect for the... She's
00:49 worked so hard to organise everything to raise the money and then to get to the stage where
00:55 we are today where the windows are actually coming out. We can actually see some kind
01:00 of closure and it's just exactly what we wanted. Ethel was a stalwart at this church. She was
01:09 head teacher at St Mary's School. The dates I don't know. But she'd sit on the third row
01:16 from the back pew and nobody would dare sit in her seat. She was very particular in what
01:23 happened. There were certain hymns that, for example, All Things Bright and Beautiful,
01:28 that she'd slam the hymn book shut and say, "I refuse to sing that. I've sung it enough
01:32 at school." I suppose in some respect it was like the law according to Ethel. Nobody dare
01:38 argue with her. You couldn't call her anything else but Mrs Round. You had to show respect.
01:44 When she was 90, I'm sure it was either, it couldn't have been her own, it was her 90th
01:48 birthday. We had a party at Wiggaliffe Theatre. She was very involved with the theatre. In
01:55 fact, there's a bench there in memory of her with a photograph above and I think it says
02:01 memory of Ethel or Ethel's bench. But you learn an awful lot when you sit. It was Malcolm
02:08 Forrest who was the rector at the time who was interviewing her. He didn't realise just
02:12 how much she'd seen, how much she'd done and how much she'd been involved with. It was
02:18 amazing. She was a remarkable woman.
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