Trevor known to everyone just as TC lived at
“Heddfan” Llanfihangel Talyllyn, he was the Headmaster of the two
classroom village school. TC taught the scholarship class, preparing
children to sit the entrance exam for Brecon Boys’ or Girls’ Grammar
School, he was said to be quick tempered. His main loves were amateur
dramatics, gardening and bee-keeping. During the war TC taught the
children how to “double dig” and how to produce the most amount of
vegetables from a small area. He is said to have supplied “Ribena” with
black currants in the early days, and supplied honey in the local area
until late in his life. Mr. Thomas was a former horticultural adviser
with Breconshire County Council.
Trevor Thomas was best known as a prolific writer, one of his first
plays was the widely acclaimed “Sound of Stillness”, a play set in the
1940s on the Eppynt Mountains where the army was forcing local farmers
from their land. TC also founded the Llyn Safaddan Players who twice won
the British Drama League finals and were Welsh regional winners a record
19 times in 21 years. The play was put on in 1952 with Brecon actors,
Gerald James and Jackie Walters taking the lead rolls, it was later
re-staged for BBC Wales by Hollywood director Tony Richardson.
After several serious plays TC was persuaded to try his hand at comedy and
duelled up with his daughter Anne Weale to write “Davy Jones’s Locker”
about life in a railway signal box, they wrote seven plays on that
theme, and he is probably best known for them. Trevor died at his home
on 9th February 1989 aged 92