| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/199 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Local Leaders Study</title> |
| Interview of Lake, Will |
| First South Wales Coalfield Project 1972-74 |
| Description | <list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list> |
| <p>Recorded memoirs of Will Lake, Fforestfach. Includes the different jobs undertaken while working underground, and working methods; evening classes taken; closure of Garngoch No 2; issue of dirty coal; the custom of only filling eight trams of coal a day (until 1926); his sisters were domestic servants; removal of horses from the colliery during World War I; physical training in the army, and his army service in World War I</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Lake</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Will & Morgans</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Boys, Collier & Colliers & Firemen & Domestic Servants</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers & South Wales Borderers Battalion & Second Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Fforestfach</emph><emph altrender="county">Swansea</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Garngoch Collieries</emph><emph altrender="county">Gorseinon</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tirdonkin Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Morriston</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">World War I 1914-18</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">adult education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">ventilation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">hours of work </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">women </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War I </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">horses </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">army </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">conscription </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">rugby </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1900 = 1973 (c) |
| 4.2.1974 |
| 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 : 1 |
| Language | English |