PHILIP and James (Jim) Jones celebrated their 90th birthday with family and friends at Kinnerton village hall last weekend.

The brothers were born on October 29 1924 at Greenfield House, Huntington on the day of the old Radnorshire Horse Fair when its was snowing. The family home was at Redbough, Newchurch, but the twins' mother Elsie went to her parents' home to give birth.

The boys grew up on the family farm in Newchurch with their parents James and Elsie, their two sisters and two brothers. They went to school in Huntington and later were both in the Home Guard. Philip said that he and Jim worked well together and recalls one day when the two of them went to cut down the biggest oak tree on the farm with an axe and a long saw. “The job took us all day, but we did it in the end and some of the wood was sold to Davies’s of Bucknell”.

Philip was very good at hedging and won several competitions and Jim was a competitor in many local ploughing matches.

Philip went on to farm at Newhouse Farm, Kinnerton with his wife Joan. They had four children Pam, Dorothy, Michael and Christine. Philip now has eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, who were all at the party. Jim farmed at The Caeau Farm near Newchurch with his wife Hilda. The twins' sister Betty Croose was also at the party and said: “Philip and Jim always got on really well, they are lovely boys."