| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/136 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">South Wales Colliery Managers and Officials Study</title> |
| Interview of Hicks, Henry Royston |
| Second South Wales Coalfield Project 1979-82 |
| Description | <list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list> |
| <p>Recorded memoirs of Royston Hicks, Central Coalfield Surveyor. Includes the death of his father in an accident underground; his education and political background; nationalisation of the coal industry; transfers of men from Cilely Colliery; differences between Lewis Merthyr and Lady Windsor Collieries; development of the South Wales Coalfield; his opinion of pit closures; development of 'super' pits; safety and contractors; and utilising the sterilised reserves in the Rhondda</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Hicks</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Henry Royston & Fox</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Surveyors</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Ocean Coal Company Limited & Labour Party & National Coal Board & National Union of Mineworkers & Lewis Merthyr Lodge & Ty Mawr Lodge</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Wattstown</emph><emph altrender="county">Rhondda</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Lady Lewis Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Rhondda</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Lewis Merthyr Ty-Mawr Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Rhondda</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cilely Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Tonyrefail</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Treforest School of Mines</emph><emph altrender="county">Pontypridd</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Lady Windsor Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Ynysybwl</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Abercynon Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Abercynon</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">National Collieries</emph><emph altrender="county">Tylorstown</emph><emph altrender="parish">Rhondda Fach</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Explosion, Lewis Merthyr Colliery 1956</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">World War II 1939-45</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">fatal accidents </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">football </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">army </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War II </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">training </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">safety </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">internal coalfield mobility </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">contractors </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial relations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">washeries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">explosions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial diseases </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">safety </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">development </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1930 = 1980 (c) |
| 17.3.1981 |
| Related Material | <archref linktype="simple"><extref linktype="simple"><emph altrender="filename">WXYZ</emph><emph altrender="identity">loan copy : Miners Library</emph></extref></archref> |
| Physical Description | good |
| Extent | no of tapes : 2 |
| Language | English |