Recorded memoirs of Dick Beamish. Includes a discussion of collieries in the area; effect of shareholders and National Coal Board take overs; profit converted into loss; his family background; first working underground at the age of 14; living in lodgings, and bathing in front of the fire; custom of carrying an injured miner back to his house; working methods and the use of explosives; role of the checkweigher; work load of miners' wives; clothing worn to work; impact of foreign workforces; his army service during World War I; his education; his interest and involvement with the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party; his attitudes to sexuality and morality; the food eaten by mining families; and his general opinions on socialism, communism and economics.
Covers period : 1910-1979 (c).
Running time : 3hrs 10mins 50secs. 1970-1979(c)
Recorded memoirs of Mrs Nellie Jones, Mrs Kitty Williams and Mrs Agnes Owen. They discuss their work experiences in Gurnos Tinplate Works as plate openers, and later in the Royal Ordnance Factory in Bridgend during the War. They also talk generally about their childhoood in Ystradgynlais before the War, parental discipline, poverty, ignorance about sex, and recreation during the evenings.
Covers period : 1920-1975 (c).
Running time : 1hr 36mins 29secs. 23.4.1975
Recorded memoirs of Mrs Roderick, concerning her childhood, youth, and married life in the village before the war. Includes parents; family life; housework; the chapel; morality; outings; pregnancy, childbirth and illegitimacy; and her job as shop assistant until her marriage in 1926.
Covers period : 1910-1950 (c).
Running time : 1hr 21mins. 30.5.1975
Recorded memoirs of David Donovan, mainly concerning the 1984-85 strike. Includes his activities as a washery committee member; activities of pickets; establishment, role, and importance of miners' support groups; the survival of the miners and their families during the strike; and support from the gay and the black communities.
Covers period : 1984 = 1986 (c).
Running time : 1hr 24mins 5secs. 10.4.1986
Recorded memoirs of Hefina Headon concerning the 1984-85 strike. Includes the organisation of support groups; food parcel distribution; strike fund raising; attitudes to women pickets, and attitudes to black-legs; and a general account of the 1984-85 strike.
Covers period : 1980-1986 (c).
Running time : 1hr 4mins 12secs. 19.11.1985
Recorded memoirs of Hefina Headon concerning the 1984-85 strike. Includes the organisation of support groups; food parcel distribution; strike fund raising; attitudes to women pickets, and attitudes to black-legs; and a general account of the 1984-85 strike.
Covers period : 1980-1986 (c).
Running time : 1hr 4mins 12secs. 19.11.1985
Recorded memoirs of Mrs Bessie Webb and Mrs Hannah Evans (sisters). Includes their family background; how mother organised the housework; brothers working in the colliery; injury of their father in a colliery accident; work in Phoenix Tinplate Works during the 1930's; and being sufferers of silicosis.
Covers period : 1920-1975 (c).
Running time : 1hr 2mins 48secs. 24.4.1975
Work description: female civilian war workers recruiting poster
Work location: Imperial War Museum (London, England, United Kingdom)
Work type: posters
Image_Filename: 11081801
Subjects: military / war; War and society; Workers in art; World War I, 1914-1918
Composite Teaching Tape (5).
Edited extracts of interviews concerning women and family life; differences in lifestyles of men and women; how children helped their mother with housework; work as domestic servants and housekeepers; running of a small business. GW's interview discusses the area of Resloven and farming, and the relationship between men and management in the colliery.
Covers period : 1910- 1950 (c).
Running time : 18mins 10secs.
A series of photographs from the school and community workshops, who helped to create the banners and the final unfurling event at the Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea.
VID/132 Women's Day School, Onllwyn.
A women's day school at Onllwyn organised by the Neath, Dulais and Swansea Valley Support Group. There is a video about the dispute at the Hoover factory in Merthyr Tydfil which mainly concerned women workers. This is followed by a discussion about the role of women in the work place. There is a video and discussion about the part women have played in protests from the food riots of the 1790's to the peace protests of the 1980's. The authoress Menna Gallie gives a talk on her early life in Ystradgynlais and Crynant.
Covers period : 1790-1983 (c).
Running time : 180 mins (approx). 25.5.1985
