Sound Recordings, Glamorgan
Description
Recorded in an Old People's Home in Treorchy ; Gladys Flinn (born Ystrad, Glamorgan) talks about family background, occupation of father; describes domestic routine - clothes washing, sleeping arrangements, cooking, bread baking; soup kitchens during miners' strikes; Chapel; birthdays (food); Christmas; language; Sunday School Anniversaries - concerts; outings to Barry, Porthcawl, Aberavon; politics; working career (including nursing); families moving from area to London, Birmingham; Stay-In strike of 1934; strikes of 1921 and 1926; soup kitchens; attitudes to debt; Co-op credit scheme; day off before holiday break (occupational custom). [Tr. 2] Mary Wood (born Treherbert, Glamorgan), talks about her family; World War One; Rhondda cake; recollections of the childhood home; broth and bread making; cow herding/feeding; Chapel; Sunday School; self sufficiency during strikes; trip down mine with future husband. [Tr. 3] 3 of 5.
Metadata
| Identifier | y335npf8 |
| IRN | 414111 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A061 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/y335npf8 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Crook, Rosemary |
| Date | 9 January 1980 |
| Size and Medium | 1 audiocassette., Duration: 67' 22". |