Sound Recording, Glamorgan

Description

May Jenkins (born Treorchy) talks about her family origins, childhood recollections of domestic routines - washing, describes fireplace and oven, order of washing, ironing, starch, order of hanging washing [male, ?husband/?brother contributes], bathing, breakfast (porridge), broth (?cowl/?caul), baking, Yeast cake, Hot Cross Buns on Good Friday; sleeping arrangements; house fumigated in the Spring; mother's clothing (including clogs and canvas apron); table manners; house cleaning; parental discipline; Welsh language; character of Rhondda women; local girls helping pregnant/confined women; contraception - beliefs about, passed on orally; visiting boxing booths at local fairs; playing rugby with brothers; typhoid epidemic - use of sulphur powder to disinfect clothes - house fumigated annually; miners' strike and Black Helmets (riot police from North Wales); father/brothers all hewers - brother in Stay In strike of 1934; coal deliveries every six weeks; pit clothes kept in a ?cutch under the stairs; bathing; present at Christmas; Chapel penny readings; mutual support within community; political meetings; men offered work if changed Chapel (denomination); prison for incitement to riot; Black Helmets escorting blacklegs to work; no strike pay - living on the parish; Relieving Officer; self sufficiency; community spirit - moral and practical support (e.g. providing food for families following a bereavement). 5 of 5.

Metadata

Identifier c15lxhjd
IRN 414113
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A063
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/c15lxhjd
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Crook, Rosemary
Date 10 April 1980
Size and Medium 1 audiocassette., Duration: 73' 20".

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