| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/20 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Lodge Officers Study</title> |
| Interview of Bowden, Thomas George |
| 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 Tom Bowden, Britannia Lodge Secretary, of his career in various collieries. (Pengam, Brittania, Longbourne). Includes working conditions; lodges and union activities; effect of pit closures in the area; innovations at Brittania Colliery; productivity schemes and deals; experience of strikes, including 1972 and 1974; and changes in social views of the community</p><p></p><list><item><persname role="brittania lodge secretary"><emph altrender="surname">Bowden</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Thomas George</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname></item><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Hodges</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">George & Jenkins</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname></item><item><persname><emph altrender="surname"></emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename"></emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Lodge Secretary</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers & National Coal Board & Labour Party & Brittania Lodge</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bargoed Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Bargoed</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Pengam Housecoal Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Pengam</emph><emph altrender="parish">Blackwood</emph><emph altrender="township">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Britannia Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Pengam</emph><emph altrender="parish">Blackwood</emph><emph altrender="township">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1972</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1974</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">training </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">housing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">cycling </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dancing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">judo </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">coal owners </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit-head baths </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">power loading </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">mechanisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pickets </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit conditions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1945 = 1982 (c) |
| 5.3.1980 |
| 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 |