| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/214 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Abercraf Community Study</title> |
| Interview of Davies, Penry |
| 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 Penry Davies, Abercraf. Includes experiences of working in a barbers, butchers, and as a telegraph boy; first working in the pit; visit to London on a tour of inspection, compared with Mountain Ash; the influx of Irish to Mountain Ash; his family moved to Cwmamman; and tours to continental collieries to observe differences and comparisons with collieries in South Wales</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Davies</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Penry & Davies</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Boys, Collier & Colliers & Measurers</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">South Wales Miners Federation & Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Abercraf</emph><emph altrender="county">Powys</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Mountain Ash</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cwmcynon Pits</emph><emph altrender="county">Mountain Ash</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cwmaman Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Cwmaman</emph><emph altrender="parish">Aberdare</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cwmneol Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Aberaman</emph><emph altrender="parish">Aberdare</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">London</emph><emph altrender="county">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Deep Navigation Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Treharris</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1898</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Explosion, Cwmaman Colliery 1911</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Riot, Aberaman 1910</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">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial injuries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">transport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">eisteddfodau </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">explosions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">riots </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">migration </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">internal coalfield mobility </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1898 = 1973 |
| 20.10.1973 |
| 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 |