Sound Recording, Glamorgan

Description

Recording made in Llwynypia ; Edith Jones and Eunice King (both born and lived in Ystrad, Glamorgan); family biographies; describe domestic routine, washing/making clothes (childhood recollections of family life); Sunday School outings; Welsh cake; Chapel events; sleeping arrangements; mealtimes; baking; allotments; music/song; Christmas; women's role in the community - neighbourliness; mining accidents; women's involvement in the Union; strikes - coal picking, blacklegs, relief/Relieving Officer; job opportunities for girls; education ( Pentre Grammar School); domestic service (wages) in Tonypandy and Porthcawl - duties, free time; attitudes to mining work/dangers; childbirth, midwives, feeding babies. 2 of 5.

Metadata

Identifier mtqb8v7m
IRN 414110
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A060
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/mtqb8v7m
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Crook, Rosemary
Date 8 January 1980
Size and Medium 1 audiocassette., Duration: 74' 14".

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