Sound Recording, Monmouthshire
Description
Frank Corton, recorded in Newport [niece and wife also present]; talks about his work as a crane operator in Newport Docks; emptying/banking iron ore from ships; lists jobs on leaving school; describes his first day of work at the docks, aged fifteen; tipping iron ore; use of (hydraulic) grabs and the time taken to empty a ship; modern electric grabs and the amount emptied; decline in the numbers of men employed; employers, work situation, wages; the Dock Labour Board; the General Strike of 1926; wife talks about family and child-rearing; neighbourliness (past/present); the dole and the Means Test; inconsistency of employment situation and job security; football; refereeing baseball matches; length of dock service; sufferance money on retirement; pension; describes shovelling ore from the corners of a hold, for the grab to reach; pub/club singing; working hours; labour relations; working conditions; shovelling ore; thoughts on life; wife's work at the docks in the General Office. Mr. Corton continues with talk of his family; marriage; describes Newport docks; talks of changes in the cargoes docked; manual nature of the job, compared with present work methods; loading ammunition during World War Two; tallow candle lighting in the ships' holds; overtime; working half turns; [gap, two minutes]; biographical information - parents, grandparents (from Antwerp); wife lists local families and inter-relations; Mr. Corton's siblings.
Metadata
| Identifier | ptsw33m5 |
| IRN | 414876 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A825r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/ptsw33m5 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | [1970] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 35' 57". |