Sound Recording, Glamorgan

Description

Ceridwen Thomas offers recollections of her childhood in early twentieth century Treorchy - World War One, housework, gardening; also, childbirth; parental discipline; miners' strikes; Rhondda cake; Stay-In strike of 1934; the Welsh language; Chapel and Sunday School [fault - interference - low recording level for 1 minute] outings to Barry, Aberavon and Porthcawl (by train); local girls leaving for work (in service) in London; custom and belief - no work done on New Year's Day or Good Friday (wash on New Year's Day, you wash your soul away and you'll be washing for the rest of the year). 4 of 5.

Metadata

Identifier nzyy9dmv
IRN 414112
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A062
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/nzyy9dmv
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Crook, Rosemary
Date 22 February 1980
Size and Medium 1 audiocassette., Duration: 44' 02".

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